Sentences with phrase «with other pop culture»

Not exact matches

Like many others, I took my cues from pop culture, which treats the profession with condescension - laced amusement.

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.

Right as I took the pops out of their mold, Paloma ate one with an impressive speed and proceeded to ask for another, which I gave her with no hesitation, as the pops are full of organic berries, acidophilus and other beneficial yogurt cultures.

Do you love bright pops of color paired with exciting and unique decor elements from other cultures?

He draws his inspiration from the 80's culture with, on the one hand, SF and Horror movies (Blade Runner, Halloween, The Thing), and on the other, the 70's with the italian Giallos of Dario Argento and the dark era of pop - occult culture that ensues.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

This wry, wonderfully detailed film catches the enormous imbalance of a morose teen with no life experience other than the thousands of fictional and pop - culture references that fill his head and his room: A sketch of Woody Allen's head hangs over Oliver's bed.

More than any other type of songwriting, rap lyrics are peppered with pop culture references, from movies to cars to sports to fashion to other rap songs.

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.

The hilarious jokes and jabs are there (with plenty of references to other movies) and so are the many, many zippy pop culture references that go flying by, begging for repeat viewings.

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.

Really, all it is is a cross between Antz (one bug in a colony finding his own path) and Shrek (constant pop culture allusions done in rapid tongue - in - cheek fashion), with perhaps a few dozen others sprinkled here and there.

Other films earning multiple nominations, but absent from the Best Picture field, include Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, with six nominations, Steve Jobs, which landed acting and ensemble recognition, Creed, Ryan Coogler's rebranding of the Rocky franchise (3 nominations), and the pop culture movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which rallied for four technical nominations.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

The giant designs in the graphic novel and upcoming big - screen adaptation take inspiration from other giant monsters in pop culture, like the Ents from Lord Of The Rings, or the kaijū from Pacific Rim, but as the creators tell us, the designs Niimura originally came up with were a bit more phallic.

A self - centered, pop - cultured rich girl who hides her ditziness with a large vocabulary and of - the - moment slang, Cher tries to do some good for others for a change.

Along with co-host and fellow pop culture fanatic Frank Santopadre, Gilbert is joined by actors, directors, writers, comics, musicians, talk show hosts and other eyewitnesses to Hollywood history, including Dick Van Dyke, Bruce Dern, «Weird Al» Yankovic, Michael McKean, Leonard Maltin, Chevy Chase, Judd Apatow, Peter Bogdanovich, Dick Cavett, Steve Buscemi, Micky Dolenz, Bob Costas, Amy Heckerling and MANY more, for a fond, funny, fly - on - the - wall look at showbiz then and now (but mostly then.)

It's a perennial love of pop culture lovers like ourselves (and many other outlets) to celebrate Marvel's latest cinematic offering with another thing we love: ranking their films.

While other animation companies are making films on computers with scripts that focus on pop culture references, the punk rockers at Aardman Animation are doing it, as Sid Vicious once sang with no reverence to Frank Sinatra, their way.

Along with other members of the A.V. Club staff, he co-authored the 2002 interview anthology The Tenacity Of the Cockroach and the new book Inventory, a collection of pop - culture lists.

The «self» credits begin in 1995 and consist of a variety of comedy showcases, including: multiple «HBO Comedy Half - Hour» and «Hollywood Squares» episodes, VH1's «I Love the»80s» and other pop culture specials, two celebrity roasts, and eleven appearances on each «Late Night with Conan O'Brien» and «Jimmy Kimmel Live!»

When much of American pop culture was infatuated with the swinging, psychedelic 1960s, John Frankenheimer was focused on the decade's darker side — the sour aftertaste of McCarthyism, the expanding military - industrial complex, the growing sense that technology might be controlling us instead of the other way around.

The constant barrage of pop culture takedowns and rude behavior in general make it a little harder to accept (at anything other than face value) the «heart» portion of Deadpool 2, which consists mostly of the Firefist father - figure storyline (eerily similar to last year's Logan) and Wade's one - dimensional relationship with fiancée Vanessa (Morena Baccarin).

Couple this pop culture inundation with the growing pressure on teachers to teach from a scripted curriculum, excluding discussions or even reflections, of kindness and other important lifeskills evoking critical thinking from children, and the fertile ground for growing a community focused on kindness is scarce (Darling - Hammond, 2012).

You'll enjoy the most recent articles and information from Acura along with other capriciously comical articles concerning pop culture, celebrities, politics and more!

Busy week here in mid-October — Mother Nature is working hard to transition from summer to fall, and I along with many others are prepping for the last big pop - culture convention of the year, New York Comic Con!

Her work first became popular (and controversial) not because she took J.K. Rowling's world and imagined all - new stories, but because she used it as a template in which she could fit in all of her other pop culture fandom — inserting quippy exchanges from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and passages from authors like Pamela Dean (as this expose detailed) with only minimal changes.

I'll report on my experiences with the trips I've made, and look forward to those I hope to make, while also making room for stuff on traveling, travel writing, and more tenuously related flannel on slow travel, trip planning, independent travel, popular culture, ways to live and whatever other stuff that happens to pop into my befuddled, bearded little head.

This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.

I find it as satisfying as any other pop - culture franchise I enjoy: I rate it up there with Buffy (TV), Harry Potter (books) and Star Wars (film).

As with most other pop culture phenomenons, Vikings popularity guaranteed they made their way into the gaming world.

Scott goes ballistic over the Harry Potter franchise with Twilight, and other than that, a lot of pop culture discussion.

A10The PCL, which we publicly announced in 2009, is crafted with the clear aim of compatibility with Japanese law and Japanese pop culture, so we believe it is difficult to translate it and adapt it to other languages and, in particular, other cultures.

Unlike the annual glut of licensed Monopoly variants that lazily slap on a specific theme from a movie or videogame or some other pop culture work to the board game's standard rules, Monopoly Gamer brings with it a Super Mario Bros. theme alongside a fresh ruleset that streamlines the real estate aspect and peps up the pace to satisfy a gamer's sensibilities.

STREET FIGHTER Pop Culture Shock's line of Street Fighter statues will continue just as they should, with two characters from the franchise trying to beat the digital tar out of each other.

«That Sidibé was a «popular» photographer rather than a satirical pop commentator on vernacular culture — which is to say he was a photographer firmly grounded in his environment who combined work - for - hire portraiture with his own exploratory documentation of the quotidian excitement of his Bamako neighborhood — made him one among several recording angels of a new generation of urban Africans, of which the other most important Malian example was his elder, Seydou Keita.

Beginning with songs blending pop, hip - hop, and R&B, he later got the audience involved through vocal harmonizing and an open discussion about appropriating other cultures.

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.

Snakes, spiders, scorpions, and other bits of nature from his hometown appear mixed in with Catholic symbolism, aliens, gang members, pop - culture references, and commercial imagery, giving brand logos and religious icons the same attention and placement.

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).

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

With one foot in art history and the other in pop culture, Graham explores his own identity.

«With Nigeria, all the tribes mix in, and then the British presence, but then American Pop culture starts coming in, like every other country in the world» (N. A. Crosby, ibid., p. 21).

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.

Instead of an individual style honed over the years, they mixed it up, with expressionist brushstrokes alongside pop culture graphics and any number of other sources.

The exhibition features American pop culture iconography and symbolism, with works by Bernard Buffet, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Insect, Faile, Robert Longo, Ron English, Nick Georgiou, Mark Hogancamp and Romon Yang, among others.

On the other hand, works of pop art based on serial and repetitive principles and inspired by popular media cultures are also found here, with Andy Warhol (Double Elvis; the Campbell's Soup Cans; Screen Tests), Roy Lichtenstein (Drowning Girl) and Romare Bearden (Patchwork Quilt), among others.

But in other cases, you wish the pair had stuck with subtler and more original ways to provoke than just sticking wholesome pop culture imagery into sexual and / or violent settings (i.e. alcoholic Disney characters at a bar; Bugs Bunny holding a shotgun and sodomizing a guy with a carrot).

- a cartoon - style picture of a fighter aircraft firing a rocket at an enemy plane complete with a vivid explosion and the caption «I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky...» Through this and other works, Lichtenstein began to achieve worldwide attention and, arguably - along with Andy Warhol - became one of the leading representatives of Pop art culture.

Be sure not to miss booths by Azart Gallery from New York, focusing on innovative and original work of artists influenced by abstract, figurative, illustration, pop culture and street art; En Foco Gallery from Chicago, a non-profit that supports contemporary primarily U.S. - based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage; Haven Gallery from New York, exhibiting emotionally, intellectually and imaginatively driven, representational artwork; Lilac Gallery from New York, focusing on emerging international artists that explore new media in their concept with cutting edge techniques; Mirus Gallery San Francisco, championing new movements in contemporary art; and Stephen Romano Gallery from New York, amongst others.