Lunchtime Atop a Death Star

A few questions — can stormtroopers breath in space and if so, how would they eat? And what's keeping them from floating away? (zero-lives via Shirtoid)

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Last Supper Atop A Skyscraper
Stormtrooper Army
Imperial Stormtroopers... Wheeee!

Edward Scissorhands: Delight in Paper Chains

My last posting from Gallery 1988's Crazy 4 Cult show is May Ann Licudine's Delight in Paper Chains, which is wonderfully whimsical. You can see all of May's process here and be sure to check out all the artwork at the gallery. I have found some great new artists to follow.

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Poor Predictable Edward, Always Chooses Scissors
The Depp Hatter's Tea Party
Edward Simpsonhands

Come And Play With Us, Danny

Hello Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever... and ever... and ever.

Scenes from The Shining is a popular subject at this year's Gallery 1988 Crazy for Cult show. Above: Come Play With Us by Israel Sanchez.

"My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I 'corrected' them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I 'corrected' her. "

Above: A Father's Duty by Audrey Pongracz. To this day this movie scares the crap out of me.

"Danny, I'm coming! Come out, come out, where ever you are." Above: The Caretaker by Lucas Gluesenkamp.

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All Work And No Reese's Pieces Makes E.T. A Dull Boy
Heeere's Cookie Monster!
Heeere's Johnny!

Beach Party Of The Planet Of The Apes

The maniacs may have blown it up, but nobody seems to mind. It's still a nice beach. It's a Question of Simian Survival by Scott Listfield at Gallery 1988's Crazy for Cult show.

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Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape!
King Kong Is Ape Amongst Apes
Popaganda: The Pop Culture Revolution

Flaming Lips: Do You Realize?

Do you realize?
That everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

I saw an amazing performance this week by The Flaming Lips in Toronto, a true spectacle that left me in awe. These aren't my videos — my camera phone isn't up to the job, but they give you a great sense of being there.




One of the highlights was the sing-along to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

And Wayne Coyne did crowd surf in his space ball / hamster ball and @phrichards got a great shot. If you ever get a chance to go see this bad don't pass it up.

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Pavement? Rattled By The Rush

Unusual Suspects

"Keaton always said, 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."

Augie Pagan takes on one of my favourite movies, The Usual Suspects and recreates in for Gallery 1988's Crazy 4 Cult show, making reference to past movies that some of the actors have been in. I think these are the six: Willow, Che, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Wolfman, Cool World and Excalibur.

So hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Fear And Loathing On Sesame Street
Che's Big Adventure
How To Spot A Wolfman

Kiss Elves And Other Tales

Kiss Elves wanna make boots all night and party every day. (Link via Hark, a vagrant)

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Grandma, What Informative Graphics You Have!
Snow White & The Depressing Reality
Gingerbread Man Dissected

Double Rainbow: What Does It Mean!?!?!!

By now you've likely seen this double rainbow video but if you haven't, enjoy this expression of pure bliss by someone who is also most likely incredibly high.

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The Rainbow Vomiting Pandas Of Interestingness
Everybody Loves A Clown
Fear And Loathing In The Mystery Machine

Exile on Meme Street

My god, it's full of memes! Dan Meth's twist on the most raucous Rolling Stones album, Exile On Main St.

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Twenty-Nine Memes
ROFLcoaster
Keyboard Cat's Last Supper

Japandering Celebrities

Dan Meth looks at some Hollywood stars appearing in Japanese commercials. While many of them rival Homer Simpson's Mr. Sparkle they really don't seen like parodies.

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Cyborg Sex Machine
Emomelon Days
Stanley Kubrick Bloopers

Something Strange In Your T-Shirt Drawer

Two Threadless tees that I have previously featured have been printed this week and are now available for purchase, if that's the sort of thing you're likely to do.

Above: Something Strange, In Your Beverage by David Staffell.
Below: Zombies In Wonderland by Alice X. Zhang and Donald Lim

Previously on Popped Culture...
Who Ya Gonna Telegraph? 
Pulp Fiction Wonderland
Through The Remixed Looking Glass 

Adult Toy Story: Unrated

Oh the things that toy has seen and done... (Link via Medium Large)

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Toy Story Wire: Way Down In The Hole
Toyz Noise
Toy Story 3: Inception

The Tweet of Twithulhu

Cthulhu fhtagn! Don't wake the Elder Twit for its tweets would be unpronounceable horrors. (Warren Ellis via Fashionably Geek)

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Cthulhu And Hobbes
Santa Cthulhu
The Original Fail Whale 

A Clockwork Smurf

Ready for a bit of the old ultra-smurfness? Maybe if the new movie was something like this I'd watch it. (A Clockwork Smurf by Captain RibMan, via Shirtoid)

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Reservoir Droogs
A Clockwork Clownfish
Frakkin' Smurfs

Hot Butter Swedish Chef

Füür måkkïn dê pöpcørn!
Är dîî måkkïn dê pöpcørn.

It's nice to see that the Swedish Chef knows a good synthpop instrumental if nothing about popcorn shrimp. (Be sure to watch it with the Closed Captions on.)

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Muppets Last Supper
The Creation Of Kermit
Wokka Wakka Wonka

Are We There Yet?

Robot kids, can't shut them off, can't reboot them. (Stories for Robots via Soup von b-w)

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The Android Team
The Birth Of Robot Punk
Robot Spare Parts

Worf Is Beautiful, No Matter What They Say

Actually, that's not true at all — Klingons should never wear makeup. By Joshua and Nathan Flynn and won ‘Best Stop Motion’ award category of the 2009 University of Glamorgan Glammies Awards. (Link via Neatogeek)

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Are You For Panda Rape?
M-M-M-M-Make It So
It's Worse Than That, He's Dead, Jim!

Shakespeare A-Z

Outside of Macbeth I've just never been much of a Shakespeare aficionado, but I know a great concept when I see one and SeedUvPain's Shakespeare A-Z for Shirt.Woot more than fits the bill.

For those of you who need a refresher (like me) here is a who's who:

A-J: Antony (Julius Caesar), Bottom (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra), Dromio (Comedy of Errors), Edmund (King Lear), Falstaff (Henry IV), Goodfellow (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Hamlet (Hamlet) Iago (Othello), Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)

K-T: Kate (Taming of the Shrew), Lady M (Macbeth), Macbeth (Macbeth), Nurse (Romeo and Juliet) Ophelia (Hamlet), Prospero (Tempest), Quintus (Titus Andronicus), Richard III (Richard III), Shylock (Merchant of Venice), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet)

U-Z: Ulysses (Troilus and Cressida), Valentine (Two Gentlemen of Verona), Weird Sisters (MacBeth), eXit, pursued by a bear (Winter’s Tale), Yorick (Hamlet), Z (Shakespeare)

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Green Eggs and Hamlet
Scooby-Doo And The Prince of Denmark
William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction

Canadian Stereotype Comics

Man, I remember when I got my first canoe. Good times. And I hope nobody was offended. I'm sorry. (Hark, a vagrant via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century)

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Happy Birthday Canada
With Influences That Range From A To Zed
Canadian History: The Video Game

Happy Birthday Canada!

I made this a couple of years ago, but I still like it, so let's have another go. And really, who was I going to add, Justin Bieber? Have a great day everyone!

Previously on Popped Culture...
With Influences That Range From A To Zed 
This Book Decapitated Michael Ondaatje
Canadian History: The Video Game