Mike Bielaczyc Hey everyone, mike here. The other day I spent some time at the easel painting and I was thinking of new ways to reach new art fans. I have had so much success at Kickstarter, I decided I wanted to try my hand at an art focused project. One of the big gambles making art … Read more
One of the big problems with being a retail shop on the road is getting from place to place with all your stock, employees, and doing it in style. Well the old van was starting to show its age (but hey, its still running well for 280,000 miles), so we started looking into new options. … Read more
In 2011, Aradani Studios went out to Los Angeles to visit family and friends. As a group we also got to visit the Movie Museum at Bob Burns. Ever since I was a kid I was lucky enough to be able to go and visit and check out all of his cool stuff. In fact … Read more
So when people find out that Aradani Studios is family run and that we are all artists, the first thing people ask is “are your parents artists?” And though they are creative and supportive, they are not the artists you are looking for. But our uncles are. We grew up hearing stories of our … Read more
So Disney didn’t do so well in US theaters with Tron Legacy, but when everything was said and done, they pulled in over 400 million worldwide. Not a bad haul. Legacy’s director, Joseph Kosinski has a new film that I am looking forward to – Oblivion. He says he is ready to return to the Grid . … Read more
So I was day dreaming about making a post apocalyptic costume today. I then went and checked out the images from Wasteland Weekend and got angry that it always happens during our busy time, so I will never be able to visit that show. Then I wondered why we don’t have something like that on the … Read more
So recently someone pointed out that our Aradani photo galleries were spread out all over the site, some in our old photo gallery which was only accessible through the costume front page, the photo galleries here on the blog, and an old static page. So I have gone through and moved them all here! Now you can … Read more
I can't believe that it is about to happen. With all the legal problems, switching of director's, and lawsuits, we will finally get to see the first part of the three (or is it four now?) movies in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. In honor of this, I moved our old Hobbit article over from the … Read more
Hey everyone, Mike here. Today over lunch I was thinking about having a design made to go on the back of some of my hoodies and the front of a couple of tshirts. Then I thought that others might like to have this too. So I was wondering if I had this design made, would … Read more
We already miss it! So we were wondering, did you use some of our products in your costumes? Did you get any good pictures? If so, mail them to us! This isn’t a contest and mailing them to us will not change your chances of winning in our 2012 Winter Costume contest, but we would … Read more