Juan Ortiz

New Blog:

http://juanortizart.blogspot.com

Juan Ortiz is an artist and designer who has worked for Disney, Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network. Most recently Juan has been creating poster imagery for every Star Trek episode for the Original Series, Next Generation and the Animated Series just as a start.

Leonard Nimoy’s Last Tweet

[read the Yahoo article]

[“Remembering Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015” on StarTrek.com]

Picard - Make it So (Let It Snow)

Published by superchief64, Dec. 3, 2013 on YouTube

Popularized by George Takei on facebook, this is the original "Make it So" song set to the music of "Let It Snow" written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945.

[view at YouTube: http://youtu.be/KeaehxEdpgo]

Present-Day Devices as Props in Star Trek

Every Star Trek production requires a large number of props to act as technical devices of Starfleet or of aliens. There are custom prop designs for standard phasers, tricorders or communicators. But in most cases there is a need for additional props that either serve a specific purpose in the story or are used as generic futuristic decoration. Several of the props that could be seen are actually slightly modified devices of the 20th/21st century.

[read the article on Ex Astris Scientia]
by Jörg Hillebrand and Bernd Schneider
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/present-day-devices.htm

Check out Bernd Schneider’s Star Trek fan site, Ex Astris Scientia, and its many interesting contemplations, observations and discussions.
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index.htm

R2’s Detour: J.J. Abrams Uses Unlikely Hero to Bridge ‘Star’ Franchises

posted on Movie Talk on Yahoo, Sept. 12, 2013

R2-D2 flying by in Paramount Pictures’ ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’.

In case you blinked, Abrams bridges the galaxies between the two great “Star” franchises by sending everyone’s favorite droid flying across the screen in both of the director's “Star Trek” flicks (and his other films as well.)

Read the article on Movie Talk [http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/easter-egg-artist-j-j-abrams-uses-unlikely-220401105.html].

Read a contributing article on io9.

Star Trek Artist Juan Ortiz Was EVERYWHERE as Comic Con

 

Ortiz is the artist behind the colorful and inventive Star Trek: The Original Series Art Prints, which have inspired posters, books, shot glasses, tee-shirts, coasters, wine bottle labels and more. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that this year’s Comic-Con should have been the Juan Ortiz 2013 World Tour. 

For Comic-Con, he created the Klingon House postcards that StarTrek.com gave away to fans throughout weekend, and he beamed to San Diego for autograph signings on Sunday at the Titan (The Art of Juan Ortiz), Mighty Fine (posters) and Entertainment Earth/Bif Bang Pow! (coasters) booths.

[read the entire article @ StarTrek.com]

Matt Ferguson's Orginal Cast Stark Trek Movie Posters

Matt currently exhibits his art all around the world including galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and of course his home country the UK.

[link]
Matt’s site: http://www.cakesandcomics.com/

Star Trek Retro Art Prints by Juan Ortiz

Artist Juan Ortiz has created 80 movie-style posters, one for each and every episode (including the first pilot) of Star Trek: The Original Series.

The images feature retro-style art that recalls 1960’s-era posters, pulp novel covers, comic books and advertisements, and will be introduced at a rate of four a month, on the first of each month, over the next 20 months – and not in chronological order.

Read more about them in an interview with Oritz at StarTrek.com
[series 1] : http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-new-retro-art-prints
[series 2] : http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-septembers-tos-retro-art-posters
[series 3] : http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-octobers-tos-retro-art-prints
[series 4] : http://www.startrek.com/article/november-tos-retro-art-prints-available-today
[series 5] : http://www.startrek.com/article/december-tos-retro-art-prints-now-available
[series 6] : http://www.startrek.com/article/january-tos-art-prints-available-now

Check out Juan Ortiz’s website:
http://www.juanortiz.org/

What’s In Spock’s Scanner?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2l38DoqsQ