What's Up Danger? The Into The Spider-Verse Tribute Show

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What’s Up Danger? The Into The Spider-Verse Tribute Show

July 11, 2019 By Joshua Ching

Finally, an art show from Gallery Nucleus. I remember in the early days of my site, when I was I was always on the hunt for art shows that I could hit up for easy content and I felt like I was going to Gallery Nucleus every other month because they were always having something cool. Then 2019 rolled around and for the next few months they just didn’t have anything that caught my eye.

I don’t mean to disrespect Gallery Nucleus. I’ve already said in the past about how they’re always putting on great exhibitions and in fact they’re exhibitions make up like 90% of the content in my art section, it was just that up until now they just didn’t have anything that really appealed to me.

The lack of art shows did give me the benefit of allowing me to concentrate my energy on other things. There were all those conventions I went to—if you’ve kept up in my travels sections you would have seen that I had C2E2 and WonderCon back to back plus Corgi Beach Day immediately following those so that was a lot of content I was trying to get out as quickly as possible. Then there was me getting a new puppy which has eaten up a lot of my time and then there was all that design work I added to my site.

Anyway, Gallery Nucleus’s What’s Up Danger? Into the Spider-Verse Tribute Exhibition: originally, I was going to hit this exhibition up on opening night but then I found out my friends Dean and Gladys Rullan were having their Stan Lee Tribute Exhibition on the same night. Between the fact that I’m such good friends with Dean and Gladys and also that their exhibition was a one night only deal while Gallery Nucleus would have the pieces from the Into the Spider-Verse exhibition up for at least a few weeks I figured I’d go to the Rullans’ exhibition and hit up Nucleus the next day

Honestly, I’m so glad I waited to go to Gallery Nucleus. When I went, there weren’t that many people present which made it so much easier to take photos. I didn’t have to worry about people getting in my way or waiting for them to get out of my way, I could also take my time and make sure I got a good photos of the pieces because I didn’t feel like I had to be courteous and try to get out of the way for other people. It was just such an easier environment to work in.

Considering how much content I’ve gotten out of Gallery Nucleus and how beneficial it is for me to work when there’s less people around I should really think about contacting their management and seeing if they’re willing take me on as their event photographer or something. It would be nice if they gave me early access to the gallery to take photos before more people came in and I’m hoping that making friends with them would also open other doors and opportunities for me.

Anyway, I’m going to admit it, I actually haven’t seen Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse yet—or at least the whole thing. I bought it on Blu-Ray when it came out and I’m about an hour through it right now and I’m hoping I can finish it soon. In fact, with San Diego Comic Con coming up I feel I really need to see it. After seeing what I did see from Into the Spider-Verse I realized that a couple of the cosplayers I saw at C2E2 and WonderCon were inspired by Into the Spider-Verse and that a couple of times I was either incorrect about them or just didn’t have enough information about them to provide a more meaningful write-up. Like I said with San Diego Comic Con coming up I’m going to see a lot of cool cosplayers and since I’ve built this site on my knowledge of pop culture I’ll need to do my studying so I’ll know what I’m seeing when I get there. It’s just that with all the content that’s being churned out in movies, on television, on streaming services, and in comic books it’s just a lot to absorb. I can probably try to hope I can wing it with what I already know but realistically if I want to stay on top of my game I’m going to need to absorb as much as possible.

I am a bit surprised though that Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was released on Netflix. With Disney+ set to be released later this year I figured that Disney would be saving it for that. Although I’m thinking the reason why it was released on Netflix is because Sony Pictures still controls the distribution rights to it and they decided they should put it up on Netflix.

While I have not been able to finish it yet, I do want to say that so far I really like Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’s animation style—I was just blown away on how they were able to give off that comicbook feel and lot of the pieces that Gallery Nucleus had on display did a really good job of replicating this feel.

Since I haven’t finished Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse yet I really don’t know what else to say other than enjoy the artwork!