Years before the complaints from Flint's citizenry about their water provoked action from the state, Governor Rick Snyder spent $440,000 to supply better water to the GM factory, where the new water supply was corroding the car parts on the assembly line.
Michael Moore, perhaps Flint, MI's most famous son, has written an open letter to people who are heartsick at the thought of a whole generation of mostly poor, mostly black children being given permanent brain damage through lead poisoning, thanks to the deliberate indifference of the state's Republican administration and the greedy people who elected them.
If you've ever driven along Highway 280 in the San Francisco Bay Area, you've probably seen this home.
Pittsburgh has its robots and even Detroit has its dreams, but some rustbelt cities have nothing much left. Flint, Michigan.
LIFE photographer Allan Grant took 850 photos documenting Hanna-Barbera studios in 1960.
In Glenn Barr's new show at Cotton Candy Machine gallery in Brooklyn, you'll see his excellent seedy noir interpretations of Wilma Flintstone (above) and Judy Jetson (below), among other gorgeous new paintings.
Just 30 miles south of the Grand Canyon there's an even grander wonder of the world: Bedrock City. Established in 1972, this Flintstones-themed compound occupies 30 acres and has a gift shop, restaurant, RV park, and convenience store. The current owner is ready to retire and would like to sell the business for $2 million. — Read the rest
When you rule the world of "powder mages" you can do what you want. Brian McClellan wields his powder for good. In addition to delivering us the complete Powder Mage trilogy with the third book The Autumn Republic, Brian is going to bring us a second trilogy in the same universe, all while growing his own spaghetti sauce and keeping bees. — Read the rest
Would you like to be in a George R. R. Martin Book? Got $20K? Don't mind being killed? Good. You can help wolves. Also we give our first impressions of Brian McClellan's The Promise of Blood and talk Geekomancy with Michael Underwood.
The Beau Brummels guest star as the Beau Brummelstones on The Flintstones.
The good news is, this world has in it a thing that looks like an elaborate butter-knife, but is really a flintlock pistol. The bad news is, you missed your choice to buy it — it sold in Sept 2011 for $3750. — Read the rest
Just look at it.
(Thanks, Brian!)
[Video Link] As one YouTuber commented: "First time I've ever seen the Millennium Falcon next to a taxidermied fox." — Read the rest
Now *this* is some good ad creative! Ah, those were the days. (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!) — Read the rest
Cartoon Brew points to Screen Novelties' well-executed Flintstones stop motion short. — Read the rest
For a taste of what's in store for you when you camp at Bedrock City in Custer, South Dakota, check out the photo gallery.
Illustrator Patrick Owsley has been showing some of the excellent Flintstone's style guide art he's been working on. Here's a police truck he inked from pencil drawings by Mike Fontanelli and Mark Christiansen. The Flintstones vehicle art (Patrick Owsley)
Lars Haeh says
— Read the restThe pedal powered Flintstones car covered earlier on boingboing makes its way to court in Toronto today. Their lawyer, from the legal department of the Canadian Automobile Association thinks they will win. The highway traffic act does not categorize vehicles powered by muscle, friction drive, or wind as being "motor vehicles" for the purposes of the law.
A Boing Boing reader named Jason kindly sent me this copy of a fantastic book from 1965 called The Flintstones Meet the Gruesomes. The lively illustrations are by George De Santis. Thanks, Jason! Link goes to three photos of the book. — Read the rest
A couple of days ago John K's raved about an old Golden Book called Pebbles Flintstone on his blog, "All Kinds of Stuff." John said it was his "favorite Golden Book of all time, illustrated by the king of Golden Books, Mel Crawford." — Read the rest
