Okay…SUNDAY March 1st is the last day to purchase subscriptions and Stout’s print/shirt for the Nakatomi Invitational!  On March 2nd, we’ll release the new combo- Jermaine Rogers’ “Rabbit Fighter” and Tyler’s “Nuclear Option” will be gone from the site for good!

So, in case you were wating…WAIT NO MORE!

Head on over to the NAKATOMI INVITATIONAL page to sign up, and get 6 months of awesome delivered to your house, along with the EXCLUSIVE Wood Variant of Tyler’s “Nuclear Option” print.

And, be on the lookout for Jermaine’s “Rabbit Fighter” print/shirt dropping on the 2nd!  NOTE- there will be a limited glow-in-the-dark version of “Rabbit Fighter”, of which we’ll only have 30 copies, and will first be offered to the subscribers (which are also only limited to 30)!  Don’t miss out!

-alexfugazi

Baby,

Don’t leave me. Please, baby. After all we been through? You know how much I love you. Can we at least still be Facebook friends?

Love,
Sir Hugs-A-Lot

PS: This is potentially really lame, but we started a Nakatomi “Fan Page” on Facebook. Will you PLEASE be our friend over on Facebook? We have like no friends so far and it looks really sad (granted it’s only be up for about a half hour). Search for “Nakatomi, Inc”!

PPS: The main added value of becoming our Facebook friend is that you can view The Vaults of Nakatomi, wherein we catalog and track our out-of-print editions, including the editions sizes, artist names, and print dates. We will be moving The Vaults to a real section of this web site in the next few weeks, but for now Facebook Photos is pretty kick butt.

PPPS: We would love to see some Nakatomi Merchandise in action! If you feel up to it, document your Nakatomi Wear or Poster being used. Then upload it to the Fan Photos application on Facebook. Some Ideas:

– Put a Nakatomi t-shirt on each of the showroom dummies in your living room… photograph them watching Grey’s Anatomy. Draw little tears rolling down their cheeks.
– Photograph your awesome teen punk / emo / whatever they call it / etc. band rocking out in the garage with a valuable limited edition poster print tacked to the wall behind them.
– Finally, will you please for the love of God video tape your grandma complaining about the modern world in a Video Werewolf t-shirt?

Love,
Biafrah

So, I cobbled together this here website using the graphic design greatness of Alex Fugazi and Ramrod (i.e., they designed the graphics and layout and I made it all work). For better or worse, I’ve been writing web sites since Netscape was the browser of choice, and Altavista was cooler than a Pets.com promotional t-shirt.

As a result I have some serious bad attitude about crappy-looking websites. While assembling my “Top 3″ list of the world’s worst-looking web sites, I had to eliminate some obvious broad categories. For instance, pretty much anything off Geocities or MySpace, personal web sites in general, and more or less any porn site are not included. That being said, the world’s third worst-looking web site is…

MySpace.com

As in, MySpace.com itself. In 2006, PC World ranked MySpace.com the world’s worst web site, but I was a little disappointed with their reasoning. It’s kind of a foregone conclusion that if you allow fourteen-year-old kids to write “web pages” using a crappy WYSIWYG editor, it’s going to be bad. Add on top of that retards posting 400 video comments and photo galleries, and you’ve got a browser-crashing nightmare. But the core problem is that MySpace totally sucks as a user experience, both in terms of look-and-feel, and usability.

Why the hell can’t the owners of one of the most valuable pieces of internet real estate hire some fucking web designers and usability experts? They’ve cheesed out lately trying to copy the greatness of Facebook on a feature-by-feature level, but it’s seriously like they don’t even use their own web site. Fuck you, Tom. As much as I hate Yahoo.com from a visual mess perspective, at least they’ve hired some real designers and written some impeccable UI components.

PoorDavidsPub.com

This one’s just kind of funny, and strictly regional to Dallas. I’ve seen some of the greatest music acts play at this place, from Guy Clark to Early Lines. This site has got it all! Low-res logo, spinning treble clefs and dancing music notes, a rainbow color scheme, and animated section dividers. The most ingenious part is probably the circa-1994 navigation consisting of “everything on one page”. The site has been the exact same for at least twelve years.

GoDaddy.com

With an advertising budget that large, there obviously must be something wrong. Coupled with a really awkward and uncomfortable name, their site is designed with all the panache of a Nascar fanpage. Oh wow, I just looked at the site and they actually do sponsor Nascar (there’s even a related video embedded in the home page). So, if you want to feel a little sick, visit godaddy.com, wait for all the crap to load… and take it all in: the very definition of “visual vomit”.

Leave your suggestions in the comment section!

After all this negatively, I guess I should get together a list of the world’s most prettiest websites. Coming soon!

– Biafrah Winfrey

In the future, Axel Foley’s corpse will be re animated to fight crime and put bannanas into quantum tail-pipes.  Unfortunately for Axel, only his head was cryogenically frozen.  Also, in the future, to save space- humanity has miniturized EVERYTHING.  So Axel has to fight crime with just his giant, unfrozen head…dragged around Neo-Beverly Hills on a trailer.

Proof-

Look at it.  LOOK AT IT!

The 15 year old in me has just died and went to heaven.  A heaven full of ladies in bikinis and robots.

Now, the 32 year old in me says…’Yikes.  Those ladies will live to regret that photo someday.’

Here’s more-

Get out of the way of the ROBOT!

Anyway, this guy has done a pretty rad thing, making a PERFECT replica of the classic Transformer DEVASTATOR out of Tonka Trucks.  That’s…pretty damn cool.  I mean, he could have cured cancer or something, but this is almost as cool.  This comes from the site KingBotz.com.  Now, it’s a site that looks like it’s from 1995, and it’s got totally annoying music that is impossible to disable (at least as far as I can tell) but the photos of Devastator more than make up for it.  He’s selling custom-built ones, but I could find no pricing, so that means it’s cheaper just to steal a CAT Front Loader from the local construction site and hum the Transformers theme as you “Devastate” the local mini-mall.  And by cheaper, I mean more awesome.  I’m sure the legal fees will far outweigh whatever he’s charging.

Which brings us to this-

I couldn’t help it.  I really tried.  I had this idea quite a while back, and just kinda sat on it.  Now that I’m working for Nakatomi exclusively, I have the means to make my every goofy whim a reality.  I can’t say that’s a good thing, but hey…if it wasn’t a good idea, it wouldn’t be still rattling around in my head right? Of course, the guy who invented ‘MC Hammer-pants’ probably work-shopped that tragedy for years before he brought it to market.

Anyway- this is a 3 color limited edition silkscreen print, limited to just 70 copies to the public.  Measuring 18×24 and signed and numbered by the artist, this is printed by D and L screenprinters.  There is a Glow in the dark version that is limited to 10.

‘Comprehensive Health Care is the Right of all Sentient Beings.’

That’s a platform I can get behind.  That platform also launches missles, so there’s that as well, I guess.

Boom!

-alex fugazi

Wow…February is the shortest month, but dang…that flew by. There is still ONE WEEK LEFT to get your hands on the Tyler Stout entry into the invitational series, as well as ONE WEEK LEFT to buy yourself half-a-year of awesome with our 6 month Subscription to the series. Every subscription gets you the super-rare limited edition Wood Variant of Tyler’s print, as well as first crack at every variant poster we release through the series.

Tyler Stout's first wood print!

All our variants will be limited to just the qty of subscriptions that are for sale (just 30…yikes!), so the only way to guarantee that you’ll be able to get your hands on those prints is to SIGN UP!

And,
On March 2nd, we will be releasing Jermaine Rogers’ T-Rex inspired entry into the series ‘Rabbit Fighter’-

And the Glow in the Dark variant of this piece will first be available to SUBSCRIBERS only, and then the MAILING LIST, and then the rest of you!  So my advice is…if you want to know when this guy is going to drop, at least get on the mailing list, eh?

Sorry for the hard sell, but I’m still getting emails from people upset they missed out on the last 3 in this series, and I want to make sure everyone who wants one gets one!

Tell your friends!

-Alex Fugazi