NPF: A VISUAL FEAST
I have no logical way to connect these things by way of an introduction, but this has been a banner week for discovering aesthetically pleasing things that you should waste your Friday afternoon perusing at work. Click any image to embiggen:
1. Graphic artist Mike Joyce has put together a gallery of dozens of old rock & punk show flyers re-done in the International Modernist style. It works eerily well for reasons I can't pinpoint.
As an added bonus, maybe some of you old bastards actually went to one of these shows.
2. For the comic book nerd dwelling deep inside of you (or perhaps right on the surface) here is Marko Manev's gallery of "minimalist designs" for superheroes.
Something tells me that if they actually existed and needed to advertise, this is how they'd do it.
3. Photographer and artist Lilly McElroy has a series entitled "I Throw Myself At Men" wherein she would find men through Craigslist, meet them in some public place, and proceed to literally throw herself at them (while what I assume is a colleague of hers took photos in mid-throw). The reactions of her unsuspecting (victims? dates?) are priceless.
4. You've probably seen this one already; NASA released a 21st Century version of its famous Apollo 17 "Blue Marble" photo courtesy the Suomi (Finland?) satellite. The original resolution (8000 x 8000!) makes it the most detailed picture of the entire planet ever taken. That's stretching the truth, though, since this is actually a composite image that, as is the case with so much photography of natural phenomena, is probably "enhanced" and Photoshopped in a dozen different ways. Still, this is pretty amazing. Zoom in on a few different spots to get the full effect. The amazing level of detail reminds me of my favorite Earth-from-above photo, of Sicily's Mt. Etna volcano erupting in 1999.
January 27th, 2012 at 1:30 am
In this vein, have some (very well done) movie posters of retro remakes of modern films: http://www.behance.net/gallery/What-if-Movies-reimagined-for-another-time-place/2783319
January 27th, 2012 at 8:01 am
That last link doesn't work, Ed.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:32 am
Second link seems to be broken.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:34 am
Correction (c u n d gulag got it right): FINAL link seems to be broken. The Mount Etna one.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Suomi's not named after Finland, it's named after a prof from UW-Madison. Geez, Ed.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:41 am
My favorite poster when I was younger (ok, outside of the Farrah one), was a black-and white shot of a young Pete Townshend windmilling his arm on his Rickenbacker guitar.
Hey, look – it's still available!!!
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=bJU&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=931&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=YNbGeZUgDEY-yM:&imgrefurl=http://www.cakitches.com/general/pete-townshend-poster.html&docid=0E0qBbqcSq4LeM&itg=1&imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WOGf6Z-X8Wk/Se08X-rjHdI/AAAAAAAAEik/bhN_ZafgF8I/s400/poster_maxrb.jpg&w=256&h=376&ei=GMUiT_a7EefV0QHpt6mDCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=306&vpy=200&dur=271&hovh=272&hovw=185&tx=109&ty=113&sig=111609380702725419772&page=1&tbnh=165&tbnw=112&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0
Holy shit!
That's the longest link I've ever seen!
I'll submit my comment and check it out.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:42 am
Yup – it works.
The poster's nothing fancy. I'm just an ancient Who-fanatic.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
@FMguru
Oh wow, I like those movie posters.
January 27th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
@ c u n d gulag
Farrah and The Who! It's like the 1970's all over again. That sure brings me back!!!!
January 27th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
That Lily McElroy stole one of my ideas for her project of doing an unexpected thing in an public place. I have always wanted to do that. Of course, some might say I do that every day when I ride my bike to and from work.
January 27th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Sluggo,
Good time… good time… :-)
January 29th, 2012 at 12:43 am
Love all of these! The minimalist superhero posters are especially choice, IMO.
Have you seen "I can read movies?" http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacesick/sets/72157614482499746/
January 30th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
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January 31st, 2012 at 4:49 pm
The Hulk one is incredible.
February 1st, 2012 at 7:08 am
Very good article. Awesome.