“Michal Bartlomowicz is a design, typography and illustration specialist from Katowice, Poland and we recently stumbled upon his awesome black-and-white hand-made collages. He uses paper cut-outs and some other prepared materials along with a Xerox machine to create these celestial scenes that are slightly abstract and intriguing cool…” (via definitivetouch)
Okay, so as it stands, we have the go-ahead to host a screening of Eileen Yaghoobian’s movie, Died Young Stayed Pretty. This is going to be in the sculpture court in November if all goes to plan, hopefully in week 8 of our timetable. The only other available screening of this film in the UK is going to be at the ICA in London for the remainder of October. So this is exciting stuff.
The Next Poster Brief
The second of our 2 week poster briefs, is to create your very own Poster for this movie, to be used in promoting our upcoming event. Eileen Yaghoobian herself is very excited we’re planning on doing our own posters, and has asked me to mail some out to her in Canada once we have them. ( I know right??? )
So these peöple need to be thinking about the posters they’re going to make. Because we havent finalised everything at this stage, just start brainstorming and planning, and look out for the next post highlighting all the details required on the poster ( Date, Time, Venue Etc. )
Have a look at the Died Young Stayed Pretty website and check out some of the posters done by Ron Liberti and Keith Herzik.
Details
Norotomo Productions Incorporated and these peöple present:
Died Young Stayed Pretty
A Movie About Rock Posters
A Film by Eileen Yaghoobian
Produced, Directed, Shot and Edited by Eileen Yaghoobian
Original Music by Mark Greenberg
Visual Effects by Pete Dionne
www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com
UK Distributor ICA London
Canada Council for the Arts
Poster by the one and only Ron Liberti
Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they’re not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.
“DIY artists of every stripe, this is your movie”
— JOHN GRIFFIN, THE GAZETTE
“They pickup the pieces of America’s disposable culture and turn them into beautiful obscenities”
seriously wow, i have to see this movie, I’ve been going back to the trailer every now and then for months just sweating, i keep getting invites to the premieres on facebook ( find the group! ) but they’re all across the states right now.
-Joe
