Star Wars Modern

Rev. Robert L Powers (far right) singing with his fellow clergy in Selma Alabama, showing their  support for Martin Luther King  (1965) ...

Out in the Cold: Robert Smithson, Proposal for a Monument at Antarctica  (1966) Mark Quinn, Self (1999)    This past Monday, Nate Thay...

Luke Skywalker filtered by  8-bit Avatar Maker "What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rh...

Old Story In 1977 the unprecedented success of  Star Wars  inspired the scholar Joseph Campbell to claim George Lucas was the best s...

Opening, Star Wars (1977); Ken Ohyama, Interchange (2007)   What could be more shocking that seeing  Luke Skywalker don Vader...

Aquitania   (1910);  Millennium Falcon (1977) In 1977, George Lucas changed the future in a single movie when he introduced audien...

Wish upon a Death Star I am a sculptor. I consider what I do Fine Art, and believe it is a serious undertaking worthy of dedicating one...

Darth Vader's Funeral Pyre; Vader's post-pyre helmet A friend asked me the other day what I thought Episode VII should be abou...

Death Star, Return of the Jedi (1983); Ben Fry,  All Streets (2010) I know what the Coruscant of  Star Wars: Episode VI  should lo...

If you have not seen Ridley Scott's Prometheus , what follows will not make any sense. I decided to gently rewrite the film; to bolst...

John Powers, Big Gini (2012) I'll be giving a talk tomorrow night at the  Schusev State Museum of Architecture at 6PM tomorrow eve...

Below are the slides for the third part of a three-part, 8-bit, art history lecture on Star Wars and American Cold War Modernism I gave...