The Road to Shermer : A Tribute to John Hughes

If you live in the Southern California area, you should definitely check out Gallery 1988. Its like an art gallery for people who don't want to go to art galleries.  They do all kinds of cool shows and showcase a bunch of upcoming artists.  I went to the "Gremlins, Ghostbusters, and Goonies" exhibit and it was awesome.

A new exhibit is opening tomorrow at their Venice gallery showcasing some artwork inspired by John Hughes, the acclaimed 80s movie director who brought us Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and a ton others.

50 artists contributed to the gallery but none more awesome, talented and super cool as my good buddy, Jordan Buckley. He's been destroying the art world with his brand of highly detailed, disgustingly beautiful pieces for the past couple years and is only getting better as time goes on.  I'm proud of him, so go out and support him, you bums.

His piece is best described in his own words:
Doing research for my contribution to Gallery 1988’s upcoming tribute to John Hughes sure was stressful. I had to watch “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Uncle Buck” and “Ferris Bueller”. But it wasn’t until I rewatched “The Great Outdoors” for the 30th time that inspiration struck in the form of a purple grizzly bear rump. In my version, though, all is forgiven.

The exhibit opens tomorrow from 7-10pm at:
214 Pier Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405

For more information about the exhibit go to www.GALLERY1988.com.

While you're at it, follow Jensen Karp on twitter.  He helps run the gallery and his tweets are LOLz-heavy.

Fantastic Fou...Wait, What Now?

If I read any comics besides the ULTIMATE series, I'd know what the hell was going on. New suits, some kind of 3 logo, The Thing is throwing two kids on some sort of Fantasticar, and Spider-Man is lurking.  I guess Johnny Storm is dead, or something?

That's the type of journalism you can expect from your friends at Brain Dead Blog.

UPDATE : The always correct Wikipedia says that Johnny Storm dies after stopping a horde of monsters from the Negative Zone.  Really? The Negative Zone? Has ANY story involving the Negative Zone ever gone well? If Reed Richards so damn smart, how come he act so dam stoopid?

UPDATE v2 : I think Spider-man looks cool in this outfit.  It clearly won't be when he's rolling solo, so why not.

UPDATE v3 : Loyal BrainDeadBlog reader Jordan Buckley (Loyal? No. Reader? Probably not) brought up a good point via twitter :"He died so that he could be Captain America".

He went on to say: "(get it)?"

Then ended with: "(because the same actor that played Johnny Storm in the F4 movie is now playing Captain America in the Captain America movie)".

I think he's on to something.

UPDATE v4:

This has just been confirmed: the kid who played Andy Keaton (Alex's younger brother) on Family Ties will now play any and all renditions of Johnny Storm, even in the comics.

This makes me sick.  Just like Hollywood to bring in a cute kid to create interest.