Cage Against The Machine

What is it about Nicolas Cage that inspires so many artists? (Hanksy, via Gallery 1988's How The West Was Pun show)

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Nicolas Cage: Snow Monkey
Nicolas Cage Wants Cake
Nicolas Cage + Lichtenstein = Nictenstein

Murphy Delivers The Law

There are only three Robocop commandments: 1. Serve the public trust. 2. Protect the innocent. 3. Uphold the law. There might be a fourth, but I can't tell you about that. (Tim Doyle for Spoke Art's Mucho Machismo)

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We Stand On Guard For The Robot Apocalypse
Saturday Morning With RoboCop
Robocorn

Murphy... It’s You.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening. (Tim Doyle)

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Saturday Morning With Robocop
Robocop Bear
Robocorn

The Eyes Have It. Umm, Maybe Not

Is it just me or does Geordi La Forge look out of place in this group? (Stripe Visors by ben6835)

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Back Away From The Donuts, RoboCop!
Framework: The Eyes Have It
X-Mario: You Save The Princesses, We'll Save The World

We Stand On Guard For The Robot Apocalypse

ED-209: Please put down your lances. You have 20 seconds to comply.

Dick Jones: I think you better do as he says, RCMP Musical Ride.

ED-209: You now have 15 seconds to comply.

ED-209: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.

ED-209: You have 5 seconds to comply.

ED-209: Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force!

Italian illustrator Franco Brambilla's Eddy Canada is part of the Invading The Vintage series: "Cute Aliens invading grandpa's postcards, scifi movies and old tv shows." (Via Exhibition-ism)

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Robocorn

Saturday Morning With RoboCop

Back Away From The Donuts, RoboCop!

It's Astro Mega Robo Iron Gadget Prime Time Fools!

"Just thought I'd take some of meh fav 80's cybernetic and robotic characters and temporarily team them up for no apparent reason other than kicking a multitude of ass," says kizer180. I support this kind of random pairing and demand more of it, internet!

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Go Go Vitruvian Inspector Gadget
If Stark Industries Had Created Astroboy...
Mystery Machine Transformer

Saturday Morning With RoboCop

Dead or alive, you're coming with me, coffee. (Robe-o-cop by Teo Zirinis via Shirtoid)

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Robocorn

The Man Machine

Back Away From The Donuts, RoboCop!

Hello Pop Culture Kitties

Illustrator Joseph Senior (aka yodaflicker) is creating 101 pop culture Hello Kitty figures (he's got 68 so far). Above, eight of my favourites: Hello RoboKitty; Hello KISSy Gene; Hello Clockwork Orange; Hello DarthKitty; HALO Kitty; Hello Kill Bill; Hello Jason; Hello Rorschach. (Link via Geek-Art)

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Hello Anatomy Kitty

Hello Starry Night

You Didn't Think It Would Be That Easy, Did You, Hello Kitty?

Exterminate! Exterminated

Dalek's have no loyalty to other robots. Exterminate! (Exterminated by jimiyo at TeeFury)

Update: I have been informed that Daleks are not, in fact, robots, thus revealing my pop culture shame — I've never watched Dr. Who.

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Famous Robots Roles During The Robot Apocalypse

R2DJ Drops Robot Beats

Robot Spare Parts

Robocop Bear

Dead or alive, you are cuddling with me. Aww, so cute, so deadly. From King Panpan, who is creating one bear illustration a day for all of 2010. (Link via Geek-Art)

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Back Away From The Donuts, RoboCop!
Robocorn
The Man Machine

Crazy 4 Cult: 4 - The Case Of The Redundant Number

Gallery 1988 has announced its latest Crazy 4 Cult show, a show that I have discovered many amazing pop culture artists. Judging from Mike Mitchell's official poster, the show is already a success.

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Guns. Lots Of Guns
Make Like A Tree And Get Outta Here
He-Man And The Masters of Their Own Domain

Back Away From The Donuts, RoboCop!

The intervening years have not been kind to RoboCop. So do you think his armor is flexible or does it have to keep getting rebuilt as he packs on the pounds? (Too Many Donuts via Glennz Tees)

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Robocorn
The Man Machine
Kool-Aid Pop Culture? Oh, Yeah!

The Man Machine

After multiple listens of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn", the Terminator, C-3PO, Robocop and Gort decided to form a band.  Ot it's Christopher Golebiowski's Krafts, based on Kraftwerk's The Man Machine Album cover. Either/or. (Link via Agent M Loves Tacos)

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Robocorn
The Future is Terminated
Tin Man vs C-3P0

Kool-Aid Pop Culture? Oh, Yeah!

Far more than a mere quencher of thirst, the Kool-Aid man has infiltrated deep into our collective pop culture consciousness. In the battle of Western pop culture versus Islamic extremism (and, apparently Cobra) the Kool-Aid man was a loyal (if confused) foot soldier, alongside the Steve Erwin, Waldo, The Fonz, Mr. T, Robocop and Rodney Dangerfield. This, according to pop artist Joseph Griffith's painting The Surrender, commemorating the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown. (Link via culture kills)

Of course the Iranians my see things differently, as they too enjoy a cold glass of sugar water, as judged from this package. Though the Kool-Aid man's smile admittedly a little creepy. (Link via BoingBoing)

The Kool-Aid man also has a surprisingly long history. The Great Wall of China kept the Mongols out for over 1000 years... until one fateful day when some parched Chinese soldier disastrously called out "Hey Kool-Aid!" Spiked Punch from Threadless designer Andy Gonsalves. (Link via Super Punch)

Centuries later, he was still busting down walls. Wanted from Scott VanDenPlas and Joe Van Wetering in Chicago. (Link via Neatorama)



Dane Cook's Kool Aid Skit - Celebrity bloopers here
While I am loathe to spread Dane Cook any further on the interweb, he does capture the oddity of the Kool-Aid man's home destroying ways. And really, why would you want to drink out of an anthropomorphic jug's head?

Oh, no! I would never drink that man's Kool-Aid. Or maybe Kool-Aid ever again. (Link via LOL Factory)

Yep, the Kool-Aid man had his own comic book — in the 80s, naturally. His superpower appears to be the ability to break through walls (naturally) and quench thirst. Still, it beats Aquaman. (Link via Forces of Good)

Even more bizarre, there was also an origin story, "The Hasty Smear of My Smile...", purportedly written by Alan Moore that talks about his birth, his beginnings as a spokespitcher and his eventual meetings with Ken Kesey (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) and Jonestown death cult leader Jim Jones. "I wish to Christ I could stop grinning."

I don't know if this was really done by Moore, but the the full four panels posted at Again With The Comics are hilarious. (Link via Super Punch)

Sure, he denies being present when the phrase "Drink the Kool-Aid" took on it's deadly meaning, but with those glasses the Kool-Aid man does bear a striking resemblance to Jim Jones. Get Kult-Aid at Loiter.



5 Most Awkward Koo-Aid Ads
While it is great having the ability to break through walls, not knowing what is on the other side can have some very serious repercussions.



Family Guy Kool-Aid
In TV ads, kids all love it when the Kool-Aid man comes bursting through the wall, but in reality it's kind of annoying.

Of course if you keep smashing down people's walls, at some point someone is going to make you fix it back up. Community Service available at AntiClothes. (Link via Adventures of Accordion Guy)



You'd figure being made of glass and hanging around kids, this sort of thing would happen more often.

Robocorn

Why? Why not, I suppose. Who wouldn't want an armored cyborg dashing about on a magical beast that farts glitter, as is my understanding.

io9 describes it as "fan art that hovers perfectly in the canny valley between sarcasm and homage." I see it more as a fever-induced nightmare brought on by late-night TV viewing and an overindulgence in science fantasy novels.

I'm going to get one for my wall.

(Link: Photobasement via io9)