Join hosts Kody Frederick and Jason DeBord this week as they travel to 2022 San Diego Comic Con and converse with the people that attend, present, and everything else in between. Today’s guests are LosCon Organizers Michelle Pincus and Kristen Gorlitz. [Read more…]
That Pop Culture Show… SDCC – Special Edition – Gino Sabatino & His Friend
Join hosts Kody Frederick and Jason DeBord this week as they travel to 2022 San Diego Comic Con and converse with the people that attend, present, and everything else in between. Today’s guests is Gino Sabatino – Star Wars Prop and Costume Preservationist. [Read more…]
That Pop Culture Show… SDCC – Special Edition – Dexter Odani, Robotech Documentary Producer
Join hosts Kody Frederick and Jason DeBord this week as they travel to 2022 San Diego Comic Con and converse with the people that attend, present, and everything else in between. Today’s guest is Dexter Odani, the director/producer of Robotech: The Inside Story. [Read more…]
That Pop Culture Show… SDCC – Special Edition – Chris Trevas
Join hosts Kody Frederick and Jason DeBord this week as they travel to 2022 San Diego Comic Con and converse with the people that attend, present, and everything else in between. Today’s guests is Artist/Illustrator Chris Trevas. [Read more…]
Jason DeBord Named Director Of Marketing, New Media, And Contemporary Pop Culture For Julien’s Auctions
Greetings followers of the Rock Subculture Journal! So I have big news today (with the official press release copied further below)… I am as of today working full-time for Julien’s Auctions as their Director of Marketing, New Media, and Contemporary Pop Culture. I am very excited about my new career with Julien’s and my future plans with the company. For those that do not follow the auction house and collecting art market world, Julien’s Auctions is the premiere auction house in the world featuring Rock ‘N’ Roll memorabilia, such as stage and studio used guitars and other instruments, wardrobe, and other memorabilia. They also specialize in Hollywood, Street Art/Contemporary Art, and Sports memorabilia. I’ve been working with Julien’s for many years as a consultant, and I’m thrilled to be taking on a much bigger role with the company. [Read more…]
Watch Original Prop Blog’s Exclusive Interviews with Colin Cantwell on Star Wars Prototypes/Concept Art in 1974/75, The Apollo XI Moon Landing, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, WarGames, and More
As readers may or may not know, I own and operate the sister site to the Rock Subculture Journal, the Original Prop Blog. Founded and launched in 2007, my Original Prop Blog site is all about film and television and important pop culture artifacts – finding them, authenticating them, preserving them, and everything that goes on in that specialized art market. Today I have published a world exclusive feature that shares my video interviews with Colin Cantwell, who worked on many important movies and TV shows like Star Wars: A New Hope, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, WarGames, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He is well known as the creator of the key ships and vehicles from Star Wars (like the X-Wing Fighter, the Y-Wing Fighter, the Tie Fighter, the Star Destroyer, the Death Star, the Landspeeder, the Sandcrawler, the Millennium Falcon, and the T-16 Skyhopper) by way of the prototype models he created for George Lucas back in 1974/1975. But no one has really talked with him about his work since, so he has until now remained somewhat of a mystery to fans. As it ends up, prior to doing those prototype models, he created concept art that has been lost to the “public record” for the film series until now… [Read more…]