Comments on: Friday the 13th

By: The Night He Came Home « Posterwire.com » the movie poster weblog

The Night He Came Home « Posterwire.com » the movie poster weblog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:51:28 +0000

[...] Meyers is also another example of the “unseen killer” design problem we mentioned previously. Gleason went on to design the “skull pumpkin” image for the Halloween II one-sheet, [...]

By: JD Moores

JD Moores — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:44:03 +0000

My shop url was cut-off: It’s Woodlane Express – http://www.cafepress.com/wlexpress

By: JD Moores

JD Moores — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:40:46 +0000

You don’t know how hard it was for me to find a great site like this that not only featured but gave background and artist information on some of these types of movie posters, ie, the handmade ones. I’m a big fan of what some might call the “old fashioned” tradition of hand-drawn / painted key art for movie posters. There are still a few done today, notably those for the STAR WARS prequels (past tense), the first HARRY POTTER movie and special edition DVD releases such as the one for THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, all by Drew Struzan, but unfortunately it is by and large not just an “old fashioned” art but a “lost art.”

My main interests are writing and filmmaking, but I’ve sketched and painted since I was trained in grade school and have focused on illustration in self-training over the last few years. I’d love to do this kind of work. I did keyart for the poster coinciding with my own self-written, produced and directed short film THE PILOTS’ LOUNGE in 2004 and for a documentary in 2006, but without official art school credit (again, training is from childhood and also self-administered) or representation I’m not sure how to advance further.

If any of you are interested in my stuff, I’d love to have feedback. Go to http://www.jdmoores.com/gallery.html, click on the “Gallery” link, sign the guestbook and /or e-mail feedback. I also have a new line of greeting cards I designed and am self-distributing at my online shop – http://www.cafepress.com.

By: Blake Washer

Blake Washer — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:34:01 +0000

The setting isn’t misconfigured… it’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do :)

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:09:04 +0000

Unfortunately, it is bit misconfigured. Ideally, hotlinking is supposed to only prevent direct “img src=” html linking of images from outside servers.

The link mentioned above:

http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/gfx/friday2painting.jpg

is redirected from ALL url requests, not just outside img src requests. In other words, you should be able to click on the above link and be taken to the image, not to the redirected “no hotlinking” image.

Perhaps the htaccess file is configued using a different hotlinking method than the on described here:

http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

The reason this isn’t such a good thing is it also redirects legitimate requests like search engine spiders, etc.

By: Harry Angelikas

Harry Angelikas — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:29:17 +0000

Just to be clear, the designer is Spiros Angelikas, my father. Mr. Ebel did a wonderful job on the “Phobia” poster as well. You can see the similarities in his work.

Harry Angelikas

By: Carlo

Carlo — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:01:41 +0000

Harry, Both you and Mr Ebel did a wonderful job. I have always liked the original Friday’s cover art. The design in your url looks like the artwork for part 2. Pretty cool.

http://www.artrosa.loland.nl

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:46:53 +0000

Harry, that site has a (misconfigured) “hotlinking” setting. Users will have to copy/paste that link in their browser to see that image.

By: Harry Angelikas

Harry Angelikas — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:28:25 +0000

Click on the URL to see the image of the other version.

http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/gfx/friday2painting.jpg

By: Spiros

Spiros — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:11:39 +0000

The illustrators name was Alex Ebel. I think I am spelling his last name wrong. I sent you the images that I have. Enjoy!