To some Star Wars fans, Episode IV: A New Hope was the best Star Wars film ever made. It was the first one, made by George Lucas, and it launched the passionate followed by enthusiasts around the world. In the first hour of the film, the setting is in a vast desert on the Planet Tatooine. There, Luke Skywalker discovers he is more than just a farmer boy shooting womp rats for fun, Obi Wan is brought back to jedi action and Han Solo lays low from slug gangster Jabba the Hutt. So the question looms, what’s happened to Tatooine now? [Read more...]
Visual Bits #427> Pop Art Keepin’ It Real: Funny & Cool
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Visual Bits #399 > What If All Art Was This Awesome?
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Visual Bits #397 > How It Was Back Then: A Vintage Era
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Hand-Painted Russian Nesting Dolls- Star Wars Style
If you love collecting Star Wars memorabilia, but are running out of space, then you will love this new collection by Andy Stattmiller. The San Francisco based illustrator/graphic designer has hand-painted these amazing sets of nesting dolls- 8 characters each that fit perfectly inside one another. He has one set for the good guys, and one for the dark side. The largest figures, Chewie and Darth Vader, are 8″ tall and the smallest, R2D2 and Jawa, are just 0.75″ tall. Stattmiller chose to use only characters from Episode IV A New Hope. [Read more...]
Visual Bits #385 > Make It, Mix It, Mash It: Movie Art
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Pop Culture Icons Know That Feel, Bro
No matter what you’re going through, there’s always someone out there who has been there before. For every pop culture icon with a problem, Chris Gerringer finds the perfect friend for them to lean on. The series, called I Know That Feel, Bro, shows us that even superheroes have bad days, but you’re never alone. If Beaker gets sad that he’s the only unintelligible Muppet, he can hug it out with Chewbacca, for he really does “know that feel, bro.” Maybe if Kermit the Frog had befriended The Incredible Hulk sooner, the classic song “It’s Not Easy Being Green” would have been a duet. Check out more illustrations by Chris Gerringer on DeviantART.
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Recycled Records Become Vinyl Silhouettes
While some might cry sacrilege at the butchering of precious records, Tamás Kánya of Hungary has transformed the vinyl into silhouettes that are pretty flippin’ awesome. From Batman to Michael Jackson to Star Wars, Kánya’s vinyl figures seem to be emerging from each record on the striking yellow background. The artist is very handy with sharp tools and recycled materials; he has also created some incredible miniature airplanes out of beer cans. See more of the vinyl silhouettes and his other creations on Kánya’s deviantART and Flickr pages.
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Star Wars Travel Posters in the Style of the WPA
Back in the late 30s and early 40s the US Government spent an unprecedented amount of money furthering the arts as an effort to boost the economy during the Great Depression. Out of the Federal Arts Project branch of the Works Progress Administration came some of the most beautiful posters ever created for our National and State Parks, screen printed in the art deco stylings of the day. Now, Steven Thomas is channeling that gloriously creative time, creating travel posters for the famed Star Wars galaxy. [Read more...]
Starwarigami: Make an X-Wing and Others from Paper
Few things excite the inner Star Wars fan more than the vehicles of that galaxy long ago. Martin Hunt is one of those fans and has spent a considerable amount of time re-creating everything from X-Wings and Tie-Fighters, to AT-AT’s and the Millennium Falcon itself. Hunt has been progressively improving his designs, adding more and more details. His X-wing, which began as a fairly simple design, now sports a cockpit, defined engines and wingtip cannons. It’s so impressive he’s imagined these designs out of one piece of paper, you would think he almost had… the Force… [Read more...]















