Thursday, August 15, 2013

New Trailer For '300: Rise Of An Empire'

60 seconds of Greek and Persian epicness!

'300: Rise Of An Empire' is out in cinemas March 7 2014.

Cool Art: 'Kes' by Nick Rhodes

'Kes' by Nick Rhodes is the new release from Dark City Gallery's British Cinema Series of prints. It's a 4 colour screen print in a limited edition of 100. It goes on sale soon, so follow @darkcitygallery on Twitter for news when it goes on sale.
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Cool Art: 'Bad Job Bub' by Tim Doyle

'Bad Job Bub' by Tim Doyle , a mashup of the Catbus from'My Neighbor Totoro' and another interwebs Meme - Lil BUB, is a new watercolour on paper painting for the Lil BUB art show and book signing in September at the Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco.

The print is a 20" x 16" giclee and is available in a limited edition of 150 copies, each print comes signed and numbered by the artist and costs $40.

Go here to buy.

As a special bonus, Spoke Art are offering both the 'Lil Bub' and 'Grumpy Cat' prints together for a discounted price of $70.
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Cool Art: 'Escape From New York' by Midnight Marauder

'Escape From New York' by Midnight Marauder.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

'Blade Runner' As An 8 Bit Video Game

8-bit Cinema "gamifies" your favourite Hollywood Blockbusters into 80's arcade and NES inspired action!

This week: 'Blade Runner' retold via old-school 8-bit (and a little 16-bit) game tech. No quarters or controllers required!

Cool Art: Gallery1988 (West) presents 'The OFFICIAL Edgar Wright Art Show!'

Gallery1988 (West) is proud to announce their upcoming show "The OFFICIAL Edgar Wright Art Show!"

This very special show features a huge lineup of amazing artists, all depicting their favourite scenes and characters from the films of Edgar Wright. To celebrate this show, Gallery1988 will have an exciting opening reception on Tuesday, August 20th from 7-10pm with several special guests you definitely want to meet in person!

The show will run through September 7th at Gallery1988 (West), 7308 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046.

Check out a preview below.

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Cool Art: 'Mako Mori' by Sherry X (symphonikaa)

'Mako Mori' by Sherry X (symphonikaa)

You can buy this 'Pacific Rim' inspired art as a print through her Deviant Art page.

Cool Art: 'Justice Magazine' Harley Quinn Covergirl Pinup by Stanley Lau

Stanley Lau is back with a new 'Justice Magazine' cover. This time with cover girl Harley Quinn.

You can check out Stanley's previous 'Justice Magazine' covers here.

Cool Art: 'Heat And Conflict' 'Predator' Variant Print by Chris Garofalo

'Heat And Conflict' 'Predator' Variant by Chris Garofalo

This variant features a thermal red colour scheme along with Glow In The Dark Ink! It's an 18" x 24" 3 colour screenprint, signed and numbered edition of 30, available first at a special screening of 'Predator' on August 30. Any remaining prints will be available in the QFS web store.

Follow Chris @QFSChris on Twitter for more.
Red Variant
Glow In The Dark Layer

Cool Art: 'Darth Heisenberg' by PJ McQuade

Breaking Bad's Walter White has gone over to the Dark Side, for reals. He is the one who knocks. He is the danger! Most importantly, he's in the Empire business.

This 'Breaking Bad' / 'Star Wars' mashup by PJ McQuade is available as a 13"x 19" full bleed, hand signed and dated giclée print on 300 gsm fine art rag with Chromolife 100 Archival Inks. It's also available as a slightly cropped 8.5" x 11" version for $20. He's also including a free 3" x 4" 'Darth Heisenberg' head waterproof sticker with every print purchased.

Go here to buy.

Check his website for up close print shots.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Cool Art: 'The Grandmaster' by Vania Zouravliov

Mondo will have a new print out soon for 'The Grandmaster' by Vania Zouravliov.

The poster goes on sale August 23. Follow @MondoNews on Twitter to find out when.

Check out the regular and Chinese language variant below.
Regular Edition
Chinese Language Variant Edition

Cool Art: The Films Of Kurt Russell by Chris Weston

These awesome posters by Chris Weston, are a private commission for a collective of film poster fans.
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Cool Art: 'Devastator' by Laurent Durieux

Acidfree Gallery's  latest Transformer print is 'Devastator' by Laurent Durieux. This is a 24″ x 36″ numbered 8-colour screenprint, limited edition of 184, and costs $65. The variant edition is printed with metallic inks and in a limited edition of 84 and costs $80.

They will also have a very limited number of the regular 'Soundwave' prints (the companion piece to the 'Devastator print') from the numbered edition that they held back just for this release. This is a 24″ x 36″ numbered 8-colour screenprint, limited to 275 and costs $65.

They will be on sale Thursday, August 15th at 12:30pm EDT (9:30am PDT).

'Devastator' Regular Edition

Cool Art: 'Queens Of The Stone Age' Gig Posters by Rhys Cooper

I love the artwork of Rhys Cooper's gig posters and these 'Queens Of The Stone Age' Vampyre prints are no different!

These are available in two flavours, the regular Red and a variant Blueblood. They're both 12″ x 36″ signed and numbered, 5 colour screenprints with metallic inks, both in a limited edition of 350. The regular costs $40 and the variant $60.

Go here to buy.

Cool Art: 'Batman Black and White #3' Cover Art by Olly Moss

'Batman Black and White #3' cover art by Olly Moss.
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Cool Art: Mondo Celebrates Alfred Hitchcock With Three New Prints

Tomorrow (August 13), Mondo celebrate the birthday of one of the most important filmmakers of all time, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, with the release of three new prints dedicated to the master of suspense.

There's Tomer Hanuka's 'Psycho, and two 'Vertigo' prints by Ghoulish Gary Pullin. The prints are 24" x 36" hand numbered screen prints. Tomer's 'Psycho' is in a limited edition of 290 and costs $45. Gary's two 'Vertigo' prints are limited to 240 copies each and they both cost $40.

Follow them on Twitter @MondoNews for the on sale announcement. These posters will be available online at a random time on Tuesday, August 13th

'Psycho' by Tomer Hanuka
'Vertigo' by Goulish Gary Pullin
'Vertigo' by Goulish Gary Pullin

Cool Art: 'Daenerys Targaryen' & 'Ned Stark' by Doodle-Mon

These 'Game Of Thrones' inspired prints by Doodle-mon will be available at the Japan Expo this month.

Mass Effect - Series 3: Episode 3 'The Primarch' & Episode 4 'From Ashes'

Continuing with the serialisation of Matt Beaudette's TV show style edit of the Mass Effect trilogy with another double episode of the third chapter of the Mass Effect saga. (If you've not played the games, there be spoilers ahead!)

Episode 3: "The Primarch"
After receiving no support from the Council, the Normandy crew heads to the Turian homeworld, Palaven, to attempt to extract the Turian Primarch from Palaven's moon. If the upcoming Summit is to succeed in gathering support for Earth, Turian support is a necessity



Episode 4: "From Ashes"
After dealing with some technical issues aboard the Normandy, Shepard returns to Eden Prime, the place where it all started, after getting reports of Cerberus activity; possibly involving a Prothean artifact.

Cool Art: 'Out Of Service' by Tim Doyle

'Out Of Service' by Tim Doyle is a new 'My Neighbour Totoro' Catbus / Grumpy Cat mashup print via Spoke Art.

It is a 16″ x 20″ fine art archival giclee of an original watercolour painting, and is signed and numbered in a limited edition of 150, and costs $40.

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Cool Art: Two New Prints By Luke Butland: 'The Legend Of Zelda' & 'Breaking Bad'

Luke Butland has a couple of new prints out.

The first is inspired by 'The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time'. This was created in collaboration with composer Marcus Hedges, and with every purchase of this print you will receive a digital download of the music Link learns on the ocarina re-composed for Orchestra by Marcus Hedges.

This print is available as a 11.7" x 30" Giclee Print on 240Gsm Natural white paper, it's in a limited edition of 20 and costs £20.

The second print, 'The One Who Knocks', is inspired by 'Breaking Bad' and features Walter White. This print is available as a 11.7" x 11.7" Giclee Print on 240Gsm Natural white paper, it's in a limited edition of 50 and costs £20.

Check out both below and go here to buy.