Street Art Meets Super Heroes In Artist Dillon Boy's Work....

There is nothing I enjoy more than finding a cool artists work on Instagram or the Internet, no matter how late to the party I may be. Artist James 'Dillon Boy' Wright has been on the scene for a minute (his Obama 'Hope' poster concoction got him into Time Magazine way back in 2008) and I have seen a few of his pieces over the years. But I just found his Instagram page and was blown away by some of the work he had going on. He has a 'Western Grafitti' series that portrays some of your favorite superheroes in western style get-ups, guns a blazing. Then he has his crazy Disney princess re-creations, or his 'superheros meet real life' mash-ups like 'Nobody Likes The Thing' (my personal fave) which puts these extraordinary characters into real life situations (Thing is getting no likes or comments on Instagram... lol). His shit is dope... and like a typical creative artist he doesn't just stop at the actual artwork. If you look at the contents of his Instagram feed in grid format he takes close ups of his work and makes 6 and 9 square collages that supersize his pieces. A pretty great way to show of the detail of his pieces. So even though I may be a bit late to the party on Dillon Boy's work, it is never to late to give a cat his props when they are due. Check out his Big Cartel store, where you can cop some of his crazy cool art at a relatively cheap price for such a big shot artist. Check out my faves after the jump...



Western Graffiti series faves:

Superheroes with real problems:

Cap, Grid Style:

2008 Time Magazine article about Obama, Dillon's piece is circled....

    

Disney Princesses Get The Proper Period Dress Code Adjustments...

Disney is notorious for developing a intricate back story to go along with all their animated features. They are often set in a very specific period of time and have the backdrop of some real life event... think The Little Mermaid during the age of European sea exploration, Mulan taking place during the Ming dynasty in China and Pocahontas being set in the US Colonies. But they could have done a much better job with making the costumes historically accurate. Or at least that's what artists Claire Hummel decided when she created her 'Historical Princesses' art collection. Hummel picked the characters that she felt were misguided in their dress, and made a few corrections to right the ship. The result is a killer collection of pieces that imagine the characters more in line with how they should have looked. You can see much more of Hummel's work on her Deviant Art page, and check out the project after the jump...

Maleficient dress based on early 1400s

Pocahontas dressed in 17th century Powhatan garb

Megara's dress based on Ancient Greek style

Rapunzel based on 1820s period pieces  

Tiana's dress based on robes de style of the 1920s

Mulan based on traditional Ming Dynasty garb

Sleeping Beauty in 1485 period garb

Cinderella in 1860s ball gown

Jasmin based on rare pre-Islamic Middle Eastern Fashion

Snow White in 16th century German garb

Ariel in 1890s evening gown

Belle dressed on 1770s French court fashion

Maid Marian... or better yet, what is left of her... lol

Twisted Disney by Jeffrey Thomas

I know a lot of artists like to take familiar characters and give them their own unique spin, but this dude Jefferey Thomas has taken the slow and steady approach at creating his versions of the Disney Princess's and boy are they unique. Jefferey has developed his Twisted Disney series by re-imagining all the lighthearted princess & female characters from the movies in a very dark way... and he nails them spot on. He also uses details from the particular film to inspire his versions of the characters. Like Cinderella being born out of a pumpkin or Ariel having her sidekick Flounder being a piranha. Very cool details. There are 19 total, and you can see them all by clicking here. Click after the jump to see my personal faves...

'Disney Princesses Spring Breakers' - Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo Bitches!!!!

I am super excited to get out and see Harmony Korrine's 'Spring Breakers', which features a bunch of young, nubile and sexy actresses who have done some work for The Disney Channel. But how can Disney capitalize on this concept for themselves? How about Disney Princesses Spring Breakers? Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White & Jasmine get it in... and instead of James Franco playing gangster rapper Alien, we get a blue skinned gangster genie!!! Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo bitches!!!! College Humor does it again, and I think this could be a better movie than the real Spring Breakers... check out the video after the jump!

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Even Disney Princesses Can Be Self Conscious...

You gotta love the Venezuelan's and there willy-nilly attitude toward plastic surgery. Seems like they are not above using beloved children's characters such as Ariel the Little Mermaid and Prince Eric to extol the wonders of plastic surgery. You also gotta love the tagline that the ads use: "We make fairytales come true". I have to be honest with you... I think they are on to something. It might be a bit hard for a chick to sell her family on the fact that her fiance is prince trapped in a frogs body. But if he goes under the knife and comes out looking like Drew Lachey? Yup, much easier to accept. Check the three pictures in the set from the Venezuelan ad company Zea BBDO after the jump...