Berlin, Germany based artist Sanja Zakovska created this fun series called The Lost Family Portraits. It depicts some of our favorite Sci-Fi icons in antique style portraits. The best one is the Alien/Predator family portrait with Predator dad, Alien mom and Facehugger child.
This is a clever and fun series that puts some familiar faces into our past and lets us view them as if in a scrapbook.
If you’re looking for a unique way to display your vintage Star Wars figures, this coffee table is perfect. This made-to-order coffee table will hold all 100 original vintage Kenner Star Wars figures or other figures.
It is a more elegant action figure solution, from a more civilized age. Honestly, this is the classiest piece of action figure storage I have ever seen. Every geek should have one.
Check out what Ant-Man would look like as a 1950s B-Movie. Director Peyton Reed drew a lot of inspiration from these old movies. He watched all of the classic shrinking films from years past to prepare for Ant-Man. And now Vulture has put together this fun fake trailer that imagines Ant-Man as one of those classic movies. It’s a fun take on Ant-Man and I almost wish we could see something like this today.
It uses some footage from The Incredible Shrinking Man with footage from Ant-Man’s trailers. The Vincent Price narration makes it totally work.
Behance user Leolux IV has made some super cool and retro pulp magazine covers for familiar modern Sci-Fi shows and movies. I can easily imagine these as actual pulp covers had these shows and movies arrived decades earlier.
I love what he did with these. The Star Trek one with Carol Marcus is the best! I hope he makes more. I would collect the hell out of these if they were real.
io9 commenter poorfishy made these cool TV and movie posters, inspired by rock album covers. I really like them and need them now to hang on my walls. Han Solo and Greedo in Grease. Sign me up. It’s like seeing vintage vinyl album covers from an alternate reality.
There’s The Beatles, Duran Duran, The Who, Olivia Newton John, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses and more all mashed up with some of our favorite characters.
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The talented Phil Postma did these excellent Star Wars cards based on Topps’ series 1 trading cards from 1977, only from the perspective that Pixar did Star Wars. These cards are awesome. And this is exactly what Star wars would look like if Pixar had created the movie.
I would love to see his take on some of the other series of Star wars cards. The art is top notch.
20th Century Fox created a ton of promotional material for the original 1968 Planet Of The Apes movie. These two-color “door panel” posters for theaters are just one example. They do a great job of introducing the various characters from the film by giving you some large print action so that you want to see it.
These posters were pretty common in the 60s, but by a decade or so later they were already on their way out. Which is too bad, because they really make an impact. I wish they still promoted films like this today.
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Etsy seller BeatUpCreations takes old antique and beat up plates and transforms them into beautiful works of art. Many have a modern theme. In their shop you can find everything from Pee-Wee Herman to Mr. T, to David Bowie on antique plates. My favorites are the Star Wars pieces that they’ve created.
Most of them are classic paintings with a Star Wars twist. They are an amazing mix of old and new. Just the right kind of geeky to hang on your home or office wall. The C-3PO plate just makes me laugh, but I want them all.
At Celebration IV in 2007, the original Vader Project had artists decorate and alter full sized Darth Vader helmet replicas. You’ve seen them around and probably marveled at how creative people can get with Darth Vader’s head. Artists turned Vader into a clown, the Statue of Liberty and much more. You can check them out at thevaderproject.com. It’s awesome stuff.
Well, now the Celebration Track has invited artists and collectors to decorate vintage Darth Vader action figure carrying cases. These cases will be shown throughout Celebration Anaheim in the Collector’s Track Social Room. They look amazing. I want to paint my old case now. See some of them below. For more info head here.
When computers were new and people could actually afford them, computer companies were getting all kinds of famous faces to hawk their wares. And computer makers had to show us what we could do with computers. This led to some famous people starring in some silly commercials.
Below are two of my favorites. One starring William Shatner, the other series starring Tom Baker and Lala Ward as the Doctor and Romana. The latter has all kinds of vintage charm.
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