A digital sketch and a real sketch, a digital painting, a poster and a fake Magic card. From all these techniques comes five pieces of art that are all worthy a place in an art gallery, an art gallery featuring a Pop Culture exhibit to be exact.
Released in October of 1995, Homelands, Magic: The Gathering’s seventh expansion, was a small expansion set that numbered 140 total cards. The set added to the Sengir, Serra and Clockwork families, in addition to adding new prefixes such as Anaba, Aysen and An-havva. The set also added some new viable tribes, Faires, Minotaurs and Falcons…
One hundred two years ago on April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic was on it’s maiden voyage. As we all know, it ended in tragedy at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. It was one of the greatest transportation calamities of the 20th Century only rivaled by the Hindenburg disaster 25 years later.
In the 102 years since it’s sinking, the world has had a growing fascination with this ship, culminating in many documentaries and movies, perhaps most famously with James Cameron’s blockbuster “Titanic” in 1997, but that’s hardly the most accurate depiction.
A few things up front. I am current with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I watched the episode before Captain America opened and I watched the one that essentially spoiled the movie a few days later. I had a spoiler free post about Captain America: The Winter Soldier all ready to go, when this week’s episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. spoiled it, so I threw it out and wrote this.
Captain America’s trailers months ago led all of us to believe that he was acting less like Captain America the superhero and more like Captain America, an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.