{"id":14,"date":"2006-04-05T12:29:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/clerks-2-full-of-culture\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T19:29:16","slug":"clerks-2-full-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Clerks 2 full of culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Kevin Smith releases more and more sneak-peak material for Clerks 2<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

BC artist Chris Woods has done a series of paintings<\/a> 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<\/a>, mixes the fantastic with the super-sized mundane – it’s this series that got used by the Clerks production designers.<\/p>\n

Bonus fun fact – Woods did the cover to 2003’s Everything to Everyone, by the Barenaked Ladies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}