Oscar-nominated actor, father, humanitarian, heartthrob: Brad Pitt certainly has his hands full. But that hasn’t stopped the charismatic celebrity from adding another title to his ever-growing resume: furniture designer. The latest issue of Architectural Digest has all the deets on Pitt’s new venture: a series of tables, chairs, and even bathtubs done in collaboration with [...]
We’ve covered inside Hollywood photos several times here at Parliament Of Owls, but we’ve not had the chance to see a true master at work. Bob Willoughby has a new retrospective at Proud Chelsea in London and it’s a homage to the man widely credited with inventing the photojournalistic motion picture still. The first “outside” [...]
In 2002 the movie ‘City Of God’ directed by Fernando Meirelles, highlighted the plight of thousands living in Brazil’s favelas. It tells the story of two friends growing up in the suburban slums of Rio de Janeiro. One becomes a photographer who earns his trade documenting the increasing violence as the descends further into the [...]
Here’s an awesome collection of exclusive behind the scenes photos from James Cameron’s classic 1991 film Terminator 2. Taken from Stan Winston’s special effects work shop that worked on the film, the photos show T James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger side by side shooting the Terminator’s cyborg hand. There’s also several images of some Schwarzenegger bust sculpts used [...]
With Indiana Jones arriving in cinemas in the US for another outing – whether this is linked to the sale of LucasArts we don’t know – Screen Rush has put together an amazing collection of rare, behind-the-scenes photos from Raiders of the Lost Ark. You can get a glimpse of Harrison Ford preparing himself for [...]
If you’ve got a spare couple of hours this week, we highly recommend you taking some time out to go and see this amazing retrospective on the king of cool, Steve McQueen. The show features the work of photography John Dominis, who spent three weeks with McQueen to capture these iconic shots. Click the pic [...]
A year before the Wright brothers launched the first airplane flight in 1903, Georges Méliès, a French filmmaker with already 400 films to his credit, directed a film that visualized a much bigger human ambition – landing a spacecraft on the moon. Loosely based on works by Jules Vernes (From the Earth to the Moon) [...]
A couple of weeks ago, engineer Vijay Pandurangan was having I was having brunch with a friend and he mentioned how he felt that most movie posters these days were very blue and dark. His friend didn’t fully believe him and challenged him to prove it. So, as any engineer would do, he wrote some [...]
So you think you know your film iconography? Step right up, step right up. One of our favourite digital design guys, Ji Lee, has created a quiz site where you have to guess the film the object derived from. Click the pic to have a go.
Esquire got some time with one of our favourite actors, and probably everyone who reads this blog, Bill Murray. But unlike most interviews with star focusing on this star quality, Esquire’s man gets behind Murray’s past, his reticence to fame and more. Click the pic to read it [...]
