I love Jim Hance’s painting that adds a little Star Wars to the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, titled Force by Northwest:
Click the painting to see it at full size.
On the painting’s page on the Artbreak site, it says “Acrylic on wood board painting, scanned and digitally manipulated.” Signed prints are available!
In case you don’t recognize the scene, here’s a still from the scene that inspired it:
And here’s the scene:
Photo courtesy of “rem”.
Allen Stern blogs about a sign that’s outside Rice to Riches, a rice pudding place in New York City’s East Village:
The sign reads:
Help Wanted
Start a career in the fascinating, fast-paced lucrative pudding business
- Long hard hours
- Very low pay
- Lots of heavy lifting
- Work for a ball-busting asshole
- Dead-end job
- No benefits
- No advancement
- Must be college grad
Start immediately
It’s attention getting; Allen says that he saw a number of people read the sign and as a result step into the store. There’s more in his blog entry about the sign.
I wonder how many people read it and thought “Sounds great! Where do I sign up?”
I don’t normally vandalize signs, but I’d make an exception for this special case:
Stefan Arentz, a co-member of HacklabTO, sent me the photo. He says that it was put up by a Dutch cafe owner to ban accordion-playing gypsies.
Saw this stuff for the first time last night at the grocery store — “Spicy Szechwan Kraft Dinner”:
(For readers in the United States, what gets sold as “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese” where you’re from is sold as “Kraft Dinner” in Canada.)
I can’t imagine it being any good, but I feel compelled to give it a try, just once. Maybe at my next grocery run.
