“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” In fact, it looks a lot more like the streets of San Francisco or Boston. Shutterstock in-house designer Jordan Roland has reworked the characters from the much loved film The Wizard of Oz, giving them a decidedly hip makeover. It’s almost like they’re too cool for Oz… [Read more...]
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You know those movie discussions you have with friends – the ones that last for hours, tracing the connections between characters from complex movies like the Godfather, Casino or Twin Peaks? Well, imagine if that conversation could be translated into a star chart like galaxy, drawing each social connection as a line between each character. What you’d have is something which looks a lot like the clever site MovieGalaxies. [Read more...]
In a series of colorful photographs for “Sport & Style” magazine, photographer Candice Milon captured the main wardrobe for some of the most famous characters in film. Each outfit is neatly folded on a solid colored backdrop to capture the essence of each movie through clothing. It’s like looking at what Marty McFly, Forrest Gump, or James Dean might pack for a trip. To see which movie each outfit and accessory set belongs to, scroll over the images. [Read more...]
Since its inception over 100 years ago, a curious and clear shift has been striking the movie industry, or more exactly, the industry of the movie poster. Over the last century we have seen the posters advertising each years films, both large and small, take a decided shift in hue towards two specific colors. We might not know this without the interesting and comprehensively compiled color charts created by Vijay Pandurangan, but thanks to his inquisitive and diligent work, we can now easily see which colors have steadily gained prominence in the movie posters of today compared with those created at the beginning of popular film. There are easily two winners: orange and blue. [Read more...]
When you were a kid in elementary school and it was time for art hour, often popsicle sticks and toothpicks were the medium. Later on, many of us spend less time in the realm of arts and more time being practical – like making it to the cubicle on time each morning. Whether able to find the time for a little right brain stimulation or not, adults often skip over Elmer’s glue and little pieces of wood to release their creative spirits. Danish artist Mark Nors Arnesen not only chose the time honored tradition of glue and little pieces of wood, he found time to turn 8,000 of those little sticks into a cover for a publication. [Read more...]
Coming to an ancient Turkish theater near you: Star Wars! As part of his graduation thesis, Murat Palta created this exceptionally entertaining series of movie themed illustrations based on motifs from the Ottoman Empire. His eastern take on western cinema is as interesting to look at as it is hilarious… it’s such a unique take on traditional cinema. [Read more...]
Love him or hate him, Quentin Tarantino weaves a pretty mean and engaging story… and in the case of his second major release, the now classic Pulp Fiction, that story is engagingly complex. You could watch the films drug abusing, law breaking crew a load of times and still catch small elements which pop out, unnoticed until the 3rd or 4th screening. Now, designer Noah Daniel Smith has put together an extensive timeline detailing the many intermingling paths of the film characters, tracing their moves through the film in chronological order based on the time each event happens, starting with the epic story of the gold watch and finishing up with a ride on Zed’s chopper. It’s an insightful look into the craft of cinematic storytelling. [Read more...]
While the Hollywood movie industry is famous for spending literal fortunes on their film fare and its subsequent promotion, not everyone has the means to promote movies with such gross excess: enter the lost art of the Ghana movie poster. During the boom of the video cassette in the 1980s, small-scale mobile theaters popped up around the sub-saharan country, providing entertainment as they passed through towns and villages. The showings often took place in social clubs, houses or outside in the warm night air, and sometimes only consisted of chairs, a generator, VCR and a television. To promote these shows artists were employed to create large, colorful posters and given full creative license to attract the viewing public… often with very entertaining, but less than accurate results. [Read more...]
When it comes to creating spot-on tribute paintings to our favorite movies, few do it better than Massimo Carnevale. His brush stroke heavy images capture so much life and vibrant emotion that they seem to give these much loved scenes even more impact and sentiment than the original films themselves. How is it, for example, that you can take one glance from the Back to the Future series and create such a poignant moment out of one that was probably lost to most viewers? This is talent. [Read more...]
