See more photos in "Sanrio Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary with 'Small Gift.'"

L.A.-based artist Peekaboo Monster has neighbors who make soap. He wanted to include soap in his work for Small Gift, Sanrio's 50th anniversary art show currently running at Santa Monica Barker Hangar. But how was he going to combine the two?

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​ Fight Club, of course.

"Honestly, we were all just kind of hanging out one night and drinking and having fun and it just kind of clicked," he said at the November 11 opening party. "I was like, 'Let's tie it into a Fight Club theme. It will tie it in with the soap and we'll make the characters basically kind of being turned into the soap bars.'"

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When we first saw this mash-up of Scott Pilgrim and The Venture Bros. floating around on Twitter, it made our day. The piece was created by Annie Wu, a Baltimore-based artist and recent graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, as part of a contest Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley held. She didn't win, but her work has traveled amongst fans of both series.

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Read more in "Inside Misha's Studio: Where Hello Kitty Meets 'Ghost in the Shell.'"

Last week, we paid a visit to Misha, an L.A.-based artist whose work will be featured in the forthcoming Harajuku-themed group show Sweet Streets. We began chatting about pop culture influences and Misha mentioned video games.

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"Return of Mario Bros."

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Political Remix Video recently posted a small collection of mash-ups commenting on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and BP's reaction. Of the smattering of YouTube clips, we were entranced by one that juxtaposed "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid with news footage of the spill and a bit from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away

​We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. Our inspiration was Lando Calrissian, but we know that not everyone can pull off the mustachioed look like the coolest Baron Administrator of Cloud City. Check out our top 5 looks below:

Captain James T. Kirk, Star Trek

​When you're dealing with the ladies' man of the USS Enterprise, only one mustache will do, the Tom Selleck 'stache.

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See more images of Party Against Westboro in Christopher Victorio's photo gallery.

Saturday morning, Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps' Kansas-based group infamous for their "God Hates [insert target du jour here]" signs and habit of protesting funerals, descended upon Long Beach for the second time this year. The church's latest visit, which coincided with the city's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival, sparked the Party Against Westboro, an Internet-driven, pop culture-centric meet-up that drowned out antagonism with memes.

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Have you ever wondered what Mos Eisley Cantina might be like if it were Lebowski-fied? We haven't, but YouTube user mrdreamisasleep did.

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Tonight at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, TCM Classic Film Fest opens with a poolside screening of Neptune's Daughter, a 1949 musical featuring Esther Williams, Betty Garrett and Ricardo Montalban. In the spirit of Williams' famed water ballet scenes, the screening will feature a performance from L.A. performance troupe, Aqualillies.

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Aqualillies are no strangers to the Roosevelt. Last year, they held a Thursday night residency at the hotel. The company, which features twenty synchronized swimmers and dancers (typically between six and twelve will perform at a time), has played numerous events and private parties over the course of the past year. They have also held synchronized swimming lessons and have a new series of courses coming up this June at the Annenberg Beach House.

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Every few weeks, L.A.-based performance/art collective The League of S.T.E.A.M. unleashes a new video filled with steampunk adventures of a supernatural nature. They also perform live at art spaces, nightclubs and fandom conventions. If you were at Comic-Con last year, you might recognize some of the members as the steampunk panelists.

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We love fan-made, mash-up videos. Whether they're anime music videos or strange juxtapositions of beloved TV shows, the creativity, humor and technical skill involved continues to impress us. But, when vidders, or fan video editors, use their skills to highlight criticism of various media, things start to get really interesting.

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Last Thursday, we headed to Cal State Northridge for its Remixing Pop Culture panel. Organized by video blogger Anita Sarkeesian, the event focused on mash-ups that specifically critique gender roles in mass media. (Check out her video game commentary set to Flight of the Conchords.) Featured on the panel was Jonathan McIntosh, a vidder, media literacy educator and fair use activist who might be best known to the YouTube-viewing world as the person behind the viral hit "Buffy vs. Edward."

A "pop culture hacker," McIntosh has previously used vidding as a medium for critiquing media responses to war in Iraq and the 2008 presidential debates. With "Buffy vs. Edward," McIntosh zoomed in on the often-criticized behavior of Twilight's romantic hero, Edward Cullen, by piecing together scenes of the blockbuster movie with those from the hit TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the video, he asks how a female lead like Buffy deal with the domineering vampire.

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