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Artist Tony Ruth has turned Richard Scarry's BusyTown into the Silicon Valley inspired BusinessTown. (via)
Richard Scarry is right up there with Jim Henson as Effing Brilliant.
posted by Melismata at 2:05 PM on January 22, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Melismata at 2:05 PM on January 22, 2015 [4 favorites]
where the hell is lowly
lowly or gtfo
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 2:09 PM on January 22, 2015 [15 favorites]
lowly or gtfo
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 2:09 PM on January 22, 2015 [15 favorites]
I also like the Tom The Dancing Bug version.
TheWhiteSkull
I love that the professional celebrity cat is the only one wearing no clothes.
posted by Sangermaine at 2:11 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
TheWhiteSkull
I love that the professional celebrity cat is the only one wearing no clothes.
posted by Sangermaine at 2:11 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
lowly was in the first one, the brogrammers.. Needs more goldbug ..
posted by k5.user at 2:15 PM on January 22, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by k5.user at 2:15 PM on January 22, 2015 [4 favorites]
TEDx Okoboji ?
Okoboji is an actual real place!
Good pheasant hunting, most years.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 2:18 PM on January 22, 2015
Okoboji is an actual real place!
Good pheasant hunting, most years.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 2:18 PM on January 22, 2015
The Information Architect kinda looks like Huckle Cat. I'm guessing Sally Cat's omission is intentional and meant to be pointed commentary.
posted by pziemba at 2:22 PM on January 22, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by pziemba at 2:22 PM on January 22, 2015 [2 favorites]
I want to see Mr. Frumble in these. And Bananas Gorilla. And the beggars. (I am reading a lot of Richard Scarry these days, with twin 3-yr old boys)
posted by Emanuel at 2:23 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Emanuel at 2:23 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
I looked at all of these and then my fist transformatively disrupted my monitor.
posted by backseatpilot at 2:25 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by backseatpilot at 2:25 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
... and also, somehow work in how he PC-ified his books in reissues by, for example, adding pink bows to some construction workers to make them female.
posted by Emanuel at 2:26 PM on January 22, 2015
posted by Emanuel at 2:26 PM on January 22, 2015
lowly was in the first one, the brogrammers
oh yeah
hey lowly
lowly your my favrit
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 2:37 PM on January 22, 2015 [7 favorites]
oh yeah
hey lowly
lowly your my favrit
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 2:37 PM on January 22, 2015 [7 favorites]
Other awesome things by Tony Ruth - some of the Farm Team Apparel designs and pretty much anything Lunchbreath.
posted by true at 2:47 PM on January 22, 2015
posted by true at 2:47 PM on January 22, 2015
Oh no, Lowly worm has become Bro-ly worm
posted by Flashman at 2:59 PM on January 22, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Flashman at 2:59 PM on January 22, 2015 [10 favorites]
lowly was in the first one, the brogrammers.. Needs more goldbug ..
Ah, dude? He goes by his new name now: BitCoin.
posted by Chrischris at 3:02 PM on January 22, 2015 [3 favorites]
Ah, dude? He goes by his new name now: BitCoin.
posted by Chrischris at 3:02 PM on January 22, 2015 [3 favorites]
Being this angry at cute animals is a very uncomfortable feeling.
EXTRA YES
posted by louche mustachio at 3:20 PM on January 22, 2015
EXTRA YES
posted by louche mustachio at 3:20 PM on January 22, 2015
oh yeah
hey lowly
lowly your my favrit
I'm getting a little worried that this is sliding into lowly worm slash....
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:41 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
hey lowly
lowly your my favrit
I'm getting a little worried that this is sliding into lowly worm slash....
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:41 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
Needs more goldbug ..Ah, dude? He goes by his new name now: BitCoin.
Really? I thought it was something like Gencius.
posted by zamboni at 3:53 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
This reminded me of the 21st Century Jobs version...
posted by JoeXIII007 at 3:56 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by JoeXIII007 at 3:56 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
JoeXIII007: Indebted soft-drink dispenser to TheWhiteSkull.
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:16 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:16 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeah Ruben Bolling (of Tom the Dancing Bug fame) pretty much doesn't think (really, he doesn't) that this is a coincidence...
posted by tractorfeed at 4:54 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tractorfeed at 4:54 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
Emanuel: I want to see Mr. Frumble in these. And Bananas Gorilla. And the beggars. (I am reading a lot of Richard Scarry these days, with twin 3-yr old boys)
I don't know if it has a name, but the deranged-looking dog with the trench coat bearing the message "drink water" deserves his own book for certain.
posted by dr_dank at 4:56 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
I don't know if it has a name, but the deranged-looking dog with the trench coat bearing the message "drink water" deserves his own book for certain.
posted by dr_dank at 4:56 PM on January 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
I so had my heart set on a complicated crowd scene I couldn't help but be disappointed.
posted by Zed at 4:58 PM on January 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Zed at 4:58 PM on January 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
Needs a full page open office spread, with moar Hilda Hippo. Lowly is so obvs the data scientist.
posted by benzenedream at 10:28 PM on January 22, 2015
posted by benzenedream at 10:28 PM on January 22, 2015
The Digital Prophet really does have hair like that.
posted by PenDevil at 12:01 AM on January 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by PenDevil at 12:01 AM on January 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I just realized that was Shingy. What a tool.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:32 AM on January 23, 2015
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:32 AM on January 23, 2015
I dunno, if he were *really* channeling Richard Scarry, those brogrammers would be driving a banana or a ping-pong paddle or something.
posted by the_blizz at 12:23 PM on January 23, 2015
posted by the_blizz at 12:23 PM on January 23, 2015
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