Florian Bertmer is an incredible artist and I’ve been a fan of his for several years. I was exposed to his work through his various album covers and t-shirt designs.

Today OMG Posters hipped us to his amazing new print done for the Alamno Drafthouse Star Wars print series.

Florian Bertmer’s “Han Shot First” is a 24? x 34? eight color screenprint, has an edition of 400, and will cost $50. It goes up Thursday, December 2nd at a random time.

In a blog post shows various sketches and stages that the piece went through.

http://mondotees.com/ would be the site to keep an eye if you’re looking to snap this up on Thursday.

And here’s the original drawing.

There’s few things better than the cinematic joys of watching Nicolas Cage go batshit crazy on the big screen. He’s made a carreer of it and video editor Harry Hanrahan has put togther an amazing 4-minute video of some his finer moments. Some choice cuts are pulled from Deadfall, Vampire’s Kiss, Leaving Las Vegas and The Wicker Man.

Don’t watch this at work or anywhere really where you care what people will think.

“Not the Bees!”

Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit

For a full list of the videos featured in this complilation you can head over to Pajiba’s page as he has them documented right alongside the running time.

It’s been an early Christmas on the internet lately as just last week we got 7 minutes worth of every Arnie scream from every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever.

In honor of Conan O’Brien’s new show launch tonight I felt this was a timely look into the ghost of televsion past.

Sometimes you recall something from the days of television past that was so awesome that you think, “that couldn’t have really happened.”

Back in the day Hunter S Thompson made a few appearances on the Conan O’brien show. During one of these episodes Conan met him at a shooting rage where they spent the day drinking and firing off high-powered assualt weapons. Targets included cardboard stand-up displays and stuffed animals.

Here’s a clip that shows a few scenes from said episode as well as him telling some awesome tales. Letterman never did anything this rad.

We’re big fans of film-maker Freddie Wong around here. Here’s a guy that utilizes his talent, built his own fan base and delivers cool stuff to us every week. He has two outrageously successful YouTube pages and his Facebook fan page updates are fun as hell. His work ethic is awe-inspiring.

Instead of waiting for something to happen he’s gone out and built a cult following. He and his crew are amazing technical VFX wizards and great story tellers. On his main YouTube page he delivers a mini-movie every week or so.

The shorts are usually darkly comic, filled to the brim with violence and often ending with a cute twist. The new generation of movie makers has embraced digital technology and are garnering huge followings by putting it out there directly to the audience.

Halloween Massacre

In Halloween Massacre Freddie pays homage to Being John Malkovich via Scarface.

Behind the Scenes – Halloween Massacre

Since the 1990’s we’ve grown accustomed to special features on DVD’s that demystify the film-making process. Freddie embraces this and has built up a second YouTube channel that goes behind the scenes on all of his short films. He details how they accomplish all of the VFX and sometimes outlines the tools used.

I always look forward to what he’s cooked up each week.