Damon, Carlton and A Polar Bear & Breaking GIFs
Scheer was the centerpiece of a Lost Viral campaign which started during the 2009 Lost Comic-Con panel. During the Q&A segment Scheer presented a velvet painting to Damon and Carlton arm and arm with a polar bear that he claimed to have spent the last 6 months working on. He told the crowd that more of his art would be appearing on his personal website DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com, named after his painting, Scheer handed the painting to Damon Lindelof. The following months after Comic Con the site began to reveal special limited edition artwork that was created by popular artists and only available to fans of the show who were following the clues of the game that Scheer set up. Scheer remained the figurehead of the viral event and even ended up hosting the final Lost panel at the Paley Center in Los Angeles during the final season.
Scheer returned to his role of superfan and helped kick-off Breaking GIFs another viral Art Campaign also created by Gallery 1988. Scheer appeared in a handful of online videos, one famously in his underwear, announcing his latest art project, Animated Gifs inspired by the show, Breaking Bad. The event culminated in a gallery show of a similar set of special limited edition artwork that was created by popular artists and only available to fans of the show who were following the clues of the online game.
It's been stated in interviews that Scheer's involvement in both campaigns stemmed from a mutual admiration of the respective show's creators and Scheer's work.
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Famous quotes containing the words polar, bear and/or breaking:
“In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.”
—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)
“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
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“As easy mayst thou fall
A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
And take unmingled thence that drop again,
Without addition or diminishing,
As take from me thyself and not me too.”
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