On a recent Saturday morning, Mayra Plascencia and Peter Aguirre were in the first handful of people waiting in line to meet Tim Burton at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The two 31-year-olds had arrived at 9:30 the previous night, and Plascencia had made a gift for Burton: a small figurine of a black "creepy cat."
The rest of the line, which began near the museum's box office, traveled down an impressive staircase and swung out onto Wilshire Boulevard, past the Tar Pits and around the corner, displayed more overt symbols of the Burton obsession. A few people were wearing seemingly homemade Edward Scissorhands T-shirts and sweatshirts. One girl arrived in a patchwork skirt reminiscent of Sally's from The Nightmare Before Christmas, while another had her hair covered in a Jack Skellington scarf from the same film. A third wore a wide-brimmed black hat similar to the one Winona Ryder wore as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice.
Many of these fans had already been notified that there was a good chance they wouldn't get a face-to-face encounter. Still, the line persisted. A total of 719 people would come face to face with the director to have him sign their exhibition books,Thousands of discount ed hardy shoes styles for selection. and LACMA estimates more than 1,400 books were signed.
The large, well-hyped exhibition of Burton's work, which began life at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, was finally set to open in the director's hometown the next day. But in many respects, Burton's fans give an even greater insight into the artist's work than the collection does. They cross subculture divides,You can find out history about Air max 360 as well as release dates at Nice Kicks. indicating both the diversity of his own influences and the range of his appeal. They're frequently as stylized in appearance as his films, dressed in a manner that may be out of synch with what's currently considered hip but that identifies them as part of a larger, trend-bucking movement.
Later, Plascencia met Burton and gave him the cat. "He said, 'Oh, my God, you made this for me? Thank you,we sale the ed hardy Shirt in low price but with high quality.This Adidas Jacket will battle the rain, wind and cold weather so you can focus on the game.'?" she recalls. "He was really happy."
Aguirre didn't get to meet Burton. He gave up his spot in line to a stranger — 26-year-old Joana Ward, who drove up from the city of Orange, arrived at 6 a.m. and was still so deep in the crowd that her fate was uncertain. "I went to the back of the line to the last 200 and I counted all the people and said, 'Who is a big fan?'?" Aguirre says.
How big of a fan is Ward? She had Burton sign the inside of her forearm with the intention of having the autograph tattooed.
Also near the front of the line were Erika Gleim, Natalie Zhao and Jonathan York. Gleim and Zhao are UCLA students, and York works in the video game industry. They had arrived at 11 p.m. the night before, and befriended Plascencia and Aguirre.
"It's a weird bonding experience," York says. "We might not ever see each other again. Who knows? At the same time, for the last 12 hours that we've been together, we're kind of like family."
Can you imagine any other big-budget Hollywood filmmaker commanding such a massive response? Perhaps George Lucas could, but that's dependent on whether fan anger over the Star Wars prequels got in the way. This was a reception fit for a rock star, not a director, and certainly not an artist. It was like the greeting of a rock star from another decade, an era when people still camped out for concert tickets that would sell out in less than 20 minutes, and still went to Tower Records for signings from bands who played stadiums.
There was a strange mix of nostalgic and modern at LACMA's opening- weekend events. The late-20s and early 30s crowd, people like Plascencia and York, recall seeing Burton's first major film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, as children. Then there are the teenagers, Gleim and Zhao, who weren't even born when Edward Scissorhands was released but clearly have a love for that film and other early Burton works, as well as a fondness for newer films such as 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
The exhibition drew crowds of people straddling decades. On Saturday, a girl hoping to meet Burton,Christian louboutin discount men's shoes are among the best in terms of generally being comfortable for women to wear. dressed like a 1950s starlet, sat on a blanket covered with the skulls associated with punk band the Misfits. On Sunday, at least a dozen teens roamed through the museum courtyard in T-shirts boasting the names of bands that broke up years ago, the rest of their outfits looking completely 2011. Men and women strolled across the plaza in neo-Victorian vests and corsets. Every now and then, a girl walked by dressed in old-meets-new gothic Lolita fashion, with its full, midlength skirt and ruffled details. Parasols were a popular accessory.
The CalArts-educated Burton often is thought of as the consummate outsider, a perspective fueled by his suburban upbringing in Burbank. He fuses this outsider status with commercial films, movies with big budgets and the backing of Disney and other Hollywood studios. His choice of actors, from Johnny Depp to Christina Ricci to his partner, Helena Bonham Carter, has leaned toward the unconventional. Danny Elfman, his longtime composer of choice, was new to film music when Burton hired him to score Pee-wee's Big Adventure. His band, Oingo Boingo, may not have made Top 40 inroads but were wildly popular in L.A., where they played an annual Halloween show until 1995.
The rest of the line, which began near the museum's box office, traveled down an impressive staircase and swung out onto Wilshire Boulevard, past the Tar Pits and around the corner, displayed more overt symbols of the Burton obsession. A few people were wearing seemingly homemade Edward Scissorhands T-shirts and sweatshirts. One girl arrived in a patchwork skirt reminiscent of Sally's from The Nightmare Before Christmas, while another had her hair covered in a Jack Skellington scarf from the same film. A third wore a wide-brimmed black hat similar to the one Winona Ryder wore as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice.
Many of these fans had already been notified that there was a good chance they wouldn't get a face-to-face encounter. Still, the line persisted. A total of 719 people would come face to face with the director to have him sign their exhibition books,Thousands of discount ed hardy shoes styles for selection. and LACMA estimates more than 1,400 books were signed.
The large, well-hyped exhibition of Burton's work, which began life at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, was finally set to open in the director's hometown the next day. But in many respects, Burton's fans give an even greater insight into the artist's work than the collection does. They cross subculture divides,You can find out history about Air max 360 as well as release dates at Nice Kicks. indicating both the diversity of his own influences and the range of his appeal. They're frequently as stylized in appearance as his films, dressed in a manner that may be out of synch with what's currently considered hip but that identifies them as part of a larger, trend-bucking movement.
Later, Plascencia met Burton and gave him the cat. "He said, 'Oh, my God, you made this for me? Thank you,we sale the ed hardy Shirt in low price but with high quality.This Adidas Jacket will battle the rain, wind and cold weather so you can focus on the game.'?" she recalls. "He was really happy."
Aguirre didn't get to meet Burton. He gave up his spot in line to a stranger — 26-year-old Joana Ward, who drove up from the city of Orange, arrived at 6 a.m. and was still so deep in the crowd that her fate was uncertain. "I went to the back of the line to the last 200 and I counted all the people and said, 'Who is a big fan?'?" Aguirre says.
How big of a fan is Ward? She had Burton sign the inside of her forearm with the intention of having the autograph tattooed.
Also near the front of the line were Erika Gleim, Natalie Zhao and Jonathan York. Gleim and Zhao are UCLA students, and York works in the video game industry. They had arrived at 11 p.m. the night before, and befriended Plascencia and Aguirre.
"It's a weird bonding experience," York says. "We might not ever see each other again. Who knows? At the same time, for the last 12 hours that we've been together, we're kind of like family."
Can you imagine any other big-budget Hollywood filmmaker commanding such a massive response? Perhaps George Lucas could, but that's dependent on whether fan anger over the Star Wars prequels got in the way. This was a reception fit for a rock star, not a director, and certainly not an artist. It was like the greeting of a rock star from another decade, an era when people still camped out for concert tickets that would sell out in less than 20 minutes, and still went to Tower Records for signings from bands who played stadiums.
There was a strange mix of nostalgic and modern at LACMA's opening- weekend events. The late-20s and early 30s crowd, people like Plascencia and York, recall seeing Burton's first major film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, as children. Then there are the teenagers, Gleim and Zhao, who weren't even born when Edward Scissorhands was released but clearly have a love for that film and other early Burton works, as well as a fondness for newer films such as 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
The exhibition drew crowds of people straddling decades. On Saturday, a girl hoping to meet Burton,Christian louboutin discount men's shoes are among the best in terms of generally being comfortable for women to wear. dressed like a 1950s starlet, sat on a blanket covered with the skulls associated with punk band the Misfits. On Sunday, at least a dozen teens roamed through the museum courtyard in T-shirts boasting the names of bands that broke up years ago, the rest of their outfits looking completely 2011. Men and women strolled across the plaza in neo-Victorian vests and corsets. Every now and then, a girl walked by dressed in old-meets-new gothic Lolita fashion, with its full, midlength skirt and ruffled details. Parasols were a popular accessory.
The CalArts-educated Burton often is thought of as the consummate outsider, a perspective fueled by his suburban upbringing in Burbank. He fuses this outsider status with commercial films, movies with big budgets and the backing of Disney and other Hollywood studios. His choice of actors, from Johnny Depp to Christina Ricci to his partner, Helena Bonham Carter, has leaned toward the unconventional. Danny Elfman, his longtime composer of choice, was new to film music when Burton hired him to score Pee-wee's Big Adventure. His band, Oingo Boingo, may not have made Top 40 inroads but were wildly popular in L.A., where they played an annual Halloween show until 1995.
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