Geek Gear: The Beatles – Stars Wars Mash-Up ‘StarWalk’
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011 at 8:29 am
The $9 t-shirt deal of the day over at Teefury today is a mash-up of Star Wars and The Beatles called “StarWalk,” by artist low718.
The sale at Teefury began at midnight EST (Saturday, February 5, 2011) and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it’s gone from the site for good.
The design takes popular Star Wars characters and puts them in the famous Beatles Abbey Road crosswalk.
The limited-edition t-shirt is available in Men’s and Women’s sizes in Red.
The artist doesn’t have a website listed, but you can view his profile page at Teefury.
I like the idea a lot more than the execution. I’m not really feeling the red/white color scheme, and it’s a little too hard to distinguish the silhouettes. I want it to be a little less abstract… Neither Abbey Road nor Star Wars was abstract, so flattening them into a two-color abstract adds a third element that sort of overtakes the two elements that the artist is mashing up. It makes it look lazy to me.
I’d probably like it more if it had another color or two and maybe more image clues like the lines of the crosswalk underneath their feet, or the perspective lines of the street in the background. Something to make it a little more obviously Abbey Road and something else to make the Star Wars characters pop more clearly. I think less abstract would make it cooler… yeah, just a little more concrete.
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I like the idea a lot more than the execution. I’m not really feeling the red/white color scheme, and it’s a little too hard to distinguish the silhouettes. I want it to be a little less abstract… Neither Abbey Road nor Star Wars was abstract, so flattening them into a two-color abstract adds a third element that sort of overtakes the two elements that the artist is mashing up. It makes it look lazy to me.
I’d probably like it more if it had another color or two and maybe more image clues like the lines of the crosswalk underneath their feet, or the perspective lines of the street in the background. Something to make it a little more obviously Abbey Road and something else to make the Star Wars characters pop more clearly. I think less abstract would make it cooler… yeah, just a little more concrete.
Comment by Lyle — February 5, 2011 @ 10:53 am