by 007hertzrumble | Sep 18, 2013 | Custom DVD Covers, Misc.
The Spy Who Loved Me #Bond_age_ Collection DVD Cover
I wanted to make The Spy Who Loved Me #Bond_age_ Collection Custom DVD cover to be a little more stylized than the others. To add to this effect I created the tuxedo sleeve and pinstripe shirt using some simple shapes and angles and pieced together a couple found images of the hand and the fish. I layered a couple of different water images and added some textural layers exactly as I’d done to create the sketch-like version of Atlantis… topping it all off with a nice film grain for that always popular 70’s film stock glow. I never thought I’d analyze a paused frame of a movie for so long just to get the appearance of the fish right. It’s meticulous, I assure you.
by 007hertzrumble | Sep 16, 2013 | Misc.
#Bond_age_ is back on the wagon this week with arguably Party Moore’s best Bond flick. It’s The Spy Who Loved Me Live Tweet!
Don’t believe in the power of The Spy Who Loved Me? Let me count the ways.
#1. Opening ski chase with explosive ski poles.
#2. Jaws
#3. The Lotus goes underwater
#3a. The fish. I don’t need to explain.
#4. Party Moore’s killer tuxedo.
#5. Bond punches Jaws in the face. Twice.
#6. The dress. Again, no more explanation necessary.
#7. Steve Coogan/Alan Partridge reenactment of the opening.
#8. Atlantis.
#9. Caroline Munro. Oh my.
#10. Music by Marvin Hamlisch!? Cinematography by Jean Renoir’s nephew, Claude! (He also acted as DP on Barbarella, btw.)
Join us for The Spy Who Loved Me live tweet session Wednesday at 9pm EDT because there’s at least ten more where that came from. Follow #TSWLM.
The Spy Who Loved Me 007 – Trailer 1977 by mariotoledo
by 007hertzrumble | Sep 9, 2013 | Humor, Misc.
Remember, no #Bond_age_ this week, folks! #Bond_age_ returns next week with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME!
In the meantime, here’s a reminder why I’m out this week (besides almost lopping off a finger in a “hedge clipping incident”).
“Happy birthday, 007hertzrumble.” – Roger Moore’s alter ego, Party Moore.
by 007hertzrumble | Sep 6, 2013 | Custom DVD Covers, Misc.
The Man with the Golden Gun #Bond_age_ Collection DVD Cover
The Golden Gun is one of the most iconic props in the entire Bond series. It only seemed fitting then to break the gun down into it’s fascinating component parts (with extra 1970’s film grain!) for the custom DVD cover. Sadly, I could find no place to hide Sheriff Pepper with the back devoted to the infamous slide whistle. I’ll just have to put him on the cover of the insert book. I don’t mean to pat myself on the back (too much) for this cover but I f’ing love its simplicity. I’d thought about doing a grand homage to the Javelin Jump but I’m glad I scaled back that concept to highlight the gun. Sometimes the obvious answer really is the best.
by 007hertzrumble | Sep 4, 2013 | Misc.
I certainly can’t vouch for the Lulu song with its face-value metaphors (so not a metaphor at all?). Thus it’s a pleasure to replace that track with the originally commissioned Alice Cooper cut that got axed in favor of Lulu.
I don’t really think it works as a Bond song but it’s still better than Lulu and in my mind fits the gonzo nature of The Man with the Golden Gun better. The Man with the Golden Gun is an outlier in the Bond series. Bizarre. Off the wall. Third nippled. So why not Alice Cooper? Here’s The Man with the Golden Gun Remixed by @theactualkeith.
The Man With The Golden Gun – Alice Cooper Opening from But You’re Wrong Podcast on Vimeo.
by 007hertzrumble | Sep 3, 2013 | Misc.
Sometimes the reservation isn’t big enough for James Bond. (But that means it’s perfect for The Man with the Golden Live Tweet.)
Sometimes, James Bond just needs to go off the reservation. Sometimes James Bond needs to visit Thailand and enrage the locals by making bum deals with local rapscallions and then dumping them in the water for no particularly legitimate reason. Locking midgets in suitcases? No problem. It’s Thailand. Asskicking schoolgirls? It’s just Thailand. Bumping into Sheriff J.W. Pepper on vacation? Uh, it’s just Thailand? Three-nippled villains (played with relish by the great Christopher Lee) and an endless supply of tertiary nipple jokes? Now we’re talking. That’s The Man with the Golden Gun Live Tweet serving up a delicious slice of Bonkers Pie. Does The Man with the Golden Gun Live Tweet offer great #Bond_age_ or bottom-tier Bond? Decide for yourself Wednesday at 9pm EDT. Follow hashtag #MWGG.
