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Gallery1988 has provided us with another exclusive look at one of the many art pieces which will be on display at the third annual pop culture art show Crazy4Cult 3D. Jeff Boyes has done a nice piece inspired by Luc Besson’s 1994 film The Professional, which starred Natalie Portman as a 12-year-old who is taken in by a Professional assassin (Jean Reno) after her parents are killed.
Click on the image above to enlarge. Gallery1988 will be selling limited edition prints of this piece at the show, which opens on July 16th and runs until August 8th in Los Angeles.
What if The Simpsons creator Matt Groening had animated Ghostbusters? Artist Dean Fraser runs a blog called Springfield Punx where he parodies some of his favorite stars and characters in the style of The Simpsons. Last week Fraser took on The Ghostbusters, and I just love the cartoon renderings of the classic film characters. Check out more, including the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, after the jump.
Cool Stuff: Jim Horwat’s Back to the Future Tribute
Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Our friends at Gallery1988 have provided us with an exclusive high resolution look at Jim Horwat’s awesome tribute to Back to the Future. Horwat created the piece fot the upcoming Crazy4Cult 3D pop culture art show, which takes place from July 16th to August 8th 2009. Above is just a zoomed in section. Check out the full thing after the jump.
Anyone who reads the site regularly knows that I’m a huge Back to the Future fanatic. Not only do I own a Flux Capacitor, a Hoverboard but I was born on November 12th — the same date as the infamous Hill Valley Thunderstorm.
This piece of art has so much wodnerful detail. I really hope that Horwat considers making one of these for Part II. And maybe there is a chance that Gallery1988 will make some limited prints of this piece of awesomeness available? We’ll keep you updated!
While we wait for another feature film (which is beginning to seem like it’ll be a while) David Lynch is making and releasing music. He recently was involved in the smoky cool project Dark Night of the Soul with producer Danger Mouse and musician Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse. Now, according to EW, he’s produced the music and written the lyrics to a record of guitar-based ’50s-style tunes called Fox Bat Strategy, which comes out June 30. Read More »
Cool Stuff: Lou Romano’s Color Script For Pixar’s Up in High Resolution
Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Earlier this month we featured some of Pixar artist Lou Romano’s amazing color script for Pete Docter’s Up. But at the time it was very low res, a broad overview of the color board. Romano has now posted high resolution scans of all of the panels of the Up color script on his official blog. I’ve included some of my favorite panels after the jump. As a color script is an overview of the entire movie, be warned that it not only contains spoilers, but is a giant spoiler.
Dan Meth has created a movie timeline for futuristic movies, proving that the future presented in sci-fi classics are rooted in alternatie parrellel universes. Check out the full timeline after the jump.
Amazon are now taking pre-orders for The Wild Things, Dave Eggers‘ novel “based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze“. The hardback is set to street in October, just ahead of the Where the Wild Things Are movie. Jonze’ film must be one of my most anticipated pictures of the year, and to think… well, to think how close we were to losing it for a while.
You might want the standard edition
Cool Stuff: A Preview of The Art of Tim Burton
Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Yesterday we told you that New York’s Museum of Modern Art was going to have an exhibition of the art of Tim Burton. The exhibition will include “over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career.” This event also coincides with The Art of Tim Burton book that Brendon wrote about in April. Read the the full press release here.
MOMA has finally granted us access to a sampling of the pieces you can expect at the show. Eight more images, available after the jump.
Cool Stuff: Back to the Future Courthouse Square Wedding Cake
Posted on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
In a 2007 edition of Cool Stuff, we profiled a wedding cake that featured the bride and groom on top of a DeLorean time machine. If you read the site regularly, you probably know I’m obsessed with Back to the Future. Yes, I own a hoverboard (don’t ask if it actually hovers), a flux capacitor, among many other geekarific tributes to the original film. I can’t imagine that many Brides would allow their Grooms to order a Back to the Future-inspired wedding cake. In fact, I thought the cake at the above link was going to be the only one I’d ever see. But another cake has emerged.
/Film reader Tony J got married a couple weeks ago, and his wedding featured a new Back to the Future-inspired wedding cake. But this time around, its not an edible DeLorean, but instead Hill Valley’s courthouse square. The cake was designed by Caryn’s Cakes in Atlanta, and the Clock Tower is made out of red velvet cake. More photos after the jump.
San Diego-based artist Philip Tseng has created a t-shirt design called Turtle Power! which is a realistic take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. TeeFury is offering the t-shirt for only $9. The catch is that the t-shirt design is available for 24 hours, and 24 hours only.
Imagine you’re a tin man, built without a heart. Unable to find a willing doner, what other alternatives do you have? Hold up an ambulance, of course! Threadless has a new Wizard of Oz-inspired t-shirt by Juan Carlos Bueno titled HEARTLESS which pictures this exact scenerio. Availanle in Orange, sized Extra Small to XXXL for $18.
Designed by Gimetzco, Dutch Southern’s “May the Best Prequel Win” T-shirt design shows the new battle between JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and the Star Wars prequels. Anyone who has seen that Wars prequels already know who won - Trek out Star Wars’d Star Wars. But this t-shirt shows the battle: Sulu vs. Darth Maul, Spock vs. Obi-Wan, Chekov vs. Jar Jar, Kirk vs. Anakin, Uhura vs. Padme, Scotty vs. General Grievous, Bones vs. Samuel L Jackson, and the Enterprise vs. the Death Star. Screen printed on an American Apparel teal tee, sized small to XXXL for $20.
