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Tim Doyle is an Austin-based illustrator and print-maker. For an exhibition entitled “Unreal Estate” that opens today at Spoke Art in San Francisco, he recreated some of TV’s most memorable fictional settings, from Moe’s Tavern to Satriale’s Pork Store. And by recreate, I mean he made them kind of terrifying, or in artist speak:
“Unreal Estate” is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon. (Spoke Art)
As someone who goes out of his way to visit pop culture locations, I really like Daly’s work, and he does a nice job of getting the little details right, like the car outside of Monk’s with the ASSMAN license plate. That being said, I’m really glad he only did three Springfield locations — looking at his vision of Uncle Moe’s Family Feedbag would make me not believe in sunshine and puppy dogs anymore. Take a look at some of his work.
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The Monk’s painting not only has the ASSMAN car, but also the two bums wearing puffy shirts and (presumably) David Puddy in the “8-ball” jacket. And of course, the four silhouettes inside Monk’s resemble the Seinfeld regulars. It reminds me of Nighthawks, but funnier.
Ernie and Bert silhouettes in the Sesame St window as well…
I think the one bum’s sign even says “Help an old pirate”. It’s hard to read, but the word “pirate” is definitely in there.
On second thought, no, please do not tell me how to get to Sesame Street.
I really like the Moe’s and Kwik-E-Mart ones — it takes the cartoon sheen off of things that are supposed to be shitty.
It seems nobody wants to hang out in a dank pit no more.
“Hey, this isn’t faux dive. This is a dive.”
“You’re a long way from home, yuppie boy. I’ll start a tab.”
There’s always money in slide 5.
Until I saw the hover tag, I thought that slide 7 was “123 Fake St.”
Moe’s Tavern: Home of the world’s smallest big screen TV.
seeing the banana stand on fire reminds me of Patric O’Neal’s appearance in Arrested. RIP!
“Did you burn down the banana stand?”
“Oh most definitely”
I think we can all now agree that Springfield is in Michigan.
Sesame Street looks like the nastiest ghetto
in for the bleeding gums murphy appearance.
– I never heard of the word “embiggens” until I moved to Springfield.
– It’s a perfectly cromulent word