Archive for October, 2009

Fantastic Fest Posters And Shirts Available Now!

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

After Fantastic Fest was over, we found a few extra posters and shirts lying around and figured that there were probably a few of you that wanted to come to Fantastic Fest, but didn’t get a chance to attend. Well, here’s your chance to get one of our official fest shirts or 3D poster.

This year’s Fantastic Fest poster was incredible. Jon Vermilyea did a fantastic job on it and it is also 3D! You may be asking, where are all of the red and blue lines. There aren’t any! There are several different types of 3D processes and we decided to go with the Chromadepth process to avoid having the lines muddy up the image. All purchases come with a pair of Chromadepth 3D glasses for viewing.

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FANTASTIC FEST 2009 3D by Jon Vermilyea. 24×36. Limited to only 85. $30

fantastic-fest-poster-no-textWe also decided to print it as an art print without any of the festival text. This is available for $50 and is limited to only 10!

Our shirts were also gorgeous this year. We decided to do them in 3 different colors; purple squid on black, purple squid on asphalt and a glow in the dark squid on black. These also have the festival sponsor logos on the back. All on sale for only $15!

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430x500graysquid430x500glowblackAs always, click on the pictures to go to the item page or hit up www.mondotees.com to see all of our wares.

-Justin

Jess Franco Sword Award Pictures

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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This year was a very memorable Fantastic Fest, but one of the most exciting things for us was producing the sword that was given to Jess Franco for his Lifetime Achievement award. Lars had came to us earlier in festival planning and said he wanted to do something very special for Jess. Most awards are bogus. Plaques…lame. Trophies…boring. Oscar statues…yeccch! Who needs em?! We both agreed that the only way to go would be to make a mighty sword to present Jess on his big day.

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Lars and I looked at hundreds of sword examples online. We considered styles of swords ranging from Conan’s Atlantean sword to the friggin Tri-Blade, but we decided on a simple, more noble alternative. We decided to go with the weapon a knight would yield. We also based the grip of the sword on Thor’s hammer Mjolnir. The criss crossing lethers and embedded studs gave it a great texture as well as an awesome look. The Fantastic Fest pommel was created by Jim Rogers who also sculpted our Demon Scourge ring. Jim has now become our go to guy for all things metal. Maybe everyone in Spain should pitch in to commission Jim to make a gigantic bronze statue of Jess. He deserves it!

-Justin