This is a painting done from a screen capture off a Youtube video I was watching. I sorta’ like it. All Photoshop
I don’t really know how I found it…but on Youtube, I saw a clip from the 1967 Batman TV show, where Batman gets into a surf contest against the Joker. Here’s a spoiler…Batman wins. He wins because he got 50 points for spraying Bat-Shark Repellent at a shark that was inserted into the scene. You go, Batman! This was one of those classic surfer stereotypes of the 60’s. Batman and Joker paddle out into a micro-surf swell…around knee high. Then they both take off on the same wave, paddling on their knees (old school…and ouch)….but then we cut to the blue screen where Adam West and Cesar Romero act like they’re balancing on boards…and the wave on the screen behind them is double overhead. Like I said…it’s classic stuff.
Anyway…if you care, the here’s the video too:
Holy Batwings Rob, looks like Youtube yanked the vid. Too bad, I hear the Batman theme and I feel like a kid again.
thanks for the memories
HMMMM…that was weird. I just linked it to a new one…seems to work now.
that was hilarious! It just got better and better! Your blog is so fun and clever!
Great stuff indeed – and it even included the ever effervescent Yvonne Craig as Batgirl!
haha, I know I’m a little late, seeing as this has been posted for a while, but that was hilarious.
That video… It was… I mean… I had to stop it. My mind was telling me that it simply couldn’t be real, but my eyes and ears and heart reported that it was actually happening.
Batman was the first tv show I ever saw on a color set.
Still haven’t quite recovered, even if our set was about a 13 incher.
But your painting is way better than that, Rob.
If the show was surreal, seeing it so “painterly” only heightens the effect.
Wow…Tim, thanks! My parents wouldn’t even let me watch it when I was a kid, they said it would rot my brain because it was so stupid. I still don’t know what they were talking about…this show was a classic in the theater of the absurd.