Tubarão

Hello again. Long time, no see.

This is the last day of Halloween, and I had promised to contribute to JAWS-o-ween with... a comic! And on the last day... I delivered. I present you... The story I just decided to call Tubarão. Hope you enjoy it!

PS: I couldn't find a way to display the pages here full size without breaking the website layout. We'll look for a solution, but in the meantime, I hope you can read these reduced versions.

Pop Culture Enamel Pins from Clark Orr Design Co.

 I recently have gotten into collecting lapel pins. Yeah, that thing that was once saved for politicians and obsessive Disney fans has become the new Patch Game. So when I heard that Clark Orr Design Co. had released some pop culture centered pins I had to take note and I was not disappointed.

Now, Clark Orr has been unleashing amazing design and brand work for quite some time now, most of it with a heaping helping of popular culture, but for the most part his own personal output has been in the print and sticker field with small runs of stylish t-shirt designs and cool things like 'The Goonies' sport pendents.

So I was going through my Instagram feed one day and found out about Clark's most release. One thing lead to another and I had ordered one of the coolest designed enamel pins ever. Being that Clark Orr is located almost in my backyard turnaround was super short and behold what I received.

Where We're Going We Won't Need Disc Drives (because of...I don't know...the cloud?).

Some songs and themes are superimposed on our memories. A important part of our popular culture is the use of music to accompany visuals, film being one of the most powerful. Sometimes the themes used in certain films become more memorable than the film itself (and in turn, the theme relevance saves the film from total obscurity). We may at times even forget where the musical cue originated from but the connection is so powerful we still associate the film's mood with the score.

I once had a professor who played the 'Halloween' theme on a piano to illustrate the use of suspense through tone. He choose that particular piece not because it was a particularly frightening selection of music but more because most of us connect it to a foreboding sense of tension, even if we don't instantly recall which film it came from. We just "know that tune".

Not my professor, but the point is illustrated. Video by Ibish Comedy.

The same can go for the like of the 'Jurassic Park' theme or Singin' in the Rain, these songs are ingrained in our collective memories. Being part of our collective memory makes them easier for use to recognize when used in different contexts. Artists can play with this by taking these songs and reconfiguring them in unique mediums. Look at all the 8-bit chiptunes or a cappella renditions of cultural standards that are so plentiful on the internet. 

Well, today we bring you another interpretation made possible through the application of technology. The tune? The 'Back to the Future' theme. The mode for the delivery? Disk drives. 

Video by Arganalth.