Futurama would be nothing without Bender and if he were in 2001: A Space Odyssey, he’d steal the show in that too. Check out this fun video of voice actor John DiMaggio doing a scene as HAL 9000 as Bender. This is guaranteed to make you laugh.
SagittariusGallery adds all kinds of pop culture references to Van Gogh’s classic Starry Night. Characters like Stewie from Family Guy, ships like TIE Fighters and much more. It’s simply what Van Gogh would have done if he were a geek living in the modern age. Or at least, that’s what I like to think. It combines the best of pop culture with fine art.
Check out these awesome hand-stitched pop culture portraits by Edinburgh-based artist SquidStitches. She likes to create colorful portraits of pop culture icons in the style of Medieval religious art. It is most definitely a winning combination. Classic and geeky at the same time.
Check out these delicious and geeky cookies made by mother and daughter team ButterWinks. They love to create edibles that are based on pop culture characters and they do a fantastic job. These cookies are not only delicious, they are works of art. You can see some of our favorites right here, then make sure you check out their Instagram page for more. Great, now I’m hungry. I wish I had one of those Doctor Who Dalek cookies. Yeah, we’ll see who exterminates who pal.
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Alex Solis has created an art series that shows familiar pop culture characters in disguise as other pop culture characters. Below are just a few to whet your appetite. He has many more on his Instagram page. I’m not sure why, but there is something very appealing about seeing these characters inside of other characters. I really like that Gizmo is hiding inside of a Furby. I knew it all along.
French artist Georges le Mercenaire created this series that imagines famous Pop Culture characters, mostly robots, as fossils dug up by some fictional future generation. Below are just some of them. I love art like this that thinks outside of the box and shows you familiar things in new ways. It’s a fantastic concept.
Among the Sci-Fi characters presented here are Twiki from Buck Rogers, a Cylon, an AT-AT, Darth Vader, Bender from Futurama and more.
Bite my shiny metal bat! What? Andy Whittingham created this fun mashup featuring our favorite wisecracking robot, Bender Bending Rodríguez as, well, just about every geek character we love. Bender as Batman, Bender as Boba Fett, C-3PO and more.
Bender’s camouflage technique is is pretty awesome, now if he could only change his shape, we might be fooled.
If the ancient Egyptians worshiped Comic Book characters and Sc-Fi icons the way we do, this is exactly what their tombs would look like. Illustrator Josh Ln created this series of geeky hieroglyph style art and very appropriately calls it “Hero-glyphics”.
Best of all, you don’t need to be an Indiana Jones type to decipher them. I mean it’s pretty obvious that Han shot first and that Kirk battled the Gorn. If you like what you see, you can even buy prints from his Society6 store.
What can you say but wow? The folks over at Tested created an ultra-realistic mask of Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from Futurama. Every detail is just spot on. The included video shows the process. The end result is a custom-sculpted mask that looks so realistic that it is… Well, a bit terrifying.
The whole process is amazing to watch, even after seeing all of these GIFs in action. Check it out for yourself. I don’t think that anyone can beat this Futurama cosplay. Ever!
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