This show keeps getting better and better. This one takes on optical effects and shows how they produced some of the effects for STAR WARS and even show how opticals are printed. So nerdy and great!

-Justin

Until a few nights ago, I had no idea that this show existed let alone that it had 5 seasons! This could be one of my favorite shows of all time and I’m just now hearing about it more than ten years after its last show aired. This first episode is pretty basic. It shows how head casts are made with alginate and how they sculpt things out and mold them in foam latex, etc., but the later episodes get nuts. Miniature pyrotechnics, optical effects, demons, tornadoes, etc. Click HERE for a full episode list. I’m going to post as many of these as I possibly can on the blog so get ready for some learnin’!

-Justin

Last week was the opening of “The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds“ at the Upper Playground Art Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a funky little gallery / store where artists create unique pieces of clothing that are hipster meets geek. Hoodies with killer bees on them, t-shirts full of sales slogans from the 1950s and so on. Cool, but pricy stuff. There was a sweet jacket there by Superfishal that I wanted to snag, but it was $120. A bit much to pay for a jacket when you live in a town where you rarely need to wear a jacket.

The show consisted of art from David Choe, Sam Flores, Estevan Oriol, Grotesk, Jeremy Fish, Patrick Martinez, Alex Pardee, Dora Drimalas, Munk One, N8 Van Dyke, Rene Alamanza, Morning Breath and Skinner Davis, and they each created their own poster art based off their interpretation of Inglorious Basterds. Only six prints of each piece was created, and those were practically sold out by the time the show opened, to the tune of $300 a pop. Eli Roth (The Bear Jew), Samm Levine (Pfc. Gerold Hirschberg), and Omar Doom (Pfc. Omar Ulmer / Dominick Decocco) all attended the opening, as did producer Lawrence Bender, but Tarantino himself was nowhere to be found … even though his signature was on all the prints.

I spoke to Samm Levine, who was picking up this sweet Munk piece, and asked him if a secret cut of the film existed where his character had more lines. “I don’t know if it exists yet, but I can tell you that footage is out there somewhere. We shot a lot of stuff, who knows what might happen with it!” Check out pictures from the event in the gallery below, which contains all of the pieces that were for sale..

- Kevin

The first shirt in our new release comes from David D’ Andrea who you may remember from our ANTICHRIST poster we did last year. He was the perfect guy to illustrate this shirt dedicated to the most evil band to ever hit the screen, SACRIFYX! It’s available in white and black and like with all of our products, is in limited supply.

This is one of my personal favorites as it features the Zoltar fortune telling machine from BIG. This shirt was produced by our good pal Mike Saputo. Mike always turns in killer designs and you can definitely expect to see more from him soon.

Cinefile is also back with it as they just released two shirts in their super popular Directors Shirt series. This time Pedro Almodovar and Alejandro Jodorowsky get the title treatments.

Last but not least we have our newest shirt for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. All of these shirts are available online HERE and in the Mondo store at 1120 S. Lamar Blvd. Keep an eye on the blog as we have some big things lined up for 2010!

-Justin

I thought it was fitting to do a QT Fest edition of We’ve Been Framed considering the news that he saved the New Beverly Cinema. We’re big fans of the New Bev and QT and are very happy to see that the theater will be around showing great movies for years to come.

These two posters were sent in by Micah and are for QT 6 and Best of QT Fest (which was my first trip to the Alamo).

Thanks Micah!

-Justin

P.S. If you are into studying films at all, specifically exploitation films, take a closer look at the books on Micah’s shelf. NIGHTMARE USA and SLEAZOID EXPRESS are amazing books that can’t be recommended enough.

A fan on our Twitter account remembered how obsessed I am with the classic HBO intro from the 80’s-90’s and sent me a link to the behind the scenes look of how much attention to detail and dedication went into the making of it. At certain points of this video I was fist pumping in the air…I think it was when they mentioned that each car had individual headlights and the shot of the guy using tweezers to insert a tiny little bush into a tiny little pot. Every aspect of this is fascinating….from how they shot it, to how they created the swirling colors on the “O,” to how they molded the town. Watch and really, truly marvel at genius at work.

-Justin

P.S. If anyone knows any of the people involved with this, please let me know. I would love to email them and thank them for creating one of the most memorable things from my childhood.

Is this what the movie’s like in 2D?

Even the undead need a little love, right? Gallery Nucleus is holding a “Zombies in Love” exhibit through February 22nd in Alhambra, California, and it features a load of forlorn grey matter-eaters just looking for a little love. Screw the traditional restaurant scene and ditch the tired chocolate hearts, this is a perfect stop for you and your honey on Valentine’s Day. My favorite piece is this little undead bird, which makes me imagine a Zombie Twitterfeed … which would probably only ever say “BRRRRAAAAIIIINNNNNS” or possibly “Shambling.” Stop in for the gore, peruse their little shop (they have some sweet zombie books and a nifty undead doll you can take home), then head across the street to the Yazmin Malaysian Restaurant for some food. I don’t know if they serve brains or not, but you could always ask.

- Kevin

This is a first for me as I’ve never seen a framed ANTICHRIST poster before. David D’ Andrea was the artist on this particular piece and if you liked this, you’re going to love the new shirt we’ve got coming that he illustrated (Should be for sale in the next week or so.) If you look in the background you can also see the Stout INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS poster we put out and his THE BIG LEBOWSKI poster.

Thanks to Gabriel for the photo.

If you’d like to have your posters featured on the blog, please send me your pictures (at least 700px wide) at Justin (at) MondoTees.com.

-Justin