Posted by Alex Fugazi on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Spacesick is from the future. The future of the past. One of the superstars over at Threadless (and anywhere else he rolls), Mr. Sick is literally a pair of cat’s pajamas.
So, I’ve been a fan of Spacesick for a while. I remember the day someone forwarded me a link to his flickr page of his ‘I Can Read Movies’ series. And what I saw there melted my face. MELTED, I tells ya!
I went on to explore the rest of his stuff, and fell in love. So when we were getting together the second season of the Invitational, I made it my mission to have him aboard. Success!
This art print and paired t-shirt, titled ‘More Human Than Human’ are both available for the month of December- or when 100 copies of each are sold!
Because this is December, and there’s some holiday I’ve heard about happening, we’re printing this Invitational EARLY to get it into everyone’s hands ASAP. (We can’t guarantee delivery dates for international orders, unfortunately!)
And, because we here at Nakatomi love you…the t-shirt GLOWS IN THE DARK!
Mark our evil words, Spacesick has some awesomeness in the pipeline, bringing treats to us all!
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
It’s finally here!
This Tribute print by Tim Doyle and Nick Derington is now up for sale! This 4 color print measures 12×24, with a silver metallic rain printed on top! You can’t see it from every angle, so look at this flash-close-up pic of the actual print below!
Signed and numbered by both Doyle and Derington in an edition of 120. There is also a Glow in The Dark (all the white and neon glows!) in an edition of 30. Printed by Doyle at the Nakatomi print labs, this print is in hand and ready to ship immediately! Available for sale in the Art Prints section of the Nakatomi store! Check out the digital comp below-
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
The 5 new Jacob Borshard prints that debuted at the East Austin Studio Tour are now available!
Creebobby Money, Series #1
Featuring T-Rex Lincoln, Cakes, Ukes and Undies.’
Jacob Borshard has just finished up this very limited issue of ‘Series #1 Creebobby Money’, featuring everybody’s favorite five dollar Cretaceous Orator, Preserver of the Pangean Union and author of the Lactation Proclamation, the Great Pest from the Midwest, ‘T-Rex Lincoln’ himself! Also featured are irresistible ‘One Dollar Cakes’, harmonious ‘Ten Dollar Ukes’ and indulgent ‘Twenty Dollar Undies’. The four bills come in a matched set of four 8″ by 10″ artist-pulled signed and numbered screen-prints featuring iridescent money ink and creamy cream money paper. Rich indeed. Backed by Platy-platinum stashed in the Creebobby vaults, these notes are certain to perform well, especially when compared to the too-heavy metal Robot Yen and oft-troubled Vampire Euro. Only twenty full sets of all four were produced, limited by the naughty-chic only-twenty-in-the-world exclusive undies.
Set of four: $30 , o r you could get the T-Rex Lincoln by himself for $10
‘Jet-Pack Snow-Pea’
Also just printed, this brand new Creebobby Comics print features ‘Snow-Pea the Dog’ escaping the fence once and for all! This two-color artist-pulled signed and numbered limited edition of 30 measures 12″ by 12″ and fits right into a standard LP Record frame, all for $15.
All prints are signed and numbered AND printed by Jacob, for sale in the brand new Jacob Borshard section of the Nakatomi store!
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Clint Wilson has been on fire recently! (Someone should get a bucket of water!).
Today, Clint is releasing 4 new prints- The above Get Up Kids poster, an ART PRINT of the same print w/out text (very pretty), and the below Neko Case and AFI screenprints!
All these prints were produced by Clint in the Nakatomi Print Labs, and are in limited hand signed and numbered editions. Check ‘em out in the Gigposters section of the Nakatomi Store! (The art print of the Get Up Kids is in the Art Prints section, fyi!)
Posted by Thunderlips on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Remember when monsters were cool? I grew up on monster movies, good and bad. Scary or funny. It seemed like if you had a vampire or werewolf in something, I was going to love it.
And then came Stephanie Meyers and her book, Twilight. Followed by sequels, movies, and millions of girls and women lacking something in their lives or significant others. The same kind of girls that never in a million years would have watched a real monster movie before they made one where shirtless models prance around and stared at each other longingly. These books and films have no blood, no sex – the two ingredients crucial to making the perfect monster. No, these creatures of the night talk about feelings without actually doing anything about them.
Yeah, I’m a hater. But come on, they’re all so pretty!
Where are all the Count Orloks of yesteryear? Where did you go, Lon Chaney?
I’m taking monsters back. Sorry, ladies… but you should have stuck with magic ponies and Lisa Frank stickers. Now that you’ve made monster movies into a sparkly bazillion dollar franchise, everyone is going to copy your success… and I can’t allow that to happen. It’s my mission – my destiny – to show the world how much better Twilight would be with REAL monsters, like Grandpa Al Lewis.
Kids these days. No chutzpah.
Twilight Saga: New Moon, featuring the O. D. (Original Dracula)
The plot: Distraught by being left by Edward Cullen and his sparkling magicness, a lonely Bella befriends a new transplant to Forks, Washington. Royalty from an exotic place that isn’t in the Pacific Northwest (Pittsburgh, maybe? She’s sure he said Pennsylvania.) has arrived, and Count Dracula has set his transfixing gaze on that sweet piece of Bella-bait. He likes ‘em young, dumb, and ready to come… over to talk about what their relationship means and how their spiritual bond is stronger than any physical one would be. Then he bites her and makes her get him snacks in the form of other high school girls.
Because that’s how Lugosi rolls, playa.
Panty-Check: In an effort to prove real monsters can be just as lucrative and sexy to Twilight’s key demographic as a pale kid with perfectly-mussed hair and Revlon-brand plum lipstick, I reviewed the plot with four 18-year-old Twilight fans, and one 36-year-old mother. Then, under the most clinical conditions, their panties were checked for saturation levels. I know, being a scientist is my burden. Twilight with the O.D. scored pretty well, particularly with a couple of the girls with daddy issues. The mom brought the average down quite a bit, being bone dry from a lack of cougar appeal.
Monster Rating: Like Edward ever stood a chance. In a surprising scene, Dracula scolds the undead poser by revealing the Cullen whelp as a living, breathing kid from Akron, Ohio with glitter make-up applied liberally around his much fawned-over body. Then he makes him get some more high school girls. Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.
Twilight Meets The Monster Cereals
The Plot: Yogurt said it best in Spaceballs: “Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!” Young Edward Cullen has taken this lesson to heart, introducing an exciting line of Twilight-themed journals, charm necklaces, sparkle-action vibrators, and a best-selling line of “How to Imagine Your Boyfriend is Edward” self-help books. But as the cash rolls in, the shift in licensing dollars is noticed by the unholy lord of cocoa: Count Chocula! The General Mills nosferatu seeks to acquire Edward’s sensitive, sales-savvy power of charm for himself… at any cost.
But the local wolf pack will have none of it. In a desperate attempt to resurrect and achieve the market dominance he once had, pack leader Fruit Brute makes an offer the ashen representatives of Cullen, Inc. cannot refuse: pitch for the Brute, or suffer the same fate as the upstart Fruity Yummy Mummy. Can the Houses of Cullen and Chocula strike a devil’s bargain to defeat the beastly toasted oat shillers and enjoy a tenuous balance where both can take advantage of brand-recognition? And can they build a legitimate infringement case against the makers of this fine product?
The Vampire Fleshlight. Yes, it’s real. Yes, you put your Lil’ Edward in there.
Panty-Check: I spilled a bowl of BooBerry on one of the girls. Does that count?
Monster rating: They’re more silly than scary, but the real Fah-rooooOOOOooooOOOOOoooot flavor goes along way with me.
Teen-Wolves, Too: New Moon
The plot: Scott Howard is going through changes. The girl of his dreams won’t give him the time of day, his basketball team sucks, and he just found out he’s a werewolf. And as if that isn’t enough, four really buff dudes that live half-nakedly out on a “reservation” together are horning in on his wolf action!
But with the help of his pal Stiles, who is making an absolute mint off selling knock-off Twilight merchandise, and his long-time companion Boofella, Scott might just have what it takes to defeat moody bully Edward Cullen and his coven of starved American Apparel models in time to prove who the Big Wolf on Campus is!
Panty-Check: Remember when Michael J. Fox was considered sexy? Neither do these girls. But they did admit to tingles when they saw the Wolfmobile:
Who WOULDN”T get a little saucy over that ride?
Monster Rating: Okay, so Teen Wolf doesn’t really inspire fear or dread. But he is fun, and exactly what the ever-mopey Twilight franchise could use a little bit of. Plus, he’s living proof that you don’t have to shop at the Victorian Glamour section of Target to be in a monster movie.
There’s a Vampire at the End of this Movie!
The Plot: Taking more from the Sesame Street children’s classic in which Grover warns the reader of their impending run-in with a monster, this Children’s Television Workshop adaptation of the Twilight series stars Count von Count in an exciting counting adventure for all ages.
…and yet, there’s still more sex than in Twilight.
Panty-Check: It seemed like a snoozer until Robert Pattinson showed up in a special guest appearance. Despite the Count’s count of Pattinson’s eyebrows (ONE! Ah-ah-ah!), studies showed an increased moistness when the fan-favorite actor stood there with his mouth open for three (THREE! Ah-ah-ah!) uninterrupted minutes.
Monster Rating: Yes, the Count is a felt send-up of the original with a predilection for numerology. But that puppet is still more convincing as a dread creature of the night than the entire cast of both Twilight films. For one (ONE! Ah-ah-ah!), he has FANGS. Secondly (TWO! Ah-ah-ah!), he has bats flying around him. And finally… 666 is the number of the beast. (THREE SIXES! Ah-ah-ah!)
An American Werewolf in Twilight
The Plot: Despite warnings from the local hicks to stay away from the woods for fear of pretty teenagers running up trees, two hiking buddies are attacked by a big honkin’ wolf. While one is horrendously slaughtered by the beast, the other survives the attack because of the timely intervention of Edward Cullen and his clan of kissy-faces. But young David is never the same, and is cursed not just with becoming a huge, slavering wolf during a full moon, but also maddening visits from his dead friend who insists the only way to find peace is to kill himself.
Pretty emo, right? Hardly. That’s the COMICAL part of the movie. Then David turns into a werewolf.
Fucking scary, right? Now compare to THIS:
Almost 30 years later, and that’s how the painful curse of lycanthropy is depicted? Man, fuck CGI. Anyways, David looks to his new friends for help, but they’re too busy standing around looking desperately/hungrily/blankly at each other. Until this thing shows up and slaughters them all.
These guys scared the hell out of me. Can you imagine this in Twilight? Yeah, right.
So David loses his battle, but not before viciously devouring the oddly-hairless Calvin Klein wolfboys out on their Spirit Quest. Because these hand lotion abusers aren’t WEREWOLVES:
HE is:
Panty Check: Oh, they were soaked, alright. But I’m pretty sure it’s from being piss-scared.
Monster Rating: The fact that other werewolf movies were even allowed to be made after 1981, a year that saw An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, AND Wolfen… well, that’s just a shame. But New Moon even existing is a dick-slap to the face of every great horror movie ever. Even the crappy Underworld movies knew to respect what came before them, at least a little.
Twilight: The Fan Fiction
The Plot: That last entry bummed me out. Classic monster movies are as dead as Bela Lugosi. So I give up. For the last film, I added to the cast of Twilight a number of mass-appeal bloodsuckers, including Angel and Spike from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, Brad Pitt from Interview with a Vampire, the girlie-looking guy from Queen of the Damned, and Harry Potter because… well, why the hell not. They all get into a big-ass hair-pulling match for Bella’s affections, then start making out with each other. Poor Bella doesn’t know who to choose, so she sticks with her beloved Edward (once he stopped dry humping that wizard kid). They live happily ever after and have vampire babies, and… oh, that’s really how the series ends? Holy shit.
Panty-Check: It took the selfless heroism and combined effort of Michael Knight, his car KITT, and the A-Team to save me from drowning.
Monster Rating: Pfffffft.
So that’s it. Monsters lose to gaunt, pale kids that forgot how to use their testosterone. If I seem sad, or bitter, it’s because one of my favorite things was taken away from me and made into a chick flick. Ladies, that’s like if someone took the idea of unicorns and made a billion dollars by depicting them as fuck-crazy hell-beasts bent on shitting on everyone for laughs and screwing buttholes with their spiked horns. You’d feel a little violated, right?
Ummmm… okay, that’s it, because I just got a great idea for a new book series.
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Hellooooo Austin!
If you’re in the Austin area, swing by TODAY (Saturday November 14th) and Sunday, as well as next weekend, as we’re taking part in the East Austin Studio Tours at Jacob Borshard’s house/studio (Stop #24).
Jacob will have his Nakatomi prints up, as well as 2 brand new screen print SETS (so, actually like 8 new prints) debuting at the event!
We’ll be splitting the space with him, so if you’ve had your eye on the Nakatomi site and want to see somethings in person before you purchase, now’s the chance! Tim Doyle will be on hand as well for most of the weekend (and next) along w/ some of his older pre-Nakatomi prints as well!
