The Bad Robot Art Experience presented by Gallery 1988

Gallery 1988, in conjunction with J.J. Abrams and his production company Bad Robot, is hosting an epic new group art show entitled the Bad Robot Art Experience! Each piece by a super talented roster of artists is inspired by the many works of the Bad Robot production company (and Abrams himself).  There will be paintings, prints, sculptures and plush figures which pay tribute to such TV shows and movies as Alias, Fringe, LOST, Person of Interest, Cloverfield, Super 8, Star Trek and so much more!

Personally The Blot is in love with this LOST screen print by Joshua Budich. He absolutely killed it with this amazing image! I’m lucky enough to own Budich’s first LOST print, but this one is definitely a must get as well. So far Gallery 1988 has only unveiled four pieces from their upcoming show, Budich’s LOST print, a Fringe inspired piece by Nan Lawson, a Cloverfield inspired piece by Eelus, and a Star Trek inspired piece by Bruce White.

Gallery 1988 presents The Bad Robot Art Experience opens next Friday, April 26th, with a reception from 7-10 PM. Beyond great art, it will also be benefitting a great charity called The Mission Continues, helping veterans become community leaders.

Fringe Series Finale Television Poster

I don’t know about you, but The Blot loves me some Fringe! After all the near cancellations and time slot changes I honestly don’t know what’s more surprising, that the show is ending after 5 wonderful seasons or that the show lasted 5 seasons at all. Thank goodness FOX decided to give the Fringe Division one final (albeit shortened) season to wrap up its intricate and sometimes startling story. I’m just a little disappointed we haven’t seen much of Lance Reddick’s Phillip Broyles this season. Thank goodness we’re getting reunited with Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia tonight…I’m still crossing my fingers for a Charlie Francis sighting.

The series finale of Fringe airs tonight, Friday, January 18th, on Fox at 8/7c. Tune in to see if Olivia, Peter and Walter can stop the Observers once and for all. Who will live…who will survive? All will be known tonight!

Fringe Screen Print #6 - Fringe by Joshua Budich

“Fringe” by Joshua Budich is the sixth print in the Fringe Benefit Screen Print Series released in honor of the hit FOX television show Fringe’s fifth and final season. While the series' first five prints were based on an episode’s case (aka fringe event) selected by fan voting at the Fringe Benefit website, Budich’s print ends the series masterfully with a beautiful image featuring the show’s extended cast. What’s not to love about Budich’s print, it’s even got Leonard Nimoy’s William Bell! I do wish it included Kirk Acevedo's Charlie Francis and Seth Gabel's Lincoln Lee though. The Blot's still holding out hope both characters will reappear in the show’s last 3 episodes.

Joshua Budich’s limited edition 4 color screen print “Fringe” measures 18”x24”, has a run size of 150 pieces (only 100 available for purchase) and comes hand numbered. The print retails for $30 each and can be purchased here.

To celebrate and honor the fifth and final season of Fringe, six of Gallery 1988’s most sought after artists and designers have been commissioned to create screenprints depicting some of the series' most memorable cases. All profits from the Fringe Benefits project will be donated to The Mission Continues, an amazing charity that encourages and aids volunteerism by disabled and wounded veterans. These screenprints are hand-pulled, each its own individual work of art, in an edition of just 150, with only 100 available to the public through this project. Once the edition is sold out, they will never be printed again.

Fringe Screen Print #5 - The Dreamscape by Graham Erwin

“The Dreamscape” by Graham Erwin is the fifth print in the Fringe Benefit Screen Print Series released in honor of the hit FOX television show Fringe’s fifth and final season. Each print will be based on an episode’s case (aka fringe event) selected by fan voting at the Fringe Benefit website. Erwin’s design is based on Episode 109, entitled “The Dreamscape.” In that episode Mark Young, a Massive Dynamic employee, jumps out of a window when he is getting attacked by butterflies that are cutting him. It was a very cool episode and Erwin did a fantastic job recreating that bone cutting scene. The Blot loves how much action is going on in this print!

Graham Erwin’s limited edition Fringe 4 color screen print “The Dreamscape” measures 18”x24”, has a run size of 150 pieces (only 100 available for purchase) and comes hand numbered. The print retails for $30 each and can be purchased here.

To celebrate and honor the fifth and final season of Fringe, six of Gallery 1988’s most sought after artists and designers have been commissioned to create screenprints depicting some of the series' most memorable cases. All profits from the Fringe Benefits project will be donated to The Mission Continues, an amazing charity that encourages and aids volunteerism by disabled and wounded veterans. These screenprints are hand-pulled, each its own individual work of art, in an edition of just 150, with only 100 available to the public through this project. Once the edition is sold out, they will never be printed again.

Fringe Screen Print #4 - The Transformation by Ghoulish Gary Pullin

“The Transformation” by Ghoulish Gary Pullin is the fourth print in the Fringe Benefit Screen Print Series released in honor of the hit FOX television show Fringe’s fifth and final season. Each print will be based on an episode’s case (aka fringe event) selected by fan voting at the Fringe Benefit website. Pullin’s design is based on Episode 113, entitled “The Transformation.” In that episode scientist Marshall Bowman gets a nosebleed on an airplane flight, and he tries to warn the crew to give him sedatives or use force against him. He transforms into a beast in the bathroom, and bursts out, causing the plane to crash. This is one of The Blot’s favorite Fringe episodes, but this print does nothing for me. It looks like a page out of a comic book without any frame of reference. It's also not a piece of art I’d hang on my wall. All in all, this TV show print series has been a pretty big disappointment so far.

Ghoulish Gary Pullin’s limited edition Fringe 4 color screen print “The Transformation” measures 18”x24”, has a run size of 150 pieces (only 100 available for purchase) and comes hand numbered. The print retails for $30 each and can be purchased here.

To celebrate and honor the fifth and final season of Fringe, six of Gallery 1988’s most sought after artists and designers have been commissioned to create screenprints depicting some of the series' most memorable cases. All profits from the Fringe Benefits project will be donated to The Mission Continues, an amazing charity that encourages and aids volunteerism by disabled and wounded veterans. These screenprints are hand-pulled, each its own individual work of art, in an edition of just 150, with only 100 available to the public through this project. Once the edition is sold out, they will never be printed again.

Fringe Screen Print #3 - Earthling by Dave Quiggle

“Earthling” by Dave Quiggle is the third print in the Fringe Benefit Screen Print Series released in honor of the hit FOX television show Fringe’s fifth and final season. Each print will be based on an episode’s case (aka fringe event) selected by fan voting at the Fringe Benefit website. Quiggle’s design is based on Episode 206, entitled “Earthling”, where the Fringe Division is flummoxed by a case where victims are inexplicably disintegrated into ash. This print is ok (I definitely don’t hate it), but I wish it had a little more of a “WOW factor” to it. I really like Quiggle’s work after visiting his website, but this image doesn’t do it for me.

Dave Quiggle’s limited edition Fringe 2 color screen print “Earthling” measures 18”x24”, has a run size of 150 pieces (only 100 available for purchase) and comes hand numbered. The print retails for $30 each and can be purchased here.

To celebrate and honor the fifth and final season of Fringe, six of Gallery 1988’s most sought after artists and designers have been commissioned to create screenprints depicting some of the series' most memorable cases. All profits from the Fringe Benefits project will be donated to The Mission Continues, an amazing charity that encourages and aids volunteerism by disabled and wounded veterans. These screenprints are hand-pulled, each its own individual work of art, in an edition of just 150, with only 100 available to the public through this project. Once the edition is sold out, they will never be printed again.

Fringe Screen Print #2 - The Plateau by Mark Englert

“The Plateau” by Mark Englert is the second screen print in the Fringe Benefit Screen Print Series released in honor of the hit FOX television show Fringe’s fifth and final season. Each print will be based on an episode’s case (aka fringe event) selected by fan voting at the Fringe Benefit website. Englert’s design is based on Episode 303, entitled “The Plateau”, where Olivia, Charlie and Lincoln are called to the scene of an accident where a pedestrian has been run over by a bus, nearly duplicating events of a similar bus accident the day before. Olivia finds a ball-point pen at the scene, a rarity in the parallel universe because of the adoption of digital interfaces. Evidence suggests that the discovery of the pen by a bystander created a sequence of chain reactions that lead to the victim's death.

Englert has been on a tear lately creating a series of amazing landscape prints from some of pop culture’s most popular locales. Over the past year he’s tackled TV shows and movies such as Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Alien…and now Fringe! A killer line-up for sure! Mark Englert’s limited edition Fringe 5 color glow in the dark screen print “The Plateau” measures 36”x12”, has a run size of 150 pieces (only 100 available for purchase) and comes hand numbered. The print retails for $30 each and can be purchased here.

To celebrate and honor the fifth and final season of Fringe, six of Gallery 1988’s most sought after artists and designers have been commissioned to create screenprints depicting some of the series' most memorable cases. All profits from the Fringe Benefits project will be donated to The Mission Continues, an amazing charity that encourages and aids volunteerism by disabled and wounded veterans. These screenprints are hand-pulled, each its own individual work of art, in an edition of just 150, with only 100 available to the public through this project. Once the edition is sold out, they will never be printed again.

Fringe Screen Print #1 - White Tulip by Anthony Petrie

“White Tulip” by Anthony Petrie is the first screen print in the new Fringe Benefit Screen Print Series released in honor of the hit FOX television show Fringe’s fifth and final season. Each print will be based on an episode’s case (aka fringe event) selected by fan voting at the Fringe Benefit website. To kick things off the fans selected Episode 218, entitled “White Tulip”, where Professor Alistair Peck is experimenting on his own body to convert himself into a time machine to travel back in time to see his fiancée.

Anthony Petrie’s limited edition Fringe 4 color screen print “White Tulip” measures 18”x24”, has a run size of 150 pieces (only 100 available for purchase) and comes hand numbered. The print retails for $30 each and can be purchased here.

To celebrate and honor the fifth and final season of Fringe, six of Gallery 1988’s most sought after artists and designers have been commissioned to create screenprints depicting some of the series' most memorable cases. All profits from the Fringe Benefits project will be donated to The Mission Continues, an amazing charity that encourages and aids volunteerism by disabled and wounded veterans. These screenprints are hand-pulled, each its own individual work of art, in an edition of just 150, with only 100 available to the public through this project. Once the edition is sold out, they will never be printed again.

Fringe 100% Be@rbrick

The Blot was super excited to find out Medicom had acquired the license for FOX's Fringe and would be including the TV show in its upcoming Be@brick Series 23. Fringe is one of my favorite shows on television, and I had high expectations for this blind boxed 100% Be@rbrick. But now that I’ve seen the figure it’s kinda disappointing! It’s cool that they used one of the show’s trademark symbols/glyphs from its now debunked cipher, but isn’t it missing the all important yellow dot?

Plus, including its name on the left leg is kinda taking the easy way out right? I mean where’s the creativity! They didn’t do that with Twin Peaks’ generic looking Agent Dale Cooper. I’d be ok with the logo on the figure’s back, but including it in the front is kind of like waving the white flag and admitting the blue hand print isn’t enough on its own to draw a connection to the TV show. I do have to give Medicom props for trying though. Between this and the Twin Peaks Be@rbricks, Medicom is doing a great job tying in to some of my all time favorite sci-fi TV shows. Any guess as to what could be next?

Be@rbrick Series 23 is out now in Japan, and should be making its way stateside in the next few months.

"Walter Bishop Is My Homeboy" Fringe T-Shirt by Enclothe

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an awesome “Jesus Is My Homeboy” spoof, but leave it to Enclothe to bring the funny with their new “Walter Is My Homeboy” t-shirt. Featuring everyone’s favorite Fringe scientist, Walter Bishop, “Walter Is My Homeboy” is almost as good as Enclothe’s first Homeboy tee, “Baltar Is My Homeboy,” which featured Battlestar Galactica’s Gaius Baltar. Personally, I like the BSG shirt more, but how can you not want a cool Fringe t-shirt featuring Dr. Bishop holding a melting ice cream cone and a brain!?!

The limited edition “Walter Is My Homeboy” t-shirt from Enclothe is a black tee with light gray print and comes in sizes S-XXL. You can purchase one of these awesome shirts, while supplies last, here for $21.

Fringe Season 3 Cast Photos

Tonight is the season premiere of Fringe’s third season! To help get you in the mood for the mysterious and unexplained, take a look at the two Fringe Season 3 cast photos below. The photographs are chock full of clues surrounding Fringe’s upcoming season and the show’s alternate universe, appropriately named the “other side.” I especially love the cameo by The Observer in the back ground of photo #1.



Fringe airs Thursday nights at 8/7c on FOX.

Bad Robot 100% Be@rbrick by Medicom

The Blot’s been meaning to blog about this vinyl figure for a while, because I thought LOST fans would get a kick out of learning Medicom has released a 100% Be@rbrick of the Bad Robot mascot as part of its blind boxed Be@rbrick Series 19. As most LOST fans know, Bad Robot Productions (also known as just Bad Robot) is the production company of J.J. Abrams and has produced all of his hit television shows including Felicity, Alias, LOST and Fringe. Bad Robot has also co-produced all of the films Abrams’ has directed, including Mission: Impossible III, Cloverfield and 2009’s Star Trek.


Last year, Medicom and Bad Robot teamed up to produce Star Trek Be@rbricks (seen here and here) in conjunction with the reboot of the franchise. Along with a Spock Be@rbrick, a Bad Robot Be@rbrick was also included in the Be@rbrick Series 19. While Be@rbrick blind boxes are relative cheap (each under $10), the Bad Robot Be@rbrick is one of the rarest designs in the series with a ratio of 2.9%.

The Bad Robot Be@rbrick is definitely one of the coolest 100% Be@rbricks The Blot’s seen in a long time, and I’m definitely hoping to get my hands on one sometime soon to add to my LOST Be@rbrick and Kubrics!

J.J. Abrams’ Fringe

Fringe, the latest series from TV wunderkind J.J. Abrams, debuts tonight, Tuesday, September 9, on FOX. While Abrams (Felicity, Alias) may have created one of my all time favorite television shows, Lost, I have no idea what to expect with his latest creation.


Described as an X-Files for a new generation, Fringe “centers on no-nonsense FBI agent Olivia Dunham, played by Australian newcomer Anna Torv, who explores odd occurrences of ‘fringe’ science. Her path leads to brilliant but mad scientist Walter Biship (John Noble), who must be extracted from a mental hospital, with the help of his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson), dragged reluctantly into the mix.” (link) The show also stars two of my favorite actors from the classic HBO series OZ, Kirk Acevedo and Lance Reddick.

My only problem with the show, and the main reason I am not more excited about it, is that it stars Pacey from Dawson’s Creek! Other than that, it sounds like a winner. Abrams explained to USAToday.com that he “wanted to do a show that had a procedural template, a sort of structure, but doing a procedural in the mold of CSI and Law & Order didn’t interest me.” (link) Instead, Abrams decided to go a rout more reminiscent of The X-Files, by “grafting a larger mythology onto the series that rewards loyal viewers but isn’t essential to any weekly episode.” (link) Basically it’s a version of Lost that’s more welcoming to new viewers and doesn’t take place on an island.

I’m not sold on Fringe yet, but FOX must be. Otherwise how can you explain the $10 million budget the network gave Abrams to produce Fringe’s two hour pilot. (link) Despite my misgivings, I’m going to have to watch tonight’s series premiere. I at least owe Abrams that much for giving the world Lost.

Fringe airs Tuesday nights on FOX at 8/7C.