Archive for January, 2011The 2011 Best Picture Oscar Nominees in Lego By Alex Eylar
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
in Art, mashups, Movies & Culture, People, pop culture, Television, The Internet, Toys
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Film student Alex Eylar (whose work we’ve featured previously) is well-known around the interwebs for re-creating classic film scenes with legos. Now he’s given the same treatment to the 10 Best Picture nominees from this year’s Academy Awards. They are: Black Swan (first above), True Grit (second above), The King’s Speech, The Social Network, 127 Hours, Winter’s Bone, Inception, Toy Story 3, The Fighter, and The Kid’s Are All Right. Out of the five of those I’ve seen, The Social Network is far and away my favorite movie of 2011. What’s yours? Check out the rest of Eylar’s creations after the jump.
In response to Tuesday’s The United States of Shame map, Ilya Gerner, an obvious optimist, put together The United States of Awesome map. Check out the references & statistics used after the jump.
Artist James Birkbeck made himself up to resemble a self-portrait of ear-hater Vincent Van Gogh. Pretty cool! The State of the Web – Winter 2010
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
in Cartooned, geeks, infographics, Movies & Culture, pop culture, Tech, The Internet
Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal examines the state of the web in Winter 2010 with this set of predictably funny comics. Predictable because Inman, who was just interviewed by Mashable, has quickly become one of the best and most respected commentators about Internet culture on the Internet. (It’s all very meta.) Check out the rest of this series after the jump.
Some of the statistics and rationales (see full list below) the creators, Pleated-Jeans, used for this chart are a little bit suspect (not to mention thinking about what this all means is pretty depressing), but I like that they’ve applied Internet fail culture to the real world. We’ve all got some serious issues…
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Video Games vs. Real Life
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
in Art, geeks, mashups, Movies & Culture, Photography, pop culture, Toys, Turning Japanese, video games
In the photo series “Video Games vs. Real Life,” London-based graphic designer & illustrator Aled Lewis inserts classic 8-bit video game characters into pictures he’s taken from his travels around the world. Lewis also designs some deliciously geeky T-shirts, which are available to purchase on his website. Hit the jump to see Donkey Kong hiding in the Rwanda jungle, Koopa cruising around an unnamed beach in the Caribbean and four others.
In the warped mind of doll photographer Mariel Clayton, Barbie is a booze drinking, cigarette smoking homicidal psychopath that mutilates, dismembers and then hangs out with her victims, which are mostly Ken and other Barbie dolls. Check out a bunch more of these twisted dioramas after the jump. Woody Allen Has a Posse
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
in Cartooned, illustration, mashups, Movies & Culture, pop culture, posters
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