Yuko Shimizu is Japanese illustrator based in New York whose work personally continues to inspire me every time it pops up on my Instagram feed. You may have seen her work on Pepsi cans, GAP tees, Nike ads, as well as on book covers and magazine pages. In this video, Yuko takes us inside the process behind creating her artwork for Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975, which also features new illustrations by Becky Cloonan, Robert Goodin, Benjamin Marra, Takashi Okazaki, Angela Rizza, and a lot more.
You know that feeling when you stumble upon an old movie you haven't seen in years? It's like finding a dusty photo album and flipping through the pages, only instead of bad hairstyles, you're greeted with hideous special effects and awful dialogue. Also, the dramatic tension I remembered as nail-biting was now… well, a little slow-paced. But the truly entertaining part of rewatching a movie is that you notice things you never did before. For example, in Midnight Cowboy , I didn't know that the guy who gave Joe Buck (Jon Voight) a blow job was played by Bob Balaban, who later became known for his role as Russell Dalrymple, the fictional president of NBC in Seinfeld . Released in 1969, Midnight Cowboy is a raw, sometimes uncomfortable, often heartbreaking, but ultimately deeply human. And seriously, the chemistry between Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Buck is pure gold. Rewatching a movie is like visiting an old friend. You know their idiosyncrasies, their stories, bu...
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