The Big Lebowski

Photographed from directly above through smoked glass, so the whole surface is veiled by glare, reflections of ceiling lamps and a faint reflected caption in an unfamiliar script. A dark, art-deco/carnival styled playfield in maroon, brass-gold, olive green and cream. The upper third is busy with a domed, mirror-backed topper-like panel showing a flame-like orange and gold swirl, a printed fan of playing-card faces and diamond-and-pip motifs, two large pale bone-white sculpted hands or arms reaching in from the upper left and upper right, and a brown checkerboard panel on the left. Below that, a broad arch of red-outlined lettering sits over a cluster of dark round drop targets. The centre of the field is dominated by a huge pale grey-pink oval/heart-shaped basin bordered by a cream frame, with a fan of red rays beneath it and a row of small circular lamps. Two chrome ball guides run symmetrically down the left and right edges, with wireform loops and a clear plastic saucer-like dome on the right. Two white flipper bats sit at the bottom on a green felt deck printed with starbursts in yellow, orange and black. Red lettering on the dark grey front panel below reads BIG ... OWSKI.

Painted pinball backglass, landscape format, framed by an ornate dark maroon and gold art-nouveau filigree border with a thin black keyline. Across the top, in huge cream/beige slab-serif capitals with a dark drop shadow, reads THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with a small TM at the upper right of the word. To the left of the title, a small white handwritten-style maker mark sits inside the top border. The background is a photographic bowling alley: receding wooden lanes, dark gutters, a set of dark red diamond-shaped lane markers and blue-and-white crown-like logos on the back wall, all in warm dim brown light. Six painted male figures are arranged in a row facing the viewer: at far left a slim youth in a purple shirt and grey trousers holding a white bowling ball; next a young man in a pale green bowling shirt cradling an orange-and-cream marbled ball; a stocky bearded man in an olive bandana and grey tee; centrally a tall long-haired man in black sunglasses, a cream-and-black patterned cardigan over a purple v-neck; beside him a figure with dark bobbed hair and pale face in a deep brown wrap coat; at far right an older grey-bearded man in a wide-brimmed cream cowboy hat and dark green shirt holding a martini glass. The bottom third is dominated by a huge glossy marbled red-and-cream bowling ball with black finger holes, flanked by two oversized cream pins with red neck stripes and a scattered white pin, all in a warm retro airbrushed illustrative style.