Super-saturated yellow means “big independent film.”
Back to back: tough-love relationship ahead.
The only dress colour for romantic comedies? Red.
Running down a blue street? Thriller.
An enormous, looming eye can only mean horror.
View between the legs? Likely includes sex scenes and/or a hot female actress.
Hollywood, California
Christophe Courtois has compiled quite a collection of movie posters and put them together according to genre—here you can see what he tried to show at-a-glance. His point is that Hollywood movie posters have basically fallen into a number of design clichés of late, a change from the originality that posters exhibited, say, 50 years back. You can see more of his comparisons here.
Thanks to colleague Gary Ludwig for the link.
(source: thoughtballoonhelium.blogspot.com)
This lovely comic strip is the product of Grant Snider’s former life as an engineering student and math tutor… thanks to friend Jeope Wolfe for the introduction!
Lots more here.
All of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names…
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“Gather ’round the Yule-log fire while we spin the fantastic fable of the man who hates the holiday the whole world loves—and seeks to stop its celebration by striking at Santa himself! He is greedy Jasper Rasper—but he reckons without the Man of Tomorrow, who guarantees that there will always be a Christmas despite… The Man Who Hated Christmas.”
Read the whole comic book online, here.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Animalia Exstinta is a fascinating imaginary bestiary featuring beautiful surrealist collages by Hugo Horita and humorous descriptive texts by Esteban Seimandi. This elegant volume was designed by Juan Cruz Bazterrica, and published by the Argentinian Ediciones Tres en línea in 2010.”
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(the quote is by Rabindranath Tagore; the cartoon is by Ian Baker)
London, UK
I’m happy to see that Banksy is still active… around the globe.
Wolfsburg, Germany
The Volkswagen Type 2, officially known as the Transporter or Kombi (short for Kombinationskraftwagen) and informally as the Bus (US), Camper (UK), Bulli, Kleinbus, microbus, minibus, and sometimes even hippie van, was a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second model, following and initially deriving from VW’s first model, the Type 1 (Beetle).
Some 61 years after its introduction, the Type 2 is still to be seen everywhere (and is still manufactured in Brazil, where last month the 1.5-millionth unit rolled out of the factory). Perhaps it’s because I have many friends with them and that I myself have owned a few (including Bettie Blue, a Type 3 now safely tucked away for the winter) that I seem to encounter these perpetually iconic charmers everywhere I look (both on the roads and throughout popular culture)… thanks to climber friend Gerald Brandt for some of the links/sources of the images shown above (click on images for links to articles and more images).
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Davis, California
On November 18th, 2011, a group of students at the University of California Davis gathered on campus for an Occupy protest, during which they formed a human chain by linking their arms together. When they refused to comply with the police request to leave, UC Davis Police officer Lieutenant John Pike and another officer walked along administering orange pepper spray straight down on the line of unmoving students.
What Lt. John Pike did not take into account, is how rapidly memes are now born and spread on our interconnected planet… in the days following, hundreds of “photoshopped” images were shared online, many of them placing Lieutenant Pike into various historical events and milestones in civil rights, ranging from the signing of the U.S. constitution to Picasso’s famous anti-war painting Guernica. It will be interesting to see how far this meme travels from here…
View a video of the incident and reports on the meme’s mutation here. View a hilarious “meme’s meme” showing Hitler’s reaction to the viral rise of ‘Pepper Spray Cop’ here. And for others who are inclined to follow in Lt. Pike’s heavy-handed, now-infamous footsteps, “you’ve been warned.”
