Couldn’t pass this one up, from part two of the Well Medicated poster gallery.
Vicious Lips (1987): Beneath a blood-red moon, the dream, electric. The planet, futuristic. The nightmare, animalistic.
Still a bit unsure what it’s actually about?
A band finally gets the opportunity for that breakthrough gig if they can make it to an “in” club on another planet in time…
The double (and triple) duty the limited cast had to pull on this one is quite admirable:
- Mary-Anne Graves: Maxine Mortogo / Ghoul No. 2
- Eric Bartsch: Cecil Peabody Peeper No. 2 / Pilot / Ghoul No. 1
- Don Barnhart Jr.: Brock Christian / Alien Pervert / Co-Pilot
- Jacki Easton Toelle: Desert Siren No. 1 / Alien Hocker / Parking Attandant
Archival giclee print from Snowblinded.
Poster by Dale Flattum of Steel Pole Bathtub.
Ray Fenwick’s Illustrated Guide to a Life of Mystery.
Tiny Showcase Presents the first in a new series of mildly factual, mostly fictitious, educational posters.
Great poster for an Alamo Drafthouse screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing by Tyler Stout.
Reprint of a poster by Knoll, now available for pre-order at Blanka.
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Arresting poster for Michael Haneke’s English shot-for-shot remake of (his own) Funny Games.
The trailer is up on Apple’s site now as well.
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has what looks to be an excellent exhibition of broadsides from the collection of Ricky Jay ending this week.
Mr. Jay calls them “Thai menus of their day.”
Note that many of these were featured in his wonderfully titled book, Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians.
There was a short article and accompanying online multimedia mini-gallery promoting the show last week in the Times, and Ricky Jay’s website has an interview (warning: PDF).
These are handbills, mostly, not posters: single sheets, usually printed on a letter press with lots of hyperbolic language, not much color and only sometimes a crude illustration, rarely fine ones. They trumpet horses that jump through hoops, armless dulcimer players, German strongwomen who lift anvils with their hair, contortionists, fire-eaters, magicians and pig-faced ladies.
Pictured above is the Gouffe, “The Man-Monkey”, from 1828. The Olympians of the Sawdust Circle has this to say about Mons. Gouffe:
Englishman whose real name was Goff. On English bills as early as 1825. Specialty was donning a monkey suit and performing various stunts in the ring, including riding a horse. Made American debut in Boston in 1831; strong man, Brown’s, 1834; monkeyman, J. D. Palmer’s, 1835; monkey-man, Sweet & Hough’s, 1835; Oscar Stone’s, Albany, 1836
Harmen Liemburg’s illustration for an article in a magazine you won’t find over here is a collage of engravings by Cornelis Huijberts, Josef Mulder and
Jan Wandelaar in the books of Dutch botanist and anatomist Frederik Ruysch[1]. Perhaps O’Reilly can commision him to do some covers for a dark surrealist series of programming books?
I also really like his poster for the 2005 International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont, which combines various elements of the exhibited prints with new work.
[1]: Be sure to check out Wandelaar’s work. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani features some bizarre backgrounds accompanying the anatomical sketches. One of the more famous is Human Skeleton with Young Rhinoceros. While looking for a quality version of that engraving I came across a post by Glyins Ridley discussing how that very image was the origin of her book Clara’s Grand Tour. Yes, the rhino in that engraving was named Clara, and she was on display across Europe from 1741 to 1758.
Nice posters by Accept & Proceed here which make nice eye candy out of possibly mundane statistics.
Nice posters, though fairly expensive- for sale here.
Similar to the recent Dead Machines/Damon Romero/John Wiese LP seen here.
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