As long as I've already gone on and on and on about what amused me in my childhood, I might just dip into that well one more time. It's relevant, I promise.
I'm a 30-something (well, not quite -something yet, thank you very much) male geek, so naturally one of the key components of my childhood was Lucas's Star Wars trilogy. (That's right, I said trilogy. As in three movies. As in there were not three more, and they did not drop the ewoks off at the pool all over my childhood, got it?) I have such weird specific memories of the flicks from when I was a little kid. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's charred corpses were really disturbing. Han getting frozen in Carbonite was confusing. And even then, yeah, I wasn't too sure about the Ewoks' contribution to the overall Star Wars oeuvre. But overall, man, I just got lost in those movies, and I wore the hell out of the VHS tapes that my parents had recorded the films on, off of HBO.
All this comes back to me lately as I mutter obscenities under my breath at the sides of Darth Vader's helmet.
The current project is an offshoot of something I've done before, typographical art created with memorable quotes from some of my favorite movies (one movie to a piece, natch.) Today's work-in process looks like this:
If what I'm doing here isn't immediately apparent, here's a closeup of old Sithy's chrome-dome:
That is the dialogue from Episode IV: A New Hope. Well, a portion of it. It'll fit. It'll all fit. I'll force it if I have to.Here's the part that made me stop for tonight:
Those raggedy-ass edges just won't do, but damn if I'm not going cross-eyed fixing the spacing line-by-line, word-by-word. We'll get there folks, but ol' Skahfee can't take any more for the night.
Inception tomorrow, Zuma beach on Sunday, and plenty of productivity in-between! Happy weekend, everyone!
Cheers,
S
I'm curious to hear what you think of Inception. I hear it's awesome and am anxious to hear your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteWow, that helmet is looking awesome so far. I *LOVE* your typographical art (dang you two are so darn creative!) and this one is just amazing so far. Someday I hope I can commission you to do one for me of my favorite movie, The Princess Bride. :)
I actually did a Princess Bride in the same style as Adam's Big Lebowski for Ginger last christmas.. I'll send you a pic on Facebook so you can see if it's what you have in mind.
ReplyDeleteOh, and Inception was unbelievably amazing. I'll give you a more thorough review later. :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Movie and TV show reviews are one of the major things I miss from our JAKKS blog. Of course, we rarely go to the movies anymore and we don't watch a ton of TV that isn't some kind of competition thing but I still miss that. The last movie we saw was The Last Airbender and it basically sucked a$$. I was so excited to see a martial arts movie since those are my favorites and I didn't realize this was a kids movie. So disappointing. We'll have to find a babysitter so we can go see Inception.
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