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Brandon Bird‘s contribution to the Beam Me Up: Star Trek Art show at Q Pop in LA’s Little Tokyo February 16 – March 1st, 2013.

David in the comments says:

It’s not a dress. Chief O’Brien is wearing a 1st season TNG unisex SKANT – which was intended for both female AND male crew members.

More info from Memory Alpha:

According to the book The Art of Star Trek, “the skirt design for men ‘skant’ was a logical development, given the total equality of the sexes presumed to exist in the 24th century.”

The uniform was used primarily by background actors, though “Encounter at Farpoint” featured both Deanna Troi and Natasha Yar in skant-type uniforms, the latter only briefly. While Troi got a new look entirely for subsequent episodes (according to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion the uniform was referred to as the “Space Cheerleader” look), Yar remained in her jumpsuit uniform for the rest of her stay aboard the Enterprise, never donning the skant after the pilot episode. Male crewmembers wearing the skant were only seen in few episodes, “Encounter at Farpoint”, “Haven”, “Conspiracy”, “Where No One Has Gone Before” and “11001001”, though the footage seen in the last episode was re-used from “Where No One Has Gone Before”.

The skant was primarily seen in the first season, appearing only four times, worn with black trousers, in the second season episodes “The Child”, “The Outrageous Okona”, “The Schizoid Man”, and “Samaritan Snare”. After that its final appearance was in the flashbacks during “All Good Things…”

Artwork by James Gilleard

Artwork by Dustin Nguyen

An “unfinished study” of Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza by Sam Spratt.

Plot: Lacking consciences because they were born during a solar eclipse, a trio of 10-year-olds embark on an indiscriminate killing spree. – imdb

[Wrong Side of the Art]

Made by ABVH

The website 419 Eater makes a hobby out of responding to email scammers and tricking them into performing ridiculous tasks. In this particular prank, posing as a church, they tell a man that they will send him a $352,330 donation, but he will have to verify his identity by sending them a photograph of himself in a very specific pose:

Here is the donation procedure in detail. Please read through it carefully, and if you agree to the terms of the church then we will forward you the agreement certificate.

1. First the Church of Fish, Bread and Wine will send you an agreement form to complete. This is a very simple form (attached), and only requires your name and signature.

2. Next you will have to send the church a photograph of yourself in the pose we describe below.

Once you have successfully completed the two requests above, the donation will be paid out to you IMMEDIATELY in the manner of your choosing.

Here is how we need the photograph to be posed. I will go through it step by step so that you fully understand.

1. You will need to gather a large FISH, a bottle of WINE and a FULL loaf of BREAD

2. You will need to sit in a chair.

3. You will need to place the FISH in your RIGHT hand.

4. You will need to place the bottle of WINE in your LEFT hand.

5. You will need to place the loaf of BREAD on your head.

Make sure you have both arms help out as far as you can.

6. Now get a colleague to take a photograph of yourself in this pose.

My good brother Rao, of course I fully understand that the picture request seems very strange, but as I have explained before, it is this very strangeness that will ensure to the Donation Committee that the image is not a forgery.

Here’s the result:

They then string the scammer along for a while, first telling him that the original priest who emailed him died in a car accident, then having a second character die in a church fire. The prank goes even further when they convince the scammer that since the original photo was lost in the fire, he’ll have to send another photo of himself, this time holding a fish with a sign that says “Sweet Baby Jesus and the Orphans” in the background.

You can read the entire email exchange, along with a multitude of other scambaiting pranks, over at 419 Eater.

via Mike Mitchell

Amazing how often this happens. Never step into the street mid-conversation.

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See more from Benoit Jammes’ cassette art series here.

[Fecal Face]

These are bumper photos from the December 13th, 1980 episode of SNL hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis.