Filed under: Film, Politics + Current Affairs | Tags: Circus, Design, Graphic Design, Movie Posters, Poland, Polish Art, Sport
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Endlessly searchable, full of bizarre and terrific imagery, always a surprise. Movie posters, political posters, circus posters, sports posters. Always more!
Filed under: Books, Film | Tags: Africa, Germany, Graphic Design, Henning Wagenbreth, Nigeria, Scam Emails, Spam, Woodcuts
The book: Cry for Help, 36 Scam Emails from Africa. By German illustrator Henning Wagenbreth. And in technicolor woodcuts!
Filed under: Film | Tags: Alessandro Nivola, Amy Adams, Ben McKenzie, Celia Weston, Junebug, Meercats, Outsider Art, Phil Morrison, Suburbs
A warm, delightful clash of cultures in suburban North Carolina, with a steady pace, a perfect cast, and a mix of awkward, loving and devastating scenes that make it watchable over + over again.
Filed under: Film, Politics + Current Affairs | Tags: accordion, Braddock, crashdance, jumpin jack flash, larry evans, millhunk herald, Pittsburgh, steel, steve pellegrino, tony buba, tony novosel, unions
As steel + industry collapsed in the Pittsburgh area during the 1980s, a group of young union organizers, steelworkers, soccer players, artists, writers, and assorted others came together to form The Millhunk Herald. It was a publication that concerned the life of workers and travelled all over the world, including across the Iron Curtain and into royal palaces.
Along with the publication came a whole series of events, the Millhunk Funk, the Millhunk Defunkt, and some excellent performance-art-music-videos. Two have been made available online, taken from a video documentary about the Millhunk Herald Days.
First, ‘Flashdance’ meets the real Pittsburgh of 1983, complete with a steelworker (Tony Novosel) realizing his exotic dancing dream atop a bar.
Then, accordionist Steve Pellegrino leads a barful of Pittsburghers, and a marching band, through the town of Braddock to an uncorked Jumpin Jack Flash.