Sentences with phrase «pop culture icons as»

To me, a perfect Halloween costume is recognizable but just a little under the radar, so get nostalgic and think about your favorite toys, movie characters or pop culture icons as a kid.

Well, while some people are quick to throw out names from Tekken and SoulCalibur (likely the same ones who think it should have been Ryu or someone else from Capcom, rather than Mega Man), the obvious choice is the company mascot — especially when said mascot is not only a company icon, but a gaming icon and a pop culture icon as well.

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While rich history gives The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf ® a certain gravitas that only experience can lend, the years have also cemented the brand as an enduring pop culture icon with a loyal following.

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.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, therefore, that big name actors, singers and other pop culture icons are giving online dating a shot.

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.

There are the pop culture icons who show up as themselves, appear in a single scene, and provide a quick, hearty, and enduring laugh.

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.

With an Oscar race that's filling up with actresses portraying pop culture icons (Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, Naomi Watts as Princess Diana), it...

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).

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.

I wish the same could be said about Chris Pine, but after already reviving one pop culture icon with Captain Kirk, his casting as Ryan is uninspired to say the least.

Taking aim at everything and everyone, from «Indiana Jones» and «Iron Man» to Amy Winehouse and High School Musical., DISASTER MOVIE lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer satirize everything as only they can.

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.

Reynolds is a good enough actor that Wade Wilson's pain and despair and confusion register as strongly, and are as important to the character and his performance, as the fourth wall - shattering sassiness and boyish irreverence that hasn't just made ol' Pool a bona fide pop culture icon but have transcended the movie and bled all over pop culture.

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.

Pupils will discuss and justify reasons for succession with regards to pop culture (pop icons have been given as examples based on popularity, success and family ties).

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.

Ten years into her run as Penny on CBS» The Big Bang Theory, Kaley Cuoco is a certified pop - culture icon.

Simply put, when a game, TV show, or type of music attains status as a pop - culture icon, it makes a ton of money, then everyone in the industry tries to create their own version of it to capitalize on the craze.

Hernan finds inspiration for games from many sources; certainly from games they have played, but also from books Hernan read as a child, anime, comics, TV series, movies, and even pop culture icons such as Billy Idol or Joey Tempest.

Along with key artworks, both editions include: Written history of the origins and evolution of Sonic the Hedgehog as a pop culture icon.

Celebrating his 20 - year anniversary, Crash Bandicoot returns in 2016 as Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), features the pop - culture videogame icon as a guest star in Skylanders ® Imaginators.

Game franchises such as Call of Duty or Halo have gone from being mere video games to pop culture icons, spawning their own lingo, merchandise, and memes.

And after more than a decade as one of the most popular franchises in the music genre, DanceDanceRevolution has transcended from a video game into a pop culture icon.

Musical icons Prince, David Bowie, and Jimi Hendrix brought shades of Ultra Violet to the forefront of western pop culture as personal expressions of individuality.»

«The secret to our gallery's success was finding a niche that worked for us and really focusing all of our efforts there,» says Katie Cromwell, co-founder of Gallery1988 (www.nineteeneightyeight.com), a world - renowned destination for pop culture - themed art that boasts two locations in the Los Angeles area and has collaborated with such entertainment icons as Spider - Man creator Stan Lee and the Beastie Boys.

The individual likenesses (artist peers like Faith Ringgold and Nancy Spero were joined as the decades progressed by icons of pop culture such as Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, and Faye Dunaway) dissolved into a complex biomorphic hallucination.

Designing Women celebrates female icons in TV, music, pop culture and history, as seen through the eyes of LAND's artists.

Vallejo creates striking, dynamic images as the discrete dots coalesce into semi-abstract ideas, pop culture icons, and sculptural forms.

Described as a «modern - day dandy» and is known for exhibitions combining sculpture, film and performance, many referencing pop culture icons such as the Simpsons and Felix the Cat.

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.

He is well known for his advertisements and creating artwork for pop culture icons such as commissions from The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others.

The process by which the artworks are cast in urethane add to the blankness, as the artist has to fill in the puff stickers with paint to recapture the pop culture icons and weather them to recreate the look of the original.

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.

Emerging with the New York City graffiti and street art movement of the 1980s, Scharf's imagery draws upon pop icons, media advertising and consumer culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons.

Brazilian artist, Ana Smile, has created a bit of controversy with her company Santa Blasphemy, which creates plaster religious statues painted in the form of pop - culture icons such as Batman, Frida Kahlo, Catwoman, Captain Hopper, The Joker, and Minnie Mouse.

An upcoming retrospective at London's Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the pop icon as an artist in his own right, a meticulous shaper of his image who worked with artists and photographers to sculpt Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and his other culture - making personae.

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.

This exhibition presents Warhol's book work, from early student - work illustrations of the late 1940s, through to his careers as a commercial artist in the 1950s, Pop fine artist and underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and photographer and Pop culture icon of the 1970s — 80s.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

The pop culture icon is a self - professed professional doodler, as well as a popular author, fashion designer and producer.

Inspired by popular culture in all its forms, Sidoli places a special emphasis on Bowie as a pop icon, crediting the release of his 1971 album «Hunky Dory» as a defining moment in his development as an artist.

By the 1960s and 1970s, his well - known images of the Twentieth Century Fox logo, gas stations, and other icons of American culture — as well as his association with the renowned Ferus Gallery group — had established him a leader in the West Coast Pop art movement.

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

Dating as far back as the 1990s and extending to the present, the exhibition reveals the artist's wry treatment of pop culture and his appropriation of its symbols and icons.

Replacing classical icons with symbols of contemporary pop culture such as taco trucks, canned beans, and an alter ego named Spaztek, Ortiz's work maintains a tense relationship with consumerism and his heritage.

His imagery draws upon pop icons, media advertising and consumer culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons.