There is a massively awesome art show going on right now in Los Angeles. 

Gallery 1988 is currently sporting Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee, where literally dozens of talented and recognizable artists have created works in their own style that pay personal homage to the characters and influence of one Stan "The Man" Lee.   Perhaps you've heard of him.

TheFeed chased down and snuck in behind Blair Butler as she attended opening night.  Incredibly, she allowed our Geek Out team to shoot her while she shot the shoot with a grip of gifted artists, Gallery 1988's bounding and boundless curator Jensen Karp and...wait for it...no, really...stop it, you're killing us...The Marvelous One himself.   

We swear on our mothers, it's the truth.  The video below proves it.   The only problem was that we had to go back and redub everybody's voices, as the original audio was rendered useless by the relentless sound of jaws hitting the floor.

For Paste-Pot Pete's sake, don't miss this show.

Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee runs only until this Friday, Feb.1.  

Geek Out: Art Tribute to Stan Lee

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Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is the latest in a string of films made by former Monty Python Terry Gilliam to be thunderstruck by bad luck. In this case, however, Ledger's friend Johnny Depp might be willing to step up and take over the part so that Heath's last film might be finished.

There is apparently a piece of the film in which Ledger's character falls though a magic mirror, and, at that time, it would be logical for another character to take his place. It would be excellent if they were able to finish the film and seal Ledger's legacy, and for Gilliam to finally have the opportunity to finish a film.

The Sun: Johnny to be Heath stand-in

Scarlett Johansson is not only the most beautiful woman on Earth, but she also has excellent taste in music, as can be gleaned from the fact that her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, is composed of ten Tom Waits covers and one original composition that exists so that you don't go, "she's cute, but she can only sing other people's songs."

The album has a release date of May 20th, and we can't wait. Not because we think it's going to be good, although Scarlett seems to be a young lady of decent principles, so it's unlikely she would release an album if she couldn't sing. No, we're hoping she'll go on tour. We really, really, really want to see her live. You know what we mean?

LA Times: ScarJo album gets release date

Videogames probably won't be a wedge issue in the upcoming presidential election or the current primary race, but politics is very strange, and maybe, just maybe, voters who care about abortion, separation of church and state, Iraq, whether we should abolish the Federal Reserve and return to the gold standard, or whether puppies are cuter than kittens will split the vote in a way that leaves the election up to the 15 people for whom videogames are the only issue.

If you’re one of those 15 people, please enjoy our look at how the various presidential candidates stand on videogames.

Barack Obama: Obama is the youngest of the candidates, and so, in our opinion, is likely to be the most familiar with gaming. Plus he uses a Blackberry.  When asked recently by Common Sense Media for his views on gaming regulation, Obama was in favor of better industry self-regulation “I would call upon the video game industry to give parents better information about programs and video games by improving the voluntary rating system we currently have.” But, if the industry fails to hold up their end of the bargain, Barack says his administration would step in.