Pie Fight Study 2 (2008)

Study for Nickelodeon (2008)

Via

In the 1980s, video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.

Cujo (Lewis Teague, 1983)

In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies. When the posters were finished they were rolled up and taken on the road (note the heavy damages). The “mobile cinema” began to decline in the mid-nineties due to greater availability of television and video; as a result the painted film posters were substituted for less interesting/artistic posters produced on photocopied paper.

Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1991)

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Ich konnte bei dieser ganzen Tag anstarren.

Via Aber ist es Float?.

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Also worth mentioning is the sort of koan-like restraint aspired to by his bio, which I will now quote in full:

My subjects are chosen for what they are and how I might paint them.

Karate, 2009

Track and Field, 2009

Lake Chambers, 2006

A week of stuff we like

The Internet is a teeming mass of great stuff, and this week on BlogLESS we're going to share some of our favorites with you. This is our way of showing our thanks to the designers and artists who freely share their time and talent with us all. We'll get back to griping and talking about design ethics before November's out, but on this Thanksgiving week, let's rest our weary heads, count our blessings, and take time to enjoy the Internet's rich pageant.

— Paul and Nick (DLB)

Brandon Bird

I thought I'd start off this week with an artist whose paintings always give me a chuckle, California based Brandon Bird.

BAM THWOP by Brandon Bird

Pax Cybertonia by Brandon Bird

I am the night by Brandon Bird