Monkey by rocket… to Mars

Monkeys are braver than humans.

This monkey is not the one going, but Russia may be planning to send a monkey to Mars. They'll first test how well they do for long periods in a space suit with a robot cleaning up after them. Monkeys and robots to Mars first! Maybe NASA will send a human.

Read more about it.

Monkey by Rocket… and hot chick too

Sketch by Rik Rocket.

A friend posted this sketch on Facebook today. You may not notice at first that there's a monkey in this drawing. Keep looking. Get a better look.

©1999-2010 Rik Rocket.

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Flying Monkeys aren't just for Oz anymore

Label from Flying Monkey Patisserie in Philadelphia.

A friend recently posted pictures from his birthday on Facebook. They included cupcakes from Flying Monkey Patisserie and this very cool label and logo.

Their website is very well-designed. I hope to try something from there if I'm ever in Philly!

Karate Mon-kid

An amusing blurb of a story about a couple of monkeys who jumped their trainer.

Paint your own fence, sensai.

Strange unidentified monkey

I found this strange, unidentified monkey buried in my phone pictures. Wish I had more to say about it. It obviously has some function I forgot about. Diaper storage? Who knows?

Nothing funny here

There's nothing funny about this monkey with cheese.

This cute little fella showed up in a Fark thread discussion. There seems to be a lot of love for monkeys there.

Monkey place settings

Monkey plates

Monkey bag, place mats, bowls, cups

It seems monkeys are making it into all kinds of merchandise. The bag is super-cute. Not so sure I love the art on the plates, bowls and cups, though. It's slightly awkward, but maybe that's intentional.

Monkeys recognize pals

Why shouldn't they? Monkeys would recognize pictures of their pals just the same as you would.

Yahoo science type story about it here.

Monkey see, monkey recognize!

Chintastic monkey

Here's a chintastic monkey on some kind of Hoppity Hop rip-off in a drugstore display window. Is that a Grinch giving me the finger?

Monster monkey dolls at toy art show

These monkeys were designed by Bianca Panzram.

I went to the MF Gallery opening of the 2009 MF Toy Show last night in Brooklyn, NY. There were lots of crazy toys designed by talented artists. I wanted to take everything home. Some of it was gross, some was cute, some was weird, but nothing was conventional, and everything was inspirational.

These simple striped monkeys by Bianca Panzram were my favorites.

Artists and studios included:

MF Toys

Cupco! (fun site!)

Jenny Harada

Moses Jaen

Ed Repka

Bianca Panzram

Aaron Tomkins

Bastet2329

Elmer Presslee (bonus monkey on the front page of the site)

EatYourChildren

Sara Lanzillotta - - - Monkeyhouse Toys

Aya Kakeda

Steven Lopez

Jaz Harold

Tyson Summers

Ciou

Fernando Carpaneda

Nikki Taylor (did I find the right artist here?)

Mary Doyle (bonus chimp on front page of the site :)

I'm thinking of heading back to buy a piece or two. I highly recommend it if you are into toys, in the toy industry, or just need to be inspired by some wicked art.

Silly monkey hat

This kid is bound to have siblings
who will use this against him in the future.

I needed some ideas yesterday, so I did a Google image search for "silly hat," and this baby with a monkey hat was among the results.

In case you want to buy this monkey hat, here's the link. It's at an Etsy Shop called Tip-Top Applesauce.

Here's the link for where it was found. A Blog called Upscale Baby.

And, of course, credit must go to the photographer as well. Blueberry Sky Photography. Nice work.

You've got monkey!

A monkey from AOL.

My sister-in-law emailed this to me wondering about the legality of posting the image on Millions of Monkeys. "It was on AOL this morning."

Hey, AOL, you're not gonna sue me, right?

Curious George Christmas

Merry Curious, from Christmas George ;)

Amazon is offering a FREE song from the Curious George - A Very Monkey Christmas soundtrack. For a limited time Christmas With a Monkey is a free MP3.

Click here for the free song.

Have a very monkey Christmas, everyone!

Infinite monkeys

Well, someone finally tried it… to a miserable, failing extent. Someone gave "infinite" monkeys a million years to type Shakespeare. In the short time they gave, and the few monkeys they used, they did get mostly the letter "S," so isn't that a start?

We need more time!

Read the full story at examiner.com.

:)

Man-Ape bottle topper

Gorilla-face bottle topper at Royale, a bar in Brooklyn.

One happy hour while enjoying a tasty martini at Royale in Park Slope, Brooklyn - NYC, I spotted this ape-man or man-ape bottle topper. Is it a bigfoot? Is bigfoot a monkey? So much to ponder.

Smoking monkey

A cigarette smoking monkey at Forbidden Planet.
[identified as Frank Cho's Monkey by Isaac Bidwell]

I make a point of stopping in Forbidden Planet every time I'm near Union Square in NYC. I don't know who the character is, but this vinyl monkey with a cigarette in his mouth was in one of the display cases.

On like Donkey Kong

"It's a backward apostrophe on Donkey Kong!"

I was just browsing in the comments on a Fark link, and ran across this image a farker posted.
It's on like Donkey Kong.

Monkey Mittens

Monkey mittens!

Someone left their monkey mittens hanging from a tree in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Valentine for Christmas?

Need an ugly Valentine's Day plush monkey for Christmas? This one is for sale in a local Brooklyn Drug store.

"Mother lode" gorillas threatened

Science Daily is reporting that the Wildlife Conservation Society says that western lowland gorillas living in a large swamp in the Republic of Congo are becoming increasingly threatened by growing humans activity in the region.

Read the full Science Daily article.

Mecha Kong or Kong's mechanics

King Kong's skeleton.

The original armature of the original King Kong (from the 1933 film) has sold at a Christie's auction for 121,250 pounds. Why, that's over 60 tons! ;)

Link to the Kong skeleton story at Australia's ABC.net.

When my friends get rich, can you buy this for me?

Duck! It's a monkey!

Plush green monkey.

Passing by the pet shop I saw that they changed their "display," and added a plush green monkey. It's apparently climbing over the fish tank to get away from the killer green duck right behind it.

Kuddly Kong

2 Varieties of krappy Kongs made of plush.

These plush Kong dolls were being sold for $4 each at a bargain store near me in Brooklyn. They were so cheaply made I thought it was worth it only to take a couple of pictures.

Angry T-shirt

Saw this poorly drawn version of the Family Guy monkey on a T-shirt at the Union Square Market in NYC this summer.

Chimpanzee T-shirt

Chimp silkscreen T-shirt.

I saw this guy on the subway more than a year ago, and asked to take a picture of his shirt. All I had was my phone camera, and I had no clue how to get the picture. My wife rescued me with instructions. I feel like a dork, it was so simple.

CG portraits

Jacques Defontaine's CG portrait.

This is a CG portrait done by Belgian artist Jacques Defontaine that I found in an artical on Noupe.com showing realistic computer generated portraits.

Below is another CG image by Olivier Ponsonnet from the same article…

Olivier Ponsonnet's CG portrait.

Gorilla Goes Ape for Christmas

Here's King Kong and the Rockettes celebrating the opening of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular atop the Empire State Building on Tuesday (11.17.09). I hope he's been practicing his high kicks!

Gothamist Link.

Soapy Monkey

My sister gave me this soap because it has a monkey on it. It came out of the dispenser as suds. We used it in the studio bathroom, and it was almost gone before I remembered to take a picture.

Chimpanzee funeral

Rest in peace Dorothy the chimp.

This image is from The Inquisitr. A chimp named Dorothy at a chimpanzee rescue center died, and all her friends and family watched in silence as she was buried :(

Link here.

Flying Monkey Costume

Is this what the Flying Monkeys looked like in The Wizard of Oz?

Found this bizarre image of a flying monkey costume from Germany. It comes from a list on the always unusual Cracked.com of The 30 Most Unsettling German Halloween Costumes.

NASA to start irradiating monkeys

All in the name of science, I suppose. Get your monkey-ass to Mars.

MSNBC article on why NASA will test to see how the radioactive environment of space impacts humans… or more accurately: how the radioactive environment of space impacts monkeys.

Or you could design a ship made of the stuff they put on your genital area when taking x-rays. That works, right?

Think Geek Monkey

Just placed an order at one of my favorite online stores ThinkGeek.com.

I forgot they have a monkey/brain theme.

Here's the monkey on my order confirmation:

Amazing Race 10/11/09: "Go Bananas" Challenge

Watch competitors in the Amazing Race 15 complete a challenge in which they must mimic a monkey's mannerisms:

Click Here to see the video.

:P

Just got this in an email:


I don't care if you lick windows,
take the special bus or occasionally pee on yourself.
You hang in there, sunshine-you're friggin' special.
Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad,
is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Today's Message of the Day is:
Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we're here, we should dance.


Cute. A bit rough around the edges, but the sentiment is nice.

Absinthe maketh the hearth gwow fonder

My cousin sent me this monkey he found on an absinthe bottle.

Monkey's Jewels

It's some kind of jewelry. I can't find a link on the page. BUT IT'S MONKEYS!!! :)

marcalary.com

Monkey driver

Tired of photo-enforcement speed traps? Just do what Dave Vontesmar does as inferred by me or implied by THIS ARTICLE.

Monkey artist

It's been a while since I've updated here. A fun project like this should not go neglected for so long.
Thanks go to Rik for finding this image in his Facebook friend's photo album

Cabo San Monkey

We spent a week in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We stopped in this hole in the wall for tequila shots. Monkey Business is an appropriate name considering the Cabo Wabo tequila we ordered tasted more like something slightly less expensive.

Blue Kong

A friend from college recently updated his Facebook with this picture. It’s a painting he did of a giant balloon gorilla that makes his home at a business not far from where I live in Brooklyn.

Here’s another painting he did of the same image.