While Warhol is dead, the pop art movement continues on. The Moose discovered this site for LA Pop Art the other day while surfing the net. What this site does is sell pop art that mixes iconic images with the language associated with those images. For example, take a look.

This poster of Rocky recreates the unforgettable image of Rocky at the top of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum using nothing but the dialogue from the movie itself.

The technique used to create this cool poster is known as micrography. A brief history of the technique of micrography can be found on the LA Pop Art website but here is a brief excerpt

Micrography, the scribal practice of employing minuscule script to create abstract shapes or figurative designs, is an art form that has been used by Jews for over a millennium. This intricate decorative technique was first practiced in Egypt and the Land of Israel in the tenth century. Micrography developed within the Islamic cultural milieu in which the written word was frequently transformed into elaborate decorative patterns. This abstract ornamentation, emphasized in Islamic art, strongly influenced the artistic creations of the Jews living in many Near Eastern countries.

Pretty cool stuff. These posters would make great gifts for all your writer or movie quoting friends

The World Is Yours. – Scarface

An Offer You Can’t Refuse. – The Godfather

Horton Hears A Who!

Trailer

The story revolves around Horton the Elephant who finds a speck on it that is actually the home of the Who’s. Horton hears the Who’s screaming and realizes that there are tiny people living on this speck. He takes it upon himself to be the protector of these tiny people.

In the movie, the character of Sour Kangaroo hops around with her pouch schooled son trying to get in everybody’s business. She sees Horton and thinks he is acting crazy talking about a world of tiny people living on a speck and tries to convince Horton to cast away the speck and its tiny inhabitants. When Horton refuses, Sour Kangaroo refuses to mind her own business and tries her best to get rid of Horton’s speck by recruiting a terrorist Eastern-bloc vulture and rallying the animals of the jungle against Horton.

Seeing the movie right before the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, I was fascinated by the many parallels between Sour Kangaroo and Hilary Clinton. Sour Kangaroo, as voiced by Carol Burnett, has a shrill voice and speaks with the same condescending tone and attitude as the former First Lady and current Presidential hopeful Hilary Rodham Clinton.

And when Sour Kangaroo rallies the jungle against Horton, she lets out a wicked laugh that’s strikingly similar to Hilary’s cackle as she’s displayed on the campaign trail.

If the spot-on voice impersonation isn’t enough, the Sour Kangaroo actually has the line “I know what’s good for you better than you”. If that doesn’t sound like Ms. Clinton and her socialized health care for all, than I don’t know what does. And near the end of the movie when the people (the jungle denizens) come to realize that Horton the (Republican?) Elephant is right, the Sour Kangaroo leaves on her own in tears before Horton and the rest of the jungle, welcomes her back. To me, this is eerily reminiscent of Clinton’s tears-for-votes ploy in New Hampshire which helped save her flagging campaign

If the Sour Kangaroo really is a send up of Ms. Clinton, then her disbelief in the little people could easily be seen as her stance on abortion as well. The original Dr. Seuss story Horton Hears A Who! is no stranger to political controversy as pro-life groups have adopted Horton the Elephant’s mantra of “a person’s a person, no matter how small” in support of their views against abortion but there’s never been anyone that Sour Kangaroo’s been symbolic of before until now.

And what of Sour Kangaroo’s Machiavellian negotiations with the Eastern-bloc vultures? Is this a foretelling of her foreign policy or perhaps just reading too much into things? After all, computer animated movies take a long time to make and this movie was made long before the whole Presidential primary process. Still, you cannot deny the many similarities between Sour Kangaroo and one Ms. Hilary Rodham Clinton.