Onelargeprawn36-year-old cartoonist/illustrator Dave Perillo draws inspiration from the retro stylings from the 50s and 60s. From cartoons and comics to TV and film, Perillo’s pop art character designs are drawn with simple lines and flat colours. He goes under the name of Montygog on DeviantART, have a look at some of his work after the jump.
Vans don’t exactly get a lot of air time in movies do they? Sure, a couple of hippies rode around in a van in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre but it didn’t really end too well for them. There was the Mystery Machine in Scooby Doo and while the A-Team’s GMC van may have a special parking space in pop culture, there hasn’t really been much else, has there?
Graphic designer Brandon Ortwein is championing the cause of the humble van in a new image series where he takes vehicles from famous movies and re-imagines them as vans. Have a look at his some of the images from his It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van series after the jump.
Most of us guys have secrets. Hygiene habits, a man-crush, fetish, and a track/song that nobody else knows we love, that we dance to alone. Mine is “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins. I don’t know what it is about this track but it always makes me wanna dance or tap my feet when I’m with company. So when I came across a movie mashup with this song as the soundtrack I had to share.
So tap your feet or just get up and cut loose to this awesome video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYL3j27sSH8
If you’ve not had the bestest of starts to the day, maybe this will cheer you up. You may recall the past works of Pogo (refresh your memory); This time, he has used his musical wizardry to create a fantastic mashup made up entirely of different sound effects from Disney’s 1937 classic, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Check out his remix, Wishery.
Download the remix on his website, pogomix.net.
[via The Awesomer]
I first heard about Tom Lowe in April thanks to a tweet from Pieterjan Grobler (we call him Krypty). I happened to find out today, again courtesy of Krypty, that the ace filmmaker and 2010 astronomy photographer of the year (his winning photo, Blazing Bristlecone) has just released some more footage debut film, “TimeScapes”.
Lowe uses Canon and Red MX cameras and mixture of slow-motion and time-lapse photography to create some of the most amazing scenes from the American Southwest. Have a look at this latest piece, TimeScapes: Rapture below.
More about Lowe’s project can be found at Timescapes.org and you can follow him on Twitter.
[via Krypty]
I’m sure there have been a few times where you’ve come back from watching a movie, scratching your head and wondering why (or how) it ended the way it did. No Country for Old Men pops into my mind – for such a suspenseful film, I was hoping for more of an ending than the anti-climatic rambling I witnessed. I’m told the movie ends as Cormac McCarthy’s novel tells it and while one shouldn’t mess with the works of Pulitzer Prize winning authors, sometimes I wish movies had more satisfactory endings.
That’s the idea behind Howitshouldhaveended.com who have been re-imagining alternate endings for popular movies since 2005. The results are quite humorous and one of my favourites is for The Lord of The Rings, where the solution to the problem is so elegant and simple. Check it out below.
And hit the jump to see a few more of our favourite “How It Should Have Ended” parodies.
In February 2004 the Internet was irreparably changed, and depending on which side of the fence you sit, it was either a good thing or the ruin of basic human interaction. I fall squarely in the latter group, as I feel Facebook has skewed the basic principles of what defines a friend and how we communicate. It is a phenomenon which has taken the most ardent critic by surprise, me included. Although it would be foolish to ignore the 500 million odd users that would instantly vaporise should anything happen to their lives profiles.
So like all things popular and fashionable, a movie just had to be made about Facebook. My initial reaction was one of trepidation, as the idea of watching some varsity student plugging away at his code holed up in a dingy dorm room isn’t appealing. Guns, explosions, and gratuitous nudity are always surefire winners. The Social Network, by the looks of the trailer, will actually be a good watch despite it’s lack of mindless douchebaggery.
The Social Network is a movie which follows the birth of Facebook and the trials and tribulations that moulded it to what it presently is. The protagonist Mark Zuckerberg is played by Jesse Eisenberg, who has lent his talents to off-beat movies such as Adventureland, Zombieland, and The Village. Justin Timberlake also appears in the movie as Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster, which I must admit I am curious that he was cast in such a role. He is not exactly the first typecast that comes to mind in context of all things webbified. As long as he doesn’t sing or dance, it shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
Some interesting and some not-so-interesting facts about Facebook after the jump.
On a side note, Mark Zuckerberg was involved in some dubious shenanigans, which does make me question Facebook’s privacy policies. Wikipedia gives the low-down.
Whether one likes it or not, Facebook has changed the way people interact digitally, and probably for generations to come. Whatever happened to plain old email correspondence?
The Social Network releases in South African cinemas on November 5th.
[reference: Facebook facts]
Like vanilla ice cream and crunchy peanut butter, here’s another great duo of mashups for you to digest. In the first clip AC/DC rock out against Venkman, Stanz, and Spengler in Thunder Busters and then sumo wrestling is made less boring through the use of Anime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiH1wNmZTII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5LF8dwd-8
[via The Awesomer]
We have a double rainbow of awesomeness for you today. One of the two trailers you’ll see is completely fake (and awesome), the other is very real (and also awesome).
In the mashup trailer TRON: Lebowski, the dude travels to a strange and dangerous digital universe. And in Enthiran (The Robot), the most expensive Asian movie ever made, a mad scientist creates a robot with a Pentium processor. The robot falls in love with Aishwarya Rai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xna86ZeHJR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXHveyzUvY
[via The Awesomer | GeekTyrant]
In his 37 Posters series, graphic designer Jerod Gibson creates minimalist movie posters and enhances them by adding the famous quotes from the movies to the silhouetted designs. He has made 12 typographic movie posters thus far – have a look at them after the jump.
