Movie posters by Riccardo Bucchioni

Batman Begins, Kill Bill, Ghostbusters, and A Clockwork Orange movie posters by Riccardo Bucchioni, who has more posters on display here.

*Previously: The Dark Knight has a new sidekick. And she's fabulous.

*Buy Batman posters at eBay.

Cheerful images from Kubrick flicks

Richard Perez interprets The Shining, 2001, and Dr. Strangelove. See also: King Kong, A Clockwork Orange.

*Previously: The Shining meets Star Trek.

*Buy 2001 posters at eBay.

One franchise to rule them all

Avatar, Twilight, Up, Up in the Air, Jaws, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Reservoir Dogs, and A Clockwork Orange all get mashed together for a Worth 1000 contest. Via.

*Previously: Up concept art.

*Buy Up toys at eBay.

Charon (link roundup)

Charon by Joanna Kosinska.

And a few more links:

1. Stephen Totilo lists his 10 favorite gaming moments of 2009, including:

You're Welcome (Demon's Souls): It is an amazing and terrifying moment to be carefully playing through a dungeon of Demon's Souls only to have some other player invade your game and rush you for the kill. Even better and more magical is the experience of getting a surprise re-fill of your health bar as a result of someone, somewhere else on Earth, having found a message you wrote into the game world, having decided that message was helpful and giving it a thumbs up. You indirectly helped someone in a game and now, right when you needed it and had no idea it was coming, you get the "thank you" in the form of a health-bar refill.

2. A detailed theory that Kubrick faked the moon landing for the US. It's all somehow tied in to The Shining. For example:

Room 237: In King's novel, the haunted room is numbered 217. In the movie, it's 237. Why? "Because the average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 237,000 miles." It's actually 238,857 miles, but close enough, right? Weidner proposes that the haunted room represents the filming of the faked moon landing itself. "It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real."

3. Not for the squeamish - - how to dissect and mount a mouse for study.

*Previously: Charon has downgraded his ride.

*Buy conspiracy collections at Amazon.

The Shining, anime-style

Anime-style version of The Shining by Patches, who welcomes commissions.

*Previously: Kubrick-themed art show.

*Buy The Shining posters at eBay.

Kuma Combat King (and more)

Recent posts at Toycutter, my custom toy blog include:

1. A Clockwork Orange Playmobil figure.

2. Zero Suit Samus action figure.

3. Optimus Prime as a locomotive Transformer.

4. Roland Deschain at The Black Tower action figure.

5. Kuma from Afro Samurai Combat King.

*Buy custom action figures at eBay.

Stanley Kubrick-inspired art show

The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin is currently featuring a group art show called Stanley Kubrick: Taming Light. The picture you see above is by Annie Atkins. Lots more beautiful imagery at her site including...Little Red Riding Hood with a metal detector?



*Previously: The Shining poster.

*Buy Little Red Riding Hood toys at eBay.

Things Richard Perez Likes; 2001 poster

"Things I Like" and 2001 posters by Richard Perez. Here's his webshop. Via.

*Previously: HAL 9000 desktop wallpaper.

*Buy 2001 posters at eBay.

The Shining poster

"All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy" poster on sale at Last Exit to Nowhere, which also has this Overlook Hotel t-shirt on sale:



*Previously: Art inspired by The Shining.

*Buy The Shining posters at eBay.

Wampa Nose Art (link roundup)

The new Lego Republic Drop Ship with AT-OT features Wampa nose art. More photos here. I'd like to see a book of hypothetical Star Wars nose art. Something tells me Twi'leks would be popular.

And a few more links:

1. Hypnotic swirl animated gif (scroll halfway down).

2. Sports Illustrated airbrushed out Danica Patrick's tattoo because "The Swimsuit Issue emphasizes natural beauty . . . . The freckles are left on and, in this case, the tattoos came off."

3. Praise for Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. I haven't seen it since it came out, but I actually thought it was pretty good. Via.

4. Jerry Brown's "25 Random Things About Me" list is interesting and funny.

*Previously: Salacious Crumb nose art.

*Buy Star Wars Lego minifigs at eBay.

Poster for The Shining

The Shining movie poster by Tom Whalen.

*Previously: The Shining cuckoo clock.

*Buy The Shining movie posters at eBay.

Jack Torrance's first novel finally published

The official description:

Jack Torrance's first novel, finally published after his untimely death at the Overlook Hotel.

"All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy is nothing short of a complete rethinking of what a novel can and should be. It's true that, taken on its own, All Work is plotless. But like the best of Beckett, the lack of forward momentum is precisely the point. If it's nearly impossible to read, let us take a moment to consider how difficult it must have been to write. One is forced to consider the author, heroically pitting himself against the Sisyphusean sentence. It's that metatextual struggle of Man vs. Typewriter that gives this book its spellbinding power. Some will dismiss it as simplistic; that's like dismissing a Pollack canvas as mere splatters of paint."

Preview it or buy a copy here. Via.

Relatedly, check out this tremendously disturbing Polish movie poster for The Shining:



On sale at eBay. Shelley Duvall creeped me out way more than Jack Nicholson.

*Previously: The Shining Cuckoo Clock.

If Agent Smith had been fat

A Clockwork Orange and The Matrix are even bigger experiences in these ads for Pause Ljud & Bild, which I take to be high end home theater specialists. The ads are by Åkestam Holst. Via.

*Previously: Fat Sephiroth.

*Buy Matrix toys at eBay.

Art inspired by The Shining

Below are two works of art from the "Artwork And No Play" show at Phone Booth Gallery. Both are available as prints for $40.


"Wave of Mutilation" by Kevin Tong.



"Artwork and No Play" by R. Black.

Via.

*Previously: The Shining Cuckoo Clock.

*Buy books about Stanley Kubrick at Amazon.

Barack Obama, Edward Scissorhands, Clockwork Orange papercraft

A Clockwork Orange


Wonder Woman


Shakespeare


Edward Scissorhands


Andy Warhol


Doctor Octopus


Chewbacca


Barack Obama

Believe it or not, this is just a small sampling of the papercraft toys that can be downloaded here. Via.

*Find previously posted papercraft projects here.

*The Andy Warhol Museum Collection is 34% off at Amazon.

Killer robots and other art by Jimmy Pickering

Here's a few works of art by Jimmy Pickering currently on display at the "Nutz + Boltz: a robot show" at The Gallery @ Yummy in Oregon.



"myster-3"




"cogwork orange" (still available).




"Beef"

*Previously: Amanda Visell's Tic Toc Apocalypse.

*Choose from a large selection of Jimmy Pickering's illustrated books at Amazon.

A Clockwork Orange/Singing In The Rain Mashup

I don't know who created this, but it's a finalist in a contest being put on by Galleries One Nine Eight Eight and SomethingAwful, called Crazy 4 Cult. You can vote for one of the 11 finalists at this link.

*Previously: Ultraviolence has never looked cuter.

*Find vintage movie posters at MoviePoster.com.