Welcome to Bigfoot National Park

Bigfoot poster by Belgium artist Laurent Durieux (Click to enlarge)

From the AcidFreeGallery Website: 

BIGFOOT - We are excited to share with you Laurent Durieux's latest screen print release. Bigfoot will be for sale during our Myths and Monster's online print release on Friday, 7/27. We are showing you the regular version which will be a 16x24, 6 color, limited edition run of 150. There will also be a variant edition of 75. The variant edition features Glow-in-the-dark ink, slight color variations and changes to the art itself.  (See the variant on Wednesday when we preview the entire Myths and Monsters print release. ) The screen prints are professionally crafted by D&L Screen printing on 100lb Cougar Natural paper. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for a chance to win a free Bigfoot regular print! See the art work and more info about Laurent below:

Check out these variations of the above poster. Bigfoot seems to be missing until you turn out the lights. have to see these  posters for "Welcome to Bigfoot National Forest" by Belgium artist Laurent Durieux.

Alternative version, bigfoot is still in the poster can you see him? (click to enlarge)

Perhaps if we turn out the light?

With the lights off Bigfoot is revealed (click to enlarge)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Belgium, the holy land of beers and cartoons, Laurent Durieux has been a professional illustrator for 20 years. While teaching Graphic design at the College of Advertising and Design in Brussels, he participated to numerous exhibitions all over Europe and is recognized by renowned fellow artists like Ever Meulen, François Schuiten, Avril and Beb deum to name a few. Laurent’ vintage (yet modern) style is influenced by the 30’s, 40's and 50’s era and has developed a fascination for “the Future that never was”. In 2010 he was honoured to have been chosen by Canal+ France to create the CGI short film “Hellville”, produced by the famous Director Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue, Diva...). Critically acclaimed by Variety, “Hellville” was selected at the Annecy, Porto and Chicago International Film Festivals. Laurent is proud to be among, in the word of the prestigious magazine “ARCHIVES”, the 200 best illustrators worldwide.

In 2012, Laurent was approached by legendary alternative poster publisher Mondo (Austin, TX) as well as Los Angeles based poster publisher Dark Hall Mansion to create several licensed edition posters for classic titles like Gigantor (TetsuGin 28-go), Snoopy, King Kong (Martin Scorcese's The film Foundation), The Iron Giant and the Amazing Spider-man...

An image is worth a 1000 words,

So check other sample of his work at www.flickr.com/photos/laurentdurieux

Official Website of Letters From The Big Man Launched Today

Screenshot of Letters from the Big Man website

We have been fans of this movie since it went into production. Click on the following link to read about our previous coverage of Letters from the Big Man.   You can go to the full website At LetterFromTheBigMan.com, where you can buy copies of the DVD.

For those of you who are not familiar with the Movie the synopsis is as follows:

Following a painful breakup, Sarah Smith (LILY RABE) embarks on a post-fire stream survey for the Forest Service in southern Oregon. A journey down a wild and scenic river leads her to a remote wilderness surrounded by scorched landscapes. Here she first senses being followed by a presence that will not reveal itself. Visitation from the “big man” (ISAAC C. SINGLETON JR.) continues, more overtly, at the remote cabin to which Sarah repairs to write up her fieldwork. A budding romance with a wilderness advocate (JASON BUTLER HARNER) she met on her trip leads to surprising revelations about the government and sasquatch, and conflicting agendas, that force Sarah to take bold steps to protect the privacy of her big friend, as well as her own.

For all you Portlanders, We are celebrating the launch of the a website and the DVD availability at Dig-A-Pony on Sunday the 29th. We will screen a few chapters of the movie, giving away free DVDs and Author Thom Powell will speak, he was a consultant on the movie and is interviewed in the bonus documentary that comes with the DVD.

If you would like to RSVP please go to the event page Screening of Letters from the Big Man. We will also show Legend of Boggy Creek as the night gets darker.

We hope to see you there!

HBO's The Newsroom: Bigfoot is Real

Presentation on HBO's The Newsroom Opens with Bigfoot as Apex Predator primate

On July 2nd we reported the new hit HBO series The Newsroom was going dedicate an episode on whether or not Bigfoot has a place in the news. While we couldn't wait to have a hit TV show talk about Bigfoot, we were afraid the Bigfoot parts would only last for a fleeting moment, or marginalized to the punchline of a joke. But, we also hoped it would be more, after all, this TV series is brought to us by the Aaron Sorkin, an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The West Wing, and the Facebook docudrama The Social Network. 

We were not disappointed.

Neal Sampat (Dev Patel) plays the resident internet geek/blogger on The Newsroom. He begins the episode talking about Bigfoot at a party, later in the episode he actually convinces the news team to watch his power point presentation on Bigfoot: The Apex Predator primate.

Just the fact that the character was not a punchline and sincere in his pursuit of Bigfoot is satisfying by itself, using terms like apex predator? Well, that's icing on the cake. Not only does apex predator sound cool, but it is great descriptor of Bigfoot. Apex predators (also known as top-level predators) are predators with no predators of their own, residing at the top of their food chain.

We were nice enough to piece together just the Bigfoot parts in the video below. While many of the Bigfoot arguments are familiar to us, the ones in this episode are not familiar (or even used) in mainstream media. Kudos to Aaron Sorkin for his portrayal of Bigfooters.