No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford
Richard Metzger is the current Boing Boing guest blogger.
Artist Brandon Bird's website has many pleasures, including the lovely piece above these words, "No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford." I really wish this painting were mine. I'm so jealous of whoever owns it. A pity that all the prints are sold out, too. Maybe if enough people email him and want them, he'll do a new edition! Are you listening Brandon?
Do not miss the "Letters to Walken" section of his site documenting an art project of Bird's that saw school children writing their annual Christmas letters to ... Christopher Walken.
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Great post. Letters to CW the best. Especially "Forth Grade."
Painting is awfully funny. In the spirit of Mark Tansley's 1981 "Action Painting"
http://www.uncommon-sense.net/interests/art/tansey/action_painting.gif
I bought a framed print of Killing Machine from his site a few years back. It is one of my most prized possessions. I also have A Bad Day on the High Seas as my desktop wallpaper, it's description is as beautiful as the painting itself.
The folks over Engadget & Gizmodo love him, understandably. Ever since one of those sites put me onto Bird, I've wanted to buy a print.
Heck, being totally poor I've wanted to find a decent rez version to print. But bah, neither.
At least there is an excuse to go to his site, again. The letters to Walken are a gaurenteed mood lifter.
Aw, I feel kind of bad for him ... I'll play Sega with you, Harrison!
Brandon's Law & Order coloring book is the best!
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/01/23/law-and-order-colori.html
That's because the Master System sucked ass.
@6 You take that back. Wonder Boy in Monster Land god dammit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMb9_Uhe9uY
@ #4: Me too! Poor Harrison, he looks so dejected.
@ #6: Sega lost the marketing war. Technically the SMS was a superior system.
@ #7: Don't forget the original Phantasy Star!
:) I've got one of the prints framed above my desk, love it.
I feel a little to close to being recessioned to comfortably spend 70 bucks on a print (but how I pine for "The Death of Jennifer Sisko and the Destruction of the USS Saratoga at Wolf 359").
but I did buy three of the wonderfully priced posters for a cool 30 bucks. I don't know where I'll find frames in such odd sizes, though.
Those are NES controllers. Maximum failure points awarded.
@#11 Right, so the title should be "No One Wants to Play Sega With or Without Harrison Ford".
I like this from his FAQ:
I don't like those kids. don't like them at all.
@ #11: There is no failure. They are playing Nintendo, and Harrison Ford wants to play Sega. The title is completely accurate. It is also completely awesome.
As long as he's got a copy of Star Control or Toe Jam and Earl it's on!
Maybe if he had the 3-D glasses they would play. Zaxxon in 3-D was pretty cool. And I second Wonder Boy in Monster Land.
It's not the same as a print but you can still get an unframed poster version.
He does still have unsigned posters of the Harrison Ford painting for $7.
Those Walken letters would be funny if they seemed even remotely real.
Ha! I ordered my print of this only 6 or 7 weeks ago, I put it on the wall next to my computer.
Words can not describe the sorrow I first felt when I saw Harrison standing all by himself with his sad face and even sadder socks.
@20
I also call bullshit on those Walken letters. Too fake to be funny.
A few years ago I bought a poster of "The Anguish" which is a picture of Michael Landon from Little House on the Prairie holding a dead squid and looking mournful.
To this day it is on the wall above my bed.
No one wants to play Sega with Harrison Ford because he's been kicking everyone's ass at Magic apparently:
http://www.brandonbird.com/ford_magic.html
Oh my... I have now spent the last hour browsing and laughing at that website and all the art.
I might have to purchase a print of "Bam Thwop", in fact. Its a thoughtful piece. Why are they there? What activity or drinking preceded this encounter? Homoerotic undertones, imagined or real? Is this Peter Parker's country home?
http://www.brandonbird.com/jjj.html
And I thank you for sharing... Just when I feeling like BB had gotten irretrievably farther and farther away from the "Directory of Wonderful Things" tag.
I literally laughed out of my chair at the Henry Rollins sack race sketch... I might just have to order a print of it.
@ #20 and #22: Those letters are exactly what they say they are -- they're letters written to Walken by Cornell University undergrads living in the arts dorm there, Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts. I know because I was one of them. No bullshit whatsoever.
@ #4 - Yes, I actually feel really bad for the poor guy. Like, heart-sinkingly bad. I don't think I could have something like this on my wall - every time I looked at it I would want to cry.
@27: College undergrads != school children.
Can someone 'splain to me how the letters were supposed to be from 4th graders but not really? Is that what makes them art? They are supposed to be from 4th graders but they aren't...get it ? (NO) So misplaced physicist did you happen to be the artist, then, that did that soooooooo funny card, "I'm Chinese"?
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We gave out the T-Mas cards for Christmas this year and they were a huge hit. Order them early as they get harder to get/more expensive around the holidays!
@27: Truth. We even sent them.
@30: That would be this fine lady: http://mingdoyle.com/
Ha! I'm inspired to take up my painting again!
This was my last piece:
http://pandamation.deviantart.com/art/Rubiks-Robot-97690209