Have you noticed that Norway keeps popping up in big budget Hollywood blockbuster movies lately, as either a filming location or even as part of the story?
While there there used to be very few references to Norway in English-language films and television shows, you’re now much more likely to see Norway appear in American or British pop culture.
This is a video adaptation of my The Art of Theodor Kittelsen article.
The Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen is my favorite painter. During his career as an illustrator he defined the look of trolls, Norwegian folklore, and The Black Death in Norway. The video includes some of his best paintings, and explains what makes his art so great.
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When I was asked to write a post about pop culture, the first thing that “popped” into my mind was Andy Warhol. The king of pop, as we have been taught in our school days.
Would you be interested in writing guest posts for my blog?
I am looking for posts about something that you like from popular culture. A movie, or book, song, painting, TV-show, video game, etc.
A few days ago, Ruth from Silver Screenings held The Silver Screenings Awards over on their website.
This is an award that they hand out to various bloggers they like, from time to time.
When it comes to awards in the blogging community, one has to be specific.
This is not a chain letter interview-award.
I do appreciate getting those aswell, as it can be fun answering questions, but I don’t think that those should have been given the name “award”.
How about “chain-interview”?
No. This is a more conventional award, with several winners in different categories.
And I won in the Pop Culture category! Thanks Ruth 😀
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Since part of the reason for getting this reward was my varied output of posts, I decided I would link to a few of my pop culture posts about various forms of media.
Of course, if you are more interested in one subject than another, clicking on a posts category tag should help you find even more of what you are interested in.
I hope you enjoy.
Art: The Art of Theodor Kittelsen
Comics:
The Scrooge McDuck Origin Story