Sentences with phrase «of pop culture icons»

Many of our pop culture icons from Tina Turner to Bob Dylan are seniors, with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones and many others in the same demographic.
His watercolor paintings of pop culture icons, logos, and cartoon characters use unseemly pieces to build an image.
New York - based artist Adam Lister creates «8 - bit» watercolor versions of pop culture icons and famous paintings.
Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases the viewers» perceptions and expectations, signifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.
His work is influenced by an array of pop culture icons, comic book heroes, Japanese anime, and street art pioneers Jean - Michel Basquiat, KAWS and Keith Haring.
Her blown glass and neon sculptures of pop culture icons are playful and impossible not to notice.
Anthea Hamilton is a UK - based artist who creates multi-media installations that resemble theatrical stages or film sets and incorporate arrangements of prop - like objects, references to modernist paintings, and appropriated images of pop culture icons such as blow - ups of John Travolta in John Travolta, Bust - like, 2012.
Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases viewers» perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.
Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases the viewers» perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.
Akira Beard, a San Francisco based artist and teacher at the Academy of Art University, is well known for his engaging watercolor portraitures of pop culture icons.
He's become something of a pop culture icon.

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As the chairman of SolarCity, and the founder of Tesla, he has rightfully positioned himself as both an innovator and a pop - culture icon of what powers the future.
Along with the former Mars Hill pastor and best - selling author, a group of «handpicked thought leaders and pop culture icons» will be speaking along with Oprah during each «transformational weekend.»
A frequently fascinating romp through American culture with the emphasis on pop culture (some would say there is no other kind), showing the myriad ways in which the figure of Jesus has been detached from theological or churchly connections to become an icon for the promotion of almost anything.
When I try to think of the ultimate pop culture icon for modern day parenting, the image that instantly comes to my mind is a mother reading a worn - out paperback copy of Baby and Childcare by Dr. Benjamin Spock (probably given to her by her mother!).
Politics is a part of pop culture, so a guy like Barack Obama can become a pop culture icon.
A pop culture icon and ground - breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science.
One of those was a young postdoctoral research fellow named Sheena Josselyn, a petite, red - haired native of Ohio with a passion for pop culture icons like Jerry Seinfeld and Tom Cruise.
As a pop - culture icon, he brought physics to the masses and inspired a generation of physicists, most famously with his book A Brief History of Time.
The collaboration between Pantone and A&E networks was a joining of like - minded creatives who wanted to come together to create a distinctive shade in a unique medium in honor of this world renown pop culture icon
Meme Status Confirmed Year 2007 Origin 4chan Tags rick roll, rickrolling, rick astley, music video, 80s, bait, pop icon, pop culture obscura, blacklist Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution.
Find out more about reality star and social media icon, Kylie Jenner, a member of pop culture's famous Kardashian / Jenner family, at.
Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star.
A concise summary of the «plot» of Meet the Spartans is not possible, but suffice it to say that the film generally follows the outline of last year's 300, with detours along the way to reference other recent films and pop culture icons.
Travolta and Jackson as Vincent and Jules respectively, became pop culture icons delivering some of the most darkly humorous lines from the mind of Quentin Tarantino.
The company says the phrase points to the status of Donkey Kong as a pop culture icon.
Waters» film aptly mocks the gallows frenzy of the murderer - celebrity, reveling in the grotesque pleasure derived from these monsters we hail as pop culture icons.
Jump - started by a stable of Hollywood big shots like Richard Donner, Joel Silver, and Robert Zemeckis, the show was a hit, and the wisecracking «Crypt Keeper» who introduced each episode quickly became a pop - culture icon.
With good reason, too: as writer and director of the Back to the Future movies, he's a pop culture icon for more than one generation (and his DeLorean is every bit the hero of the movie as Parzival).
, he also preceded Ready Player One in dreaming up the idea of people interacting with beloved pop culture icons (to a level of studio cooperation few believed would ever happen again... before Spielberg signed on for this film).
Play as one of many famous, but for legal purposes, slightly different pop culture icons and verbally spar with other Hollywood elitists using a deep battle system.
The first film to feature pop culture icon Hannibal Lecter (here called Dr. Lecktor), Michael Mann «s Manhunter (which shoulda been called Mannhunter) is very 80s and very inferior to the award winning installation, Silence of the Lambs, that came on its heels a decade later.
I was really hoping for more features about the involvement of KISS and bringing these two classic pop culture icons together.
Whenever a well - known role is up for grabs, especially when its a comic book character or some other pop - culture icon, stories seem to flood forth from every last corner of the press and blogosphere.
A Nightmare On Elm Street, of course, arrived from horror icon Wes Craven in 1984, making an instant star of Robert Englund and an unlikely, wisecracking pop culture juggernaut of undead child - murderer Freddy.
The latest «effort» from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys responsible for Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, is yet another bottom - feeding cash - grab that exploits current events, ridicules pop culture icons and compromises the integrity of the zeitgeist itself in order to create, oh, one - quarter to one - half of a funny joke within the shortest possible time frame that qualifies as a theatrical release.
Or even the simple recognition of some prominent person or event in recent history that the filmmakers deemed a noteworthy pop culture icon?
At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
The key takeaway from all of this however is that Deadpool's very own feature film is a riotous success laced with the fourth wall breaking, dick - joke quips, bloody dismemberment, and the dementedly twisted snark people have come to love, to transcend the Merc with a Mouth from cult phenomenon to the pop culture symbolic icon status he now carries around today.
The liberal lion of the Supreme Court (and second woman ever to be confirmed to the position) is presented in Betsy West and Julie Cohen's film as equal parts civil - rights pioneer and pop culture icon, with loving scenes of her lifting weights, cracking wise, and being turned into a meme spliced alongside original interviews and archival footage.
It all starts off fairly well, with a random character chosen for you at the beginning of each level; ranging from pixelated army marines to characters clearly inspired by pop culture icons.
Dynamite Entertainment has announced its continuing exploration of a literary icon — and pop culture sensation — with Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man, a new series written by experienced Holmes writers Leah Moore and John Reppion, illustrated by rising talent Julius Ohta, and featuring cover artwork by superstar artist John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men, Star Wars).
The movie welded several icons of pop culture into a virtual wonderland; it's unlike anything seen before it.
This year's Oscar winner for Best Documentary is the incredible story of a Mexican - American songwriter called Rodriguez, who failed miserably in America in the early 70's but became a pop culture icon in South Africa where he found a huge audience.
First up is Poker Night 2, the poker - centric arcade offering that mashes game and pop - culture icons together with cross-promotion unlockables and plenty of cards, now sits at $ 4.99, half off the original price tag.
Cowboys in pop culture are covered in a subsection called «The Cowboy Way,» which presents fun rundowns of great movies and novels and features cool old black - and - white photos of icons such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
Wonderful visual gags, impeccable character voices, and goofy takeoffs on icons of pop culture make this animated short on the painful and embarrassing emotional plight of shyness a delightful study that is, incredibly, both irreverently humorous and respectfully enlightening.
The company has made a name for themselves writing origin stories of famous pop culture icons.
Similarly, Bram Stoker's Dracula has become an icon of pop culture.
Humorist, feminist and pop culture icon Catlin Moran wades into the waters of fiction with her debut, a semi-autobiographical look at a young girl's coming - of - age in the Midlands in the 1980s.
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