When famous cartoon characters invade the great works of art we all hold so dear, it results in this excellent mashup series of images from users of Designcrowd.















When famous cartoon characters invade the great works of art we all hold so dear, it results in this excellent mashup series of images from users of Designcrowd.
Atsushi Segawa had been making animated GIFs out of ukiyo-e for a while when he was commissioned by Japanese computer maker NEC to mix computers and computer use into Edo-era Japan.
Defenders of Ataros
The imaginative work of Dan Hernandez (in his exhibition at New York's Kim Foster Gallery) takes the structure and narrative of Sega-era video games and redoes them visually and symbolically with religious imagery.
Titled Genesis 2014 (for the Sega Genesis console) includes side scrolling fighting games to top-down shooters. I want to see a kickstarter project to turn these into actual videos games soon.
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There is something so pitch-perfect about this work from mashup artist Butcher Billy that elevates it. Certainly its style and wit help quite a bit, but even more than that, there is some thing about identity and fame here. Just great.
Visit Billy’s Behance for more work.
See also Super Secret Lives & The Justice League of Parks and Rec
San Francisco-based artist Lizabeth Eva Rossof created these familiary terracotta warriors to look like pop culture characters
My mind melted a little bit. Click each to see its full glory.
Redditer shystone placed some old paintings of London in context in London's modern cityscape.
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1. 'Brooklyn Go Hard (Instrumental)' - Performed by Jay-Z (Roc-A-Fella Records)
2. 'Save The World (Knife Party Remix)' - Performed by Swedish House Mafia (EMI Records)
3. 'The Opening' - Composed by François Paul Aïche (from The Fifth Estate trailer / DreamWorks SKG)
Dj Earworm takes Billboard’s weekly Hot 100 charts, and mashes some of the favorites into his “The United State of Pop (Shine Brighter),” 25 tunes into just four minutes.
“Rated G” is a series giclee prints from Justin White depicting scenes from iconic film and television in the language of cartoon.
The work is on display in Gallery 1988 on Melrose in Hollywood and the one of a kind prints are available for purchase at gallery1988.com.
More Art
This is a project well worth revisiting. Half the face is from one relative, the other half from another. Just creepy and stunning and awesome from French photographer Ulric Collette.
It's a simple premise: playing an album as a new soundtrack. Well, here is The Wizard of Oz with The Dark Side of the Moon.
A little promotional video (promoting Coney Island, of course), this is an amusing mashup of New York's landmarks and fun rides. Fun fun.