Celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with this 14-minute video of previously unseen animations by Terry Gilliam, who also explains the inspiration behind his work.

Monty Python's Flying Circus(1970)

This Geek Picture of the Day is pining for the fjords.

American actress Uma Thurman and British actor John Neville act in a scene of the 1988 movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, called Les Aventures du Baron Munchausen in French. Directed by...

With a development cycle nearing two years my game project is finally nearing its completion. With a hopeful release planned for April now seemed an auspicious time to announce the game. Titled 'Middens', the game is styled towards open ended exploration of a surreal sensibility. A formal battle system in a likeness to traditional RPGs is employed alongside a "knife effect" system making for diverse creature interactions. Some of the game denizens require a formal duel while others can be destroyed on the general map, whereas others are completely peaceful. General Info:Middens takes the perspective of an ambiguous drifter traversing a veritable x-zone. Roving its interminable wastes the nomad chances upona sentient revolver beside an ominous pile of remains. The pistol offers its exploit in exchange for a pledge of inextricable compansionship. Espousing to be the player's conscience the dubious weapon directs the drifter to a nearby outpost wherein the story further unfolds. Despite its appearance as a wasteland the rift is home to many strange denizens---some volatile and others ineffectual. Whatever their disposition the pistol represents the choice to engage them or to spare them. Offense and passivityboth have their appropriate times with rewards and consequencesbeing granted to both paths respectively.--------I have created a Tumblr dedicated to the game that exhibits screens, concept art, original music and will eventually house the download.Until then here's a preview of the game:

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

All Original Gifs from the Higher Depths of the Human Psyche and Other Such Shenanigans

While most kids watched all the latest Saturday morning cartoons, I watched my dad's archives of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The comedy sketch show appeared on BBC from the late-sixties to early-seventies featuring the legendary Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam. The six of them produced what to many, changed the face of comedy. Besides the sketches which you really need to watch to appreciate, some of my favorite parts of the show were the visual animation breaks that were solely on the shoulders of Terry Gilliam, early comic strip artist and the only American in the British surreal comedy group. Gilliam's style is unique and his crude, hilarious, animations gave the show a balance of brilliant sketch comedy and artistic stimulus to the viewers of Flying Circus. His conception has moved on since the disbandment of Monty Python after Flying Circus in the early to mid seventies and their last film, The Meaning of Life in 1983. As a film director, Gilliam has a very obscure, visual conception in his work. His latest film was The Imagniarium of Doctor Parnassus in 2009. Monty Python is a not only and inspiration to me, but a comfort. It's utter silliness gives me laughter and creativity when ideas are limited.

'Penny Dreadful' Costume Designer Gabriella Pescucci on Her Dreadfully Delicious Designs

‘How clever, how magical that looks,’ someone must have said. It was just desperation! View the Slideshow.

This Crayon d'Or prize-winning graphic novel is an incredible Terry Gilliam-esque fantasy tale, penned by the award-winning author of the acclaimed Valerian spin-off. Azimut features a host of quirky characters in a colourful fantasy world whose lives are turned upside down when the magnetic North pole simply disappears! Time and death are not what they seem in this world - old professor Aristide Breloquinte spends his time studying the peculiarities on his laboratory ship, fearful of the dreaded Time Snatcher! The beautiful Manie Ganza, who seems convinced that time is money, daringly robs and outwits the pompous rulers across the land. Add in an intrepid explorer who can't find North, and an aeronaut/talking rabbit duo on a personal quest for love, and you've got a fantasy adventure full of nonsense and excitement! Wilfrid Lupano spins a wonderful yarn of fun, flawed characters - who could've jumped straight out of the works of Lewis Carroll - on a spectacular adventure, with mesmerising art by Jean-Baptiste Andreae.

During an earlier post about film director Tim Burton, I mentioned that I had a story to tell about a former classmate at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, which Terry Gilliam & I attende…