Classic 80s Movie Posters Get The Zombie Treatment In the Latest Incarnation By Matt Busch. Plus Some Other New & Notable Additions.

You may recall a post I wrote in 2010 where I featured 30 popular movie posters which were Zombie-fied by artist Matt Busch. Classics like Star Wars, Jaws and Breakfast at Tiffany's received the ghoulish treatment. Since then, a slew of new Zombie versions of beloved 80s Movie Posters (and more wonderful 90s movie posters) have been released.



The newest collection (the fifth from Hollywood is Dead) of hand-painted, re-imagined movie posters with a zombie twist focuses on blockbusters that defined the 80′s, like The Terminator (The Termin Ate Her), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Ferris Bueller’s Day of the Dead) and The Breakfast Club (The Breakfast Clump), Prince’s Purple Rain (Prance’s Purple Pain) and The Lost Boys (The Last Boys) to name a few. ”This set of posters was really fun to work on,” comments Busch, “not just because I was an 80′s kid, but because movies had a magic back then that’s rarely seen today.”

Here's a look at the new collection.

Ferris Beuller's Day Off:

The Lost Boys:

Three Men And A Baby:

The Terminator:

Purple Rain:

Porky's:

Who's Afraid of Roger Rabbit?

For Your Eyes Only:

The Breakfast Club:


Also worth noting are thes fun new additions of 90s Movie Posters shown below, Zombified.

Sex And The City:

Twilight Eclipse:

The Sixth Sense:

Shawshank Redemption:

Beauty and The Beast:


Busch first made waves with his undead parodies in 2009 with Zombie Wars(a project authorized by Lucasfilm) re-imagining all 6 Star Wars movie posters with his decrepit vision. Since the original media frenzy, Busch conceived a larger project and the outbreak expanded into an online gallery at Hollywood-is-Dead.com.

For this 80′s series of zombified posters, Busch has returned to the roots that started it all Star Wars. Busch explains, “When I illustrated the original set, for Return of the Jedi, I chose to parody Drew Struzan’s advance poster, which at the time was still called Revenge of the Jedi.” Since then, Fans have been demanding that Busch re-create the more familiar one-sheet design that was illustrated by Kazuhiko Sano. “Now, one will have the option of collecting a version that’s more of a montage. Together they tell a morbid story, and this completes the saga.”

The other Star Wars film that happened to be released in the 80′s, The Empire Strikes Back, is a fan favorite. The Hollywood-is-Dead version, The Living Dead Strikes Back, is no exception, featuring a zombified Han Solo projecting blood vomit onto an eagerly-awaiting zombie Princess Leia. To commemorate, Busch is re-releasing the poster as a larger, full movie-poster-size print (shown below).



In addition to the posters, Busch has recently struck a licensing deal with Fright-Rags, Inc. to produce high quality full color shirts based on the zombified parodies. One the horizon, a coffee table book is in development, as well as a board game. The Hollywood-is-Dead original paintings are currently exhibited in the ArtInsights Animation and Film Art Gallery in Reston, Virginia. Gallery owner Leslie Combemale states, “Yes, these images are over-the-top, but they are also a love note from Matt to the original artists who created these classics and to the dying art used to make great movie posters.”

Zombified Movie Posters.

To see the available original art, visit all of Busch’s Hollywood is Dead paintings at the ArtInsights Animation and Film Art Gallery here.

To learn more about Matt Busch’s other art, movies, and projects galore, be sure to check out www.MattBusch.com.

Hole Punch Dots Make Whole Face Portraits by Artist Nikki Douthwaite.

Artist and huge F1 fan Nikki Douthwaite makes mosaic portraits out of photographs, paper scraps, articles and ephemera, but her Hole Punch Dot portraits really caught my eye. Most of us just toss out those little round pieces of paper punched out from larger pieces without giving them a second thought. What we think of us trash, Nikki has turned into an art medium.


above: Marilyn Monroe's portrait made with approx 99,000 punch hole dots


above: James Lebron takes a good close look at Nikki's portrait of John Lennon

Taking colored hole punch dots to create large overscale black and white portraits (yes, colored dots create the shading and tones in the black and white portraits) Nikki painstakingly arranges them on wood, varnishes them and frames them.



She has created many Hole Punch Dot portraits of Formula 1 race car drivers and even one of Bruce McLaren himself- all shown below. She has also created several commissions and boasts a world's record. Here's a look at her work.

MUHAMMED ALI
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 115,000) on wood, Size - 165cm by 150cm:


JIMI HENDRIX
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 150,000) on wood, Size - 150cm by 200cm:



MARTIN and ALEX BRUNDLE, Hole Punch Dots (Approx 140,000) on wood:


ALAIN PROST
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 100,000) on wood, Size - 160cm by 122cm:



JENSON BUTTON
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 100,000) on wood, Size - 160cm by 122cm:


JAMES HUNT
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 100,000) on wood, Size - 160cm by 122cm:


BRUCE MCLAREN
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 150,000) on wood, Size - 200cm by 150cm:



JOHN LENNON
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 99,000) on wood, Size - 158cm by 122cm:



MARILYN MONROE
Hole Puch Dots (Approx 99,000) on wood, Size - 158cm by 122cm:



AYRTON SENNA
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 100,000) on wood, Size - 160cm by 122cm:



CHERYL COLE
Hole Punch Dots (Approx 59.000) on wood, Size - 122cm by 105cm:



ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work for the last three years has been based around two mediums; dot art (also known as confetti art) and collage.

My dot art is made by using coloured dots produced by a hole punch, and painstakingly stuck on, one by one, with a pair of tweezers. This idea came from the works of Georges-Pierre Seurat, studying his pointillist paintings from the late 19th century. My collages are made from magazine articles relevant to the subject of the picture.



My work, whether dots or collage, have similarities in progress. Based around art-critic and teacher Charles Blanc and chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul's theories of optical mixing, colour placement and colour relationships. Colour excites me, and use of it is critical to the success of one of my works.

Whatever the medium, my goal is to create two experiences for the viewer. The first is a close up experience of either thousands of tiny, mixed up coloured dots, or readable magazine articles, which in detail intrigue in themselves, but may seem chaotic and to have no order to the viewer at this distance. The second experience is the far away view, the viewers' eyes and brain mix the dots/articles/colours together, revealing the relationships of the details and the image as a whole.

My choice of portraits comes from an interest in faces, in the biological form; bone and muscle construction, sociological, expression and individuality. Most of my work is based around my love of motor sport, predominantly Formula One, for which I have a huge passion.


above: Nikki Douthwaite shows off her world record holder certificate for creating the world's largest confetti mosaic consisting of 587,000 hole punched dots.

I have been working with these mediums now for about three years. I am obsessed with attention to detail, and I am meticulous about every dot, every piece being in the right place. I work for ten to fourteen hours at a time, through the night to optimise concentration.


For Sales Enquires please contact her Agent, Henna at henna.riaz@gmail.com


Nikki Douthwaite

A Sneak Peek At The Forthcoming 2013 Line Of High End Analog Turntables by Phonotikal.

Here's a sneak peek at the upcoming collection of modern luxury analog turntables from Phonotikal. Using materials such as steel, wood, aluminum, and introducing new, more streamlined silhouettes, the 2013 collection has finishes such as gold, and new colors like neon green and bright orange.

Phonitkal is a small family company that builds high end turntables. The hobby of an audiophile father, former drummer and sound designer who has teamed up with the designer's son. They design and create their own unique turntables. The result is a collection of hand-mounted turntables assembled with components of the highest quality. The chassis is manufactured with the latest technology in the Czech Republic.

Their present models of turntables are stunning, as you can see over at Homecrux. But what's coming in 2013 is even more beautiful.





















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