The Whaam! Series
Whaam! can be found at the Tate Modern Gallery in London where it has been since the late 1960s.
First made was Star Trek, which remains my favourite to this day. My love of the DeLorean (I *will* own one come one day) means doing Back to the Future was a no brainer. A very good old friend, Peter Stonnell suggested Dalek Exterminate! It was such a good idea I went back to Doctor Who after all...
Live Ammo (Blang!) / Batman Blang!
Fact of the matter is that I just love The Dark Knight Trilogy. You watch Batman Begins and then try and watch the Tim Burton version afterwards. And to think, when I was 12 I queued for 7 hours to watch Michael Keaton and at the time I thought it was the nuts! Like me, it hasn't aged well...
Kiss with Cloud / Han And Leia Kiss
Is it the most famous kiss in movie history? Is this how we want to remember our Star Wars, unscripted and maverick, just like our Han? Do we hope, beyond hope's wildest fantasies, that J. J. Abrams will put right what once went wrong long long ago when George Lucas did exactly what Tim in Spaced said he did?
Grrr! / Alien Grrr!
Come on now, I just had to. What other creature could ever go in there?
I just love the Alien. The Alien is cool. Aliens do not fight Predators by the way. When they do that they are not cool.
And only the first two movies are cool. Vincent Ward's idea for a third would have been cool but there hasn't been much cool since Cameron. Again.
Bratatat! / Darth Bratatat!
It was only a matter of time before the biggest villain in movie history made an appearance. No, I don't want to know that he turned evil because of mummy issues. No, I don't go with the idea that he'd knock up then knock off his missus either. He's just evil. And he likes curry.
The Gun in America / The Light Saber in Star Wars
Lichtenstein's protest piece at the shooting of Bobby Kennedy gets reworked as a protest piece against the wanton overuse of the light saber in the second trilogy of films.
In all fairness, I don't mean to make light of the subject matter - I've done a second, more political reworking of it. At the end of the day I had to give the image it's real due.
Oh Alright! / Oh Alright Burke!
Lichtenstein loved his ladies to be either under stress or alternately wildy and romantically in love. Was there ever a woman under more stess than Ripley?
Yeah, I know it's not a copy of the original but if you watch the film she's on a phone, of sorts, at the time depicted in the painting!
The Girl at the Window / The Joker at the Window
Heath Ledger can never be surpassed with his depiction of the Joker. Now this will be controversial but The Dark Knight was probably the weakest of the three films. However Heath saved it. Blew it out of the park. Aced it. Hole in one. The original piece doesn't lend itself directly to a homage as such, but she's got some Joker like qualities to her.
Tension / The Tension Series
I utterly adore the idea of throwing odd characters into this image. Nick and Simon and Obi and Darth were suggested by my good friends Thomas Clarke and Leon Bowler respectively. My daughter chucked out the suggestion of throwing the Minions in there and I love Wallace and Gromit.
Still to do:
Sloth and Chunk
Jack Torrance and the two dead twin girls
Baldrick and Blackadder
R2D2 and C3-PO
Tinky Winky and Po
In tribute to Wes Craven, who died today.
Hopeless / Iggle Piggle is Hopeless
There has got to be more to life than In the Night Garden, as Iggle Piggle can't help but reflect. He dreams of being an extra in Game of Thrones, but his dreams are cruelly denied. Instead his best and most subtle work is heartbreakingly underappreciated. Iggle Piggle knows that to achieve true greatness you must have the layers of the onion - and each one makes you cry. If only he could be noticed...
The Girl in the Mirror / Travis Bickle in the Mirror
This image can be co-opted for so many different things. I'd like to do a Chewbacca looking in it, in his tux, getting ready to go out. Or Simon Cowell. I always wonder what he thinks when he looks at himself in the mirror.
For this idea I have my great old friend Sarah Bowman to thank for. The idea that Travis Bickle needed to get some extra rehearsal time in tickled my bickle.
