Bujinga (武人画) evolved during Japan's Kamakura period. Bujin (武人) means warrior and ga (画) is painting and often capture the legacy of samurai warriors. Artist Masayuki Kojo renders figures from the Empire in the world of Star Wars.
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“The Tyrant is over 56 inches (1.4m) long and weighs approximately 70 lbs (32kg) with a full load (the interior adds a lot of weight),” explains the author. “That makes it about 20 inches longer — and quite a few times heavier — than the classic LEGO UCS version.“
The limited edition (a run of about 200 prints) Star Wars Ukiyo-e prints uses the imagery licensed from Lucas Films to create this centuries old technique called ukiyo-e.
Ukiyo-e is an art with three different people working together: the eshi (painter), horishi(carver) and surishi (printer). Together, these skilled craftsman created 3 different scenes from Star Wars, each in a limited edition run of 200. And
Launched on Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake, the project got backers putting down 54,000 yen (about $440) for a single print. The full set at 162,000 yen (about $1300) is already sold out.
Very much in the visual style of Studio Ghibli (creators of Totoro, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke), illustrator Lap Pun Cheung brings us some tasty scenes of the Star Wars epic that I will gladly watch all over again if ever it is remade this way.
French photographer Sacha Goldberg (the photographer who brought us Mamika) has created this series of characters from the world's superheroes, storybooks and Star Wars and styled them like something from 17th-century Flemish paintings.
As part of a design assignment, Thai art student Chawakarn Khongprasert made these illustrated scenes.
ADAM WOODWORTH, a hardware engineer at Google has a detailed step-by-step of his mod of a quadrotor to become an Imperial Speeder with a first-person camera to boot. Check out the photos.
There is very little that needs to be said about these.
Denver-based artist Derek Keenan create this AT-AT Walker (16″ tall by 17″ long) out of recycled skateboards for a Star Wars-themed group show, Deathstar Blues at the Black Book Gallery in Denver.
The Bayeux Tapestry is the record of the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. In a similar style, London-based designer and illustrator Aled Lewis handstitched The Coruscant Tapestry, telling the entire Star Wars epic in pictures, and Aurebesh lettering.
Luke and Leia, Vader, the Clone Army, the Emperor, C3PO, Han; it's all there. And just $20,000 at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.
The models Vesa Lehtimaki used for his Star Wars Scale Model Project are old MPC models from his son's toy collection, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Fun and stylish Star Wars themed parkour video.
Avanaut (aka Vesa Lehtimäki) and his use of light, perspective and inexpensive props, produced some very cool dramatic scenes full of motion with miniatures and models.
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A fan of Star Wars took it upon himself to make this awesome animated sequence (without sound right now).
The very first 5 things post was two years ago today (August 11, 2010 in case you are interested). In that time we've met an incredible set of people, been priviledged enough to work with some of the most talented photographers and video folk. Thank you. For your talent, intelligence, support, encouragement and interest. All the best things are in front of us.
(McFadden Creative; DevereauChumrau.com; Aren't We Clever Productions; SethSherman.com; SouloVisual; Gabriel Hernandez Photos)
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