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Paul Pope is a legend. As one of the leading comic book artists, he has worked across the Batman title as well as his own cult series, Liquid, injecting them with his quirky and dynamic illustrative style. He’s coming out to Australia to speak at this year’s Semi-Permanent Conference, which is taking place in Sydney on July 7 and 8. ‘The design community at large is a widely diversed, stimulating group of loosely-fraternal creative people’, he says. ‘And I am happy to be welcomed in. For SP, I will be showing a lot of my work from comics to rock tour posters and cd design. I am interested in highlighting the links between expressionism and pop art as it is seen in comics and by extension, 2D design. Designers can make anything look however they want. The crisis I see is in knowing what you want to say with your work. My entry into all this is through the narrative visual medium of comics and it is an area of interest to designers for different reasons. The talk I gave at Semi-Permanent NYC was along this line and it went over well. I also hope to have some brand new test animations based on my character designs and comics to be showing for this film. I find I have more in common with most designers than I do with a lot of cartoonists’. How did the Batman: Year 100 project go down? ‘It was fun at times, but I’d say it has been more like a protracted game of chess. It is hard taking such a familiar character as Batman and warping him to your particular vision. I found it to be much harder work than I expected’.
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The project of creative technologist, Casey Pugh, this full length version of the George Lucas masterpiece was created from multiple 15 second segments recreated from the original movie and submitted by thousands of Star Wars fans, which were then spliced together by editor Aaron Valdez to form the final product. Genius, as both a commentary on contemporary pop culture trends (there are references to LEGO, stop motion, memes and the like) and on the power of tapping your audience for quality material.
Filmmaker creates LEGO stop motion to propose to girlfriend
Now, this is one for the ages: back in 2010, Atlanta film-maker Walter Thompson created a jaw-dropping LEGO stop motion to propose to Nealey Dozier, his girlfriend of four years. The video took 22 hours of shooting and some 2,600 pictures to splice together, a small sacrifice to pay for years of happiness together. Right? Right! Oh, and she said yes. Bonus.
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Nerd-attack! Man, this TARDIS zipper robe is so much cooler than any Star Wars crap people are hawking this days. This is for the true gangsta nerd.
A little infectious lollipop rock anyone? Feel free to embarrass yourself singing along at the stoplight. If the other drivers give you that look, roll down the windows and spread the love.
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Now this is fun. This 3D watch dial actually jumps to life. The dial is a modern version of the 19th century art form of lithophanes: carved porcelain sheets that, when lit, deliver astoundingly detailed images. When the pusher is activated, the dial springs to life in 3D, with an LED light and afterglow effect. Read more
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