{"id":12594,"date":"2007-12-20T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/old-school-star-wars-lego-graffiti-more.html"},"modified":"2007-12-20T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:58:14","slug":"old_school_star_wars_lego_graffiti_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/old_school_star_wars_lego_graffiti_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-school Star Wars, Lego graffiti, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mo&#8217; betta illustration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars goes<em> <u>old<\/u><\/em> old school Euro in <a href=\"http:\/\/mattiasa.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/star-wars-baroque-version.html\"><em>Baroque Wars<\/em><\/a>. (Dig that crazy <a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_MnaTtm17tmQ\/R1WK7wl4drI\/AAAAAAAAC34\/33rvB9YSXqE\/s1600-h\/death-star2.jpg\">Death Star<\/a>.)&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/12\/11\/baroque-wars\/\">Via<\/a>]&#160; Coincidentally I just stumbled across this Wikipedia-hosted rendering of similar-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image%3ALandsknechte.jpg\">Landsknechte<\/a> mercenaries. <\/li>\n<li>If, like me, you&#8217;re a no-good, non-gift-buying slacker, you can try to compensate by banging out festive imagery for loved ones.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/departika.com\/?page_id=92\">These Photoshop brushes<\/a> could help. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/holiday_brushes_8440.asp\">Via<\/a>]&#160;&#160; (I&#8217;m  doing a mid-day mall sprint after publishing this; hopefully my boss isn&#8217;t keeping up on the blog. ;-P)<\/li>\n<li>Street art :\n<ul>\n<li>A graffiti artist has <a href=\"http:\/\/moblog.co.uk\/view.php?id=281116\">found Jesus<\/a> in the urban landscape. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/jesus_sighting_8028.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Legos visit the Summer of Sam era with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/videos\/bombing_trains_in_lego_land_8358.asp\">stop-motion train-tagging<\/a>.&#160; (In light of recent world history, I wouldn&#8217;t be tossing around the phrase &#8220;train bombing&#8221; myself.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tyskie Beer commissioned some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/tyskie-beer.html\">crafty flag renderings<\/a> using its packaging as raw materials.<\/li>\n<li>Kavel Rafferty offers &#8220;A reference for vinyl geeks and graphic artists&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedcombs.typepad.com\/recordenvelope\/\">Record Envelope<\/a>&#8211;a whole blog devoted to record sleeve art.&#160; I like the big-mouthed <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedcombs.typepad.com\/recordenvelope\/2007\/12\/swedish-variety.html\">Kn\u00e4ppupp<\/a> in particular. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawn.ca\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>The opening of Mark Ovenden&#8217;s <em>Transit Maps of the World<\/em> features a groovy <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/03\/212-transit-map-of-the-worlds-transit-systems\/\">subway map of the world<\/a>.&#160; (I take a weird pleasure in San Jos\u00e9 appearing (with accent!) on the map, but SF getting shut out.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/subway_map_of_the_world_8336.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hireanillustrator.com\/\">Hire An Illustrator<\/a> will help you&#8230; um&#8230; bury people in Grant&#8217;s Tomb?&#160; (Maybe it&#8217;ll just help you hire an illustrator.) <\/li>\n<li>Edward Hann&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardhann.co.uk\/idp06.html\">Internally Displaced People &#8217;06<\/a> attempts &#8220;to demonstrate the scale of humanitarian crisis in Western Darfur and Eastern Chad,&#8221; and a quarter of the profits from its sale go to Amnesty International.&#160;[<a href=\"http:\/\/ffffound.com\/image\/29879ae7edb123d40408997479e0bee2daef41b5\">Via<\/a>]&#160; It&#8217;s too bad that the Web presentation makes it hard to see the work in detail, as I can&#8217;t really assess how it&#8217;s tackling the problem. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo&#8217; betta illustration: Star Wars goes old old school Euro in Baroque Wars. (Dig that crazy Death Star.)&#160; [Via]&#160; Coincidentally I just stumbled across this Wikipedia-hosted rendering of similar-looking Landsknechte mercenaries. If, like me, you&#8217;re a no-good, non-gift-buying slacker, you can try to compensate by banging out festive imagery for loved ones.&#160; These Photoshop brushes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}