1 Apr
Film, Read / Look / Listen
An Ode To Clash of the Titans: the Original
The Elf goes back to her childhood to celebrate a classic

How can I express my deep love of Clash of the Titans? The kitschy Ray Harryhousen Clash of the Titans with the mechanical owl and the silly SFX (I admit Pegasus flying through the sky looks pretty silly, in a beautiful sort of way) and weird jump cuts and Harry Hamlin’s big, fat pre-Botox-era lips? […]

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31 Mar
Art, Odds / Ends, Style / Design, Toys, Weirdness
Invading the Vintage: Star Wars & Kaiju Finally United
Franco Brambilla unites AT-ATs with UltramanFranco Brambilla unites AT-ATs with Ultraman

Franco Brambilla is an Italian illustrator devoted to all things sci-fi, and is one of the main illustrators of the Urania and Urania Collezione sc-ifi book collection. In 2007 he launched the Invading the Vintage series, which features cute aliens, Star Wars icons, Grandizer and other Shogun Warriors invading vintage postcards. Some of the best […]

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