May 25, 2005
Gallery of hand-painted Bollywood posters
categorized by era and genre:
(more art inside...)
Continuing our art tour, see The First Annual 'Art of Science' Exhibition from Princeton:
(image shows "Dynamic Asset Allocation in Freight Transportation.") Next, turn the monitor away from your co-workers to review the entries in the NSFW-in-the-aggregate Corporate Logos that look like Dicks contest. Finally, enjoy the disturbing free-form verse and striking sketches within OSHA's FatalFacts multimedia installation. Two favorites: the forcefully brief "No. 63: There is No Number 63," and the daringly Marxist "Struck By/Caught Between:"
Two laborers and a fork lift driver
were staking 40-foot-long I-beams
in preparation for for
structural
steel
erection.One laborer
was placing a 2 X 4 inch wooden spacer
on the last I-beam on the stack.The fork lift driver
drove up to the stack
with another I-beam that was not
secured
or blocked
on the fork lift tines.The I-beam fell from the tines,
pining the laborer
between the fallen I beam
and the stack of beams.
Notice the clever, subtle wordplay -- the repetition of the word "for" in line 4, and the shocking introduction of the word 'pining' in the last stanza. The 'I' beam is pining, sorrowful for entrapping the laborer, just as 'I', the author and the reader, must be 'Struck By' our responsibility for the oppression and lack of social mobility that entrap the laboring class. Laborers are 'Caught Between' their dreams and our beams. (Fun po-mo game thanks to WFMU; posters thanks to Cynical-C)
I didn't realize that Staplerfahrer Klaus was so lyrical and beautiful.
I found that bolly/lolly poster site before and got really excited about it. Then I looked at the sizes of the reprints and my excitement cooled but it still gives some great ideas for prints to look for. I'm still kicking myself for waking up too late on saturday to bid on this auction for a Don poster, but perhaps it is all moot as I have asked soku to have her sister bring me some posters back from her trip to India.
Do you like the webdesign of the Art in Science competition? It's by Jonathan Harris of Wordcount and 10x10 fame. (BTW, for best enjoyment of 10x10 click 'history' and browse by full months...)
Amazing retro-futuristic posters for Wall-E, X-Men, classic Indiana Jones -- see also this interview with the artist
Cute. He has the X-Men in their original 1960s costumes. Note the Beast who isn't turned into a blue furry creature yet. And the fucking badass Sentinel shadows in the background.
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BTW, Nate, if you don't find a way to get that 'Don' poster in your redecoration campaign, well... I guess I don't know you at all.
posted by mrflip at 01:46PM CST on May 25