Link Round-Up: May 4, 2012

Retro Futuristic Steampunk posters by Michael Murdock

13 Awesome Paper Crafts & Origami Designs

'The Avengers' Movie Poster Remix: Earth's Mightiest Women

Japanese painted manhole covers

We’ve all seen those vintage framed photos of portraits from the era of black-and-white photography. Here are a few that come from a world where costume crime-fighting and other hobbies are family traditions.

Link Round-Up: May 3, 2012

Mandalorian Pin Up by Dominic Marco

News: 'The Scream' fetches record $119.9M at NYC auction

'The Avengers' Comic Book Covers in the Style of History's Mightiest Artists

Beautiful Concept Art from Game of Thrones

The Game of Thrones Minecraft Project Is Getting More And More Spectacular

I'm sick of pretending. I DON'T "GET" ART. Wherein Vice's Glen Coco goes to a Tracey Emin retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery ... and gives up.

Link Round-Up: Peep Diaramas

13 Hilarious Peeps Candy Easter Dioramas

Cast your vote in the 2012 CNY Peeps Contest

Check out a gallery of the 2012 Mercury News Peeps Contest results

Epicurious actually has a whole series of Game of Thrones Peeps dioramas, including one of the incest scenes.

Hollywood Peeps: 15 Oscar-winning Films in Marshmallow

Marshmallow Peeps operating the Large Hadron Collider

"OccuPeep D.C." was selected by a panel of judges and voting journalists as winner of The Washington Post's sixth annual Peeps diarama competition. (Previously)

Peeps Invade The Hunger Games, Titanic, Bridesmaids, and More in Diorama Contest

Scott of Polite Dissent doesn't strictly create dioramas, but each Easter, he dresses up his Peeps up as comic book characters.

An homage to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"

Link Round-Up: March 26, 2012

Make your own Hunger Games cookies

with this tutorial from Not Your Momma's Cookie.

10 Steps To Stealing Your Way To Creative Success

17 Vintage Comic Book Covers Where Superman is a Complete Sociopath.

Frustro: the impossible typeface based on the Penrose triangle

Invisible Children's Web Strategist Gives A Crash Course In Going Viral

Stamen Maps are gorgeous, stylized CC-licensed map tiles that use OpenStreetMap data

The Sweatbox is "the documentary Disney doesn't want you to see." It documents the production of "Kingdom of the Sun," a re-telling of the classic story of the Prince and the Pauper featuring musical numbers written by Sting.  After creative differences tore the production apart, it was re-tooled into "The Emperor's New Groove," one of Disney's biggest flops. Rarely has the decline of an Institution been better documented.