Popular Culture

Awww c’mon you’re not even trying

Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery and that’s all very well and good until someone actually copies you and then you reconsider how flattered you are that someone would out and out copy you.
Of course if the effort is made to at least differentiate a little, deviate enough to show your mark [...]

My top five movie posters

I asked the question the other day on Twitter what everybody’s favourite movie posters of all time were and I got some fantastic answers, I also discovered some really inspirational poster designs.
So for the record:
My top five movie posters*
*subject to change
1. Batman / Ghostbusters

In fairness I am cheating a little with choice number one but [...]

Posted in Movies, Popular Culture | Tagged Batman, Darkman, Drew Struzan, Escape from New York, Ghostbusters, ID4, Jaws, John Alvin, Movie posters | 8 Responses

It’s OK you can tell me the truth about the Magic Eye 3D pictures now

OK so it’s been a few years now since the whole craze of hidden 3D images in those swirling mass of geometric colours and patterns that everyone used to go so excited about. I believe it was huge somewhere after the whole hyper colour t-shirt hysteria, of course fortunately my family didn’t quite have hyper [...]

Posted in General stuff, Popular Culture | Tagged hidden 3D picture, Magic Eye | 13 Responses

You decide what goes into the next ultimate awesome garage!

A while ago I did the illustration above, the most awesome garage in the world. I stand by my choices in this piece, these are the three cars I would most love to have sitting in my backyard and I’m pretty awesome so I know this stuff.
Of course some of you felt that there weren’t [...]

Posted in Illustrations, Popular Culture | Tagged Batmobile, cool, DeLorean, Ecto-1, garage, illustration, Mr Freeze, Pop Culture | 20 Responses

That thing driving me crazy, sorted.

A little while ago I posted the poster with all the pop culture weapons for everyone to guess and I felt I was only two off.
Well I wasn’t, I was about four or five off.
But I did get the fork from Army of Darkness which I think was pretty impressive.
It was very cool though because [...]