Month: December 2016 (Page 2 of 9)

The PopCult vacation photo essays continue with another dip back into our bag of images from your PopCulteer’s Thanksgiving trip to Georgia.

In this installment, we’re going to check out more of the sights of various shooting locations for the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead. To the right of this text you see the sign on the front of the door to the recreation of Morgan’s apartment from the acclaimed “Clear” episode.

Unfortunately we are still dealing with technical issues that limit the number of photos per essay and also keep us from captioning each one of them. We’ll try to sneak in a few comments here and there, though. In this batch of photos you’ll see shots from Grantville, Harelson and Senoia.

Keep checking back for more pics as we race to get the heck out of 2016.

The wall, still scrawled with Morgan’s grafitti, part of a semit-destroyed building, a block away from Morgan’s apartment. Let’s take a look at some shots from the inside and outside of this structure. It’s a really wild place, with a bizarre vibe.

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The PopCult Bookshelf

We wanted to alert our loyal PopCult readers to a Kickstarter project that’s almost at its end. THE SECRET SOCIETY is a terrific comic book, produced by some of the folks associated with the Charlton Neo movement, and you have less than two days to support it and get in on the fun.

THE SECRET SOCIETY is a superhero-secret agent team of ‘metaphysical crimefighters’ developed by creator and writer Bradley Mason Hamlin with artist Mort Todd. The Society is made up of EDDIE CROSSBONES, a living skeleton, LUCY HELL, a devilgirl, PIG-MAN, a porcine powerhouse, HOURGLASS, a time-traveler who can’t control her powers, EL SECRETO, a man known as “the secret,” AGENT ADAMS, a fellow who gets his super powers from drinking spirits and many more!

The characters already have a cult following on the web through the Mystery Island websites and pulp novelettes of their adventures. This publication marks their first full comic book appearance and is now available with 8 variant covers showcasing individual members of the Secret Society. To see a TOP SECRET dossier on all the members of the Society, along with wild art, go to the MYSTERY ISLAND HQ.

Many consider the Secret Society worthy of films, TV and merchandise. The denizens of Mystery Island agree and this Kickstarter will help spread the word on this great super-group!

This comic features 40 pages with 3 complete stories presenting the origins of the Society’s most intense heroes… EDDIE CROSSBONES, the Living Skeleton; LUCY HELL, Devilgirl, EL SECRETO, the Man of Mystery and BLOODY MARIA, the Barrio Bombshell.

You can support THE SECRET SOCIETY and get a copy of SECRET SOCIETY ORIGINS #1 (along with other perks) by visiting the Kickstarter page in the widget below…

While you put away your gifts and take the decorations down, you can tune in to The AIR one last time (well, maybe the next-to-last-time) for the The AIR Christmas Hangover.

You can tune in to The AIR all day today, until 10 PM, for the Christmas Hangover, as we continue to beat the dead horse of the holiday season by stretching out our special holiday programming for nearly one more whole day. This is your last chance to catch “Make A Daft Noise For Christmas” until next year. Or maybe, just maybe, one last time this weekend, by popular request.

At 1o PM you can go completly nuts as The AIR switches over for a fourteen-hour mini-marathon of Radio Free Charleston, cramming your ears full of terrific local music as we cleanse the palette to return to our regular programming. Listen at the website or on this neat little stocking stuffer of an embedded radio player…

The PopCult Toybox

On our recent trip to Chicago we couldn’t resist making a return trip to Rotofugi, which we first visited earlier this year. Rotofugi is a combo store/art gallery specializing in designer toys.  It is a bit of a Mecca for vinyl art toys that’s was chosen as the best store in the country by the readers of Clutter Magazine.We sorta had to bring you another mini-photo essay.

They carry stuff like Funko Pop figures, but there’s way more of it in a vast variety of different styles, sizes, and prices.We saw everything from small blind-box figures that were only a few bucks to medium-sized figures in the ten to twenty-dollar range to gigantic designer statues selling for several hundred dollars.  Of course, there were all sorts of cool things at all points in between, including Funko Pop, Vinyl Idolz, Kid Robot blind-boxes, weird plush, wooden toys, coloring books, Dunnies, Pusheen, and way more than I could possibly list here. It was overwhelming for collectors like us.

While it was amazing to visit Rotofugi in person, if you can’t make it to Chicago, head over to their website and check out their Facebook page for details on how to get in on discounts and other special deals. This is, of course, some of the coolest stuff on the planet and it was an amazing treat to get to go stand at Ground Zero for epic cool-assed weirdness and the world’s niftiest trinketry.

As with our first Rotofugi photo essay these photos were all taken with a Kodak Zi8 video camera, set to still picture mode, which had a fixed focus and less flexibility. I promise that on our next trip I’ll take the real camera to their store. And since we are still dealing with internet gremlins here at PopCult (if you’re looking for the search window and it’s not where it’s suposed to be, try scrolling all the way down to where the archives are at the bottom of the page), we’re just dishing out cool images with no captions. If you see something you like, visit their website. If you do make it to Chicago, you can visit Rotofugi at 2780 North Lincoln Avenue.

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Your PopCulteer and his wife have made several trips to Senoia, Georgia now, and we’ve always seen this cool antique car parked by a tree on Main Street. However, the tree usually obscured our view. On our latest trip over Thanksgiving I finally got a decent shot of this classy set of wheels, and we kick off this last week of 2016 with a digital watercolor based on that photo.

Click to enlarge. Look for more photo essays of our recent travels all week long here in PopCult.

Also, you can tune in to The AIR all day today for the Christmas Hangover, as we beat the dead horse of the holiday season by stretching out our special holiday programming for one more day. This is your last chance to catch “Walking ‘Round In Women’s Underwear” until next year. Listen at the website or on this neat little stocking stuffer of an embedded radio player…

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and whatever good tidings fill your bill from PopCult and the Larch-Panucci household.

2016 has been one of the most challenging years of recent memory, but I hope that everybody can find some peace and well-being on this special day.

For the eleventh year running, we bring you Melanie Larch singing “Ave Maria” from the very first Christmas episode of Radio Free Charleston.

Let’s follow that up with the 2014 Christmas treat that saw Melanie backed by Mark Scarpelli…

And we’ll finish with Mel’s 2009 Christmas song with Diablo Blues Band…

Wishing you and yours the best-

Rudy Panucci and Melanie Larch

Tonight, as our last PopCult Christmas Treat before the big day, we bring you two more clips from the Contemporary Youth Arts Company rock opera, MARY.

Come back tomorrow for our annual Christmas Day PopCult video treat.