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.