To quote Geekdad, where I first saw this: “Sheer brilliance.”
Tag: Star Wars
Opening credits of Star Wars, Saul Bass-style:
[Wave of the phin to Laughing Squid.]
A couple of weeks ago, I got in close on the little phisch for some camera shots.
Click on the photo to see the entire set.
As a Star Wars geek, I love one-offs and mashups of Star Wars-related stuff. Ceth Stifel, aka “Thumper-001” on deviantART, inspired by a recent trip to Disneyland and the Disney/Star Wars figurines one can purchase there, has created a unique set of mashup art combining my favorite movie franchise with the Disney characters millions have come to know and love.
Donald Duck as Boba Fett, Goofy as Darth Maul, Mickey as Lando Calrissian, as well as a host of other Star Wars characters, Chip and Dale as Wookies. Great, great stuff.
This past Saturday, the missus and I took the little phisch to see The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. The film was released by Universal, and had the studio’s latest audio-visual intro at the beginning, as is the norm for motion pictures. The little phisch leaned over and whispered to me, “Daddy, what music is that?” I told him, and we settled in for a fun time.
That little exchange immediately took my mind back a few weeks before, at the end of 2007, when the missus and I took the little phisch to see Alvin and the Chipmunks. That particular film was released by Twentieth-Century Fox, and its extremely recognizable audio-visual intro rolled at the beginning. Then, the little phisch leaned over and excitedly exclaimed, “Daddy, it’s the Star Wars music!” I smiled broadly, and assured him, that yes, it was indeed “the Star Wars music.”
Amazing how those blaring trumpets and the monolithic wording have become synonymous with Star Wars for him, just as it did for me when I was a boy. To this day, whenever I see or hear that intro, I’m half-expecting the “Star Wars Main Theme” to follow shortly thereafter, or to see “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” centered on the screen.
At least it’s not one of those girly-looking Vespas.
[From Lee, via IM]
The greatest, gutsiest Father’s Day gift set I have ever seen:
Stop and think: what does it say when you give your father a Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker set for Father’s Day?
- “Dad, you are the genocidal embodiment of evil, but I will eventually redeem you”?
- “Dad, you tortured my sister and cut my hand off”?
- “Dad, I’d rather throw myself down to certain destruction than acknowledge you as my father”?
- “Dad, cut back on the smoking”?
[…]
Freud would have had a field day.
I share Bruce’s sentiment, or would, were I at Wallyworld:
I, of course, bought one on the spot.
So, honey, if you happen to make it to Wal-Mart this week before I do…
(Via And Still I Persist.)
Have you ever built your own Darth Vader hot air balloon?
[Via Boing Boing via Twitter Vader.]