Recently I had the opportunity to talk with artist Scott Campbell about his book “The Great Showdowns”, and a little bit about movies and being an art director for Double Fine.
Mr. Campbell’s book ”The Great Showdowns” is a great book filled with drawings from what he believes to be the greatest showdown between two characters or two things in a particular movie. None of the drawings tell you what movie it is, so it creates a sort of group game/activity where you can work together with people to figure out what movie each drawing represents.
Check out the interview below.
Spartacus: Swords and Ashes mostly takes place after a slave witch kills her master. The funeral is planned, and Batiatus, an old friend of the deceased is one of the guests. While away for the funeral there are gladiator fights, a hefty dose of deception, and a lot of whores.
Morgan the Raider is a wanted man. The government suspects him of pulling a job that ended with him in possession of 40 million dollars of their money. The only thing is Morgan has no idea where that money is hidden, and the only guy that did know is missing most of his head.
Everybody wants to be more like Sherlock Holmes. Well, everyone wants to have great deduction skills, and be able to read their surroundings like a book. I don’t think people strive to be hard to deal with and to have a drug problem.
It’s just a matter of time before sentient robots rebel and attempt to “kill all humans”. We can all agree on that, right? By the way, watch the tech segment of the Never Not a Nerd Show every week to see our “Robocalypse Video of the Week”. Now that I got that shameless plug out of the way, let’s get to the review.
