Believe it or not, this is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, distilled into a single image.

Created in 2004, this piece is part of a larger collection called, “Cinema Redux.” Artist/innovator Brendan Dawes used a Java program to sample a movie every second, generating 8×6 pixel images, each row representing one minute of film.

As Brendan explains the process, “The end result is a kind of unique fingerprint for that film. A sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process. Compare Serpico to The Conversation. You can see there’s far more edits in Lumet’s classic compared to the more gentle slower pace of Coppola’s Conversation. This is also down to the editing style of Walter Murch who prefers to only make cuts when absolutely necessary. Have a look through the eight movies and make your own mind up.”

To explore his world, go here.

For all you Banksy fans out there, allow me to introduce you to Mark Jenkins.

Substituting mannequins for spray paint, his street installations are at once hilarious, creative, disarming, inventive, and spooky.  I love him.

You can see more at his website…or follow the jump for two more samples…

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And now we must officially introduce to you a long time listener, dedicated fan, and artist-in-residence…Tim Tsuruda.

He’s very talented at what he does on his “free time” and we can’t thank him enough for all his creative contributions. Back on my birthday, Tim created the cover art for the first “Scene Unseen Podcast Comic Book,” how cool!

Tim is also responsible for the SUS Warner Bros. Parody Logo, Krang in a Thong, Jabba the Hut in a Thong, and the Benjamin Button Seven art.  Tim T., you are a scholar and a gentleman, and we can’t thank you enough for all your hard work and creative energy!

For more fan art by Tim Tsuruda and others, go to the “Fan Scenes” in the About section on our site and check out the Unseen talent waiting to be discovered.

And if you’re an artist in your own right and “Scene Unseen” inspires your own fan art…please send it in!  Click on the image for a LARGER version of the comic.

The late Bob Peak was responsible for revolutionizing the world of film advertising with his beautiful artistic collages which helped promote some of Hollywood’s biggest films. He designed over hundreds of posters for the motion picture industry including Apocalypse Now, My Fair Lady, Star Trek, and Excalibur to name a few, and also designed many covers for TV Guide. I would advise anyone in the SoCal area to check out the Bob Peak: Father of The Modern Hollywood Poster Exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California (June 6 – June 25).

If you’ve been listening to us for the past six months, you know we’ve played our fair share of the Benjamin Button ”seven” clip.  It always makes us laugh, and thankfully, you listeners seem to agree.

Super fan and “artist-in-residence” Tim Tsuruda sent us this original piece in tribute to our incessant use of said clip.  Click on the ol’ geezer to see a larger version.

For many years, Edward Hopper has been my favorite artist. I’m ashamed to tell you how many hours I’ve spent staring at the pensive, ambiguous faces that inhabit his paintings. Suffice to say, it’s been a long time.

New York Movie is one of my favorites. Hopper painted the lonely usherette in 1939, after drafting over 50 sketches.  One of the enduring mysteries for me is what’s on that silver screen to the left.  Mountains and clouds?  A shoulder and a head of hair?  I really can’t tell, and I’ve never met anyone who knows for sure.

Rumor has it director Sam Mendes used the painting as inspiration for the moody lighting in his underrated flick, Road to Perdition.  I can certainly see why, the scene is filled with drama and makes me long for the days of actual movie palaces rather than dollar theaters with sticky floors.