Interview: Ernie Cline
Apr 05Originally published March 11, 2003
In Internet terms, if you can create one thing that people email around to one another, you’re a star. If you can follow up with a sophomore effort, that gets even more attention, you’re a superstar. Ernie Cline is now working on his third meme, as people slowly begin to start describing something extra cool as being “Airwolf,” making him, well, at least a superstar. What comes after “superstar” hasn’t been worked out yet.
Clerks 2 full of culture
Apr 05
As Kevin Smith releases more and more sneak-peak material for Clerks 2, I’ve been getting more and more antsy – I want to see it now! But in the meantime, I can share fun facts with you, which you can then use to show your snobby movie friends that you’re all cultured ‘n shit.
In a number of places in various trailers and on-set stills, you can catch glimpses of posters on the walls of the film’s main set, Mooby burger, each one a masterpiece fusion of fast-food and religious iconography. Here’s the thing, they’re real art. Actually, they’re photoshopped copies of real art. But still, at heart, it’s real art.
BC artist Chris Woods has done a series of paintings and installations that take a look at consumer culture – anyone who’s ever read an issue of Ad-Busters is likely familiar with his work. One of his earliest series, McTopia, mixes the fantastic with the super-sized mundane – it’s this series that got used by the Clerks production designers.
Bonus fun fact – Woods did the cover to 2003’s Everything to Everyone, by the Barenaked Ladies.
