I’m always a big fan of unique LEGO builds, but this one is just jawdropping. And it doesn’t help that it’s based on one of my favorite flicks of the summer.
Created by flickr user “Profound Whatever”, aka Alex Eylar, this amazing Inception based hallway is just a beautiful piece of work, and is dead on to the source material.
I swear, there are just some things that make me think I’m on the wrong coast. Sure, I love being so close to DC, Philadelphia and New York, and the great opportunities for arts, music, performances and film that my location allows, but some days, I really wish I were in California.
Today, it’s once again due to the amazing art shows showcased at Gallery 1988. Fresh off of the amazing Crazy 4 Cult 4, they’re teaming up with the Autumn Society for The 3G Show.
What’s the 3G about? Why the three eighties staples – Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Goonies!
There is going to be a ton of great art to be showcased at this event, and there’s really no other way to showcase it than by letting you see it. So I’ve included probably the biggest gallery ever in this post. Go forth after the break and enjoy!
What’s my personal favorite of the show? That “Mogwai” LP is amazing, hands down. Although, Ghostbusters street sign is super classy. I think I’d want a tin version of that for my wall.
The show opens on September 3rd in LA, and goes through September 22nd.
The world of entertainment is full of interesting glimpses of alternate realities. Chances are, if there was something successful, someone will try to find a way to invert it. I mean, this is a trend that has been going on since Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead took a different look at Hamlet.
Some recent ideas following this train of thought…
What if Batman were a c*nt? Mark Millar’s Nemesis.
The latest universal inversion comes to us with deviantART user gotbob‘s look at an alternate GI Joe universe, where the Joes are Cobra and Cobra are Joes.
You can click the image above for bigger – personally, I think “Snake” and “Sgt. McCullen” are the best of the inversions. I’d love to see some more realistic takes on this concept…you hear that internet? TAKE THE CHALLENGE.
With just two days until Inception finally hits theaters, we’re getting a unique glimpse into the films world.
A 19 page comic has been placed online to Yahoo! titled Inception: The Cobol Job. Written and drawn by the amazing team at UDON, this comic can be viewed in a flash player in a really cool guided view mode (think comics on the iPad), or you can download a PDF for future offline viewing.
Personally, I love it, and it just takes my already fever pitched anticipation, and raises it up even higher! Click below to read it.
As you’ve probably gathered, I’m quite the LEGO fan.
While I don’t indulge in building custom creations anymore, I can still lose hours looking at some of the amazing builds of different creators all across the web.
This, however, may be the most amazing custom build I’ve ever seen.
Put together by Flickr user “Pepa Quin”, they went well above and beyond the call of duty, creating every major building from the Futurama series, mini-figures of every major character, and pieced it together in a jawdroppingly detailed diorama of New New York.
As a LEGO nerd and a Futurama fan, I cannot begin to describe how giddy looking at this makes me feel. Maybe someone at LEGO is seeing this, and we’ll see the real deal one day. I’ll buy it!
Far from the first time I’ve featured an amazing art show at Gallery 1988 (add this to the “places I want to visit” list), this may be the most stunning so far.
For the fourth year in a row, Gallery 1988 will be home to Crazy 4 Cult, an artistic celebration of cult classic films and general theatrical nerdity.
Scheduled to open on July 9th and be on display through July 30th, Crazy 4 Cult 4 should be the best one yet, a stunning complation of the work of over 100 artists.
These are just a few of my favorites of what’s on display, but you can click through to the original /Film article for dozens of other pieces, or if you’re lucky enough to be near Los Angeles through the end of this month, I highly recommend taking it in for yourself.
What would you do if you could travel back in time? Assassinate Marilyn Monroe? Go on a date with Hitler? Obviously. But here’s what I’d do after that: grab all the modern technology I could find, take it to the late 70′s, superficially redesign it all to blend in, start a consumer electronics company to unleash it upon the world, then sit back as I rake in billions, trillions, or even millions of dollars.
That’s the main idea behind ALT/1977, a graphic design project taking modern technology such as laptops, cellphones, portable video games and MP3 players, pushing them back 33 years, and giving them the unique look and feel of electronics of the time period.
Artist Alex Varanese really out did himself here, and I’m not going to lie, I’d buy a “Pocket HiFi” now.
Click through to see all his work, it’s really stunning, beautiful stuff.
