Framed Documents #010: Thank You For Smoking

Booze lobbyist Polly Bailey (Maria Bello) featured on the cover of an industry magazine in the rather good but not great Thank You For Smoking.

Exclusive!

CAPTAIN MORGAN puts down his sword

Plus:

Get your hands off my moonshine

And:

The Benefits of an enlarged liver

After the great attention to detail on the opening credits (all in the style of tobacco product packaging) I do wish someone had proofread the dummy publications a bit better.

CineMaths #003: Doomsday

Not sailing, but sinking

Vinyl on a junction box in Dean Lane pastiching Bristol Shitty Council’s logo. Check out Bristol Streetart too – Knautia’s found another, slightly different, design by the same person/people.

Law of the Wring: anti-graffiti attrition continues along the Avon

The Battle of Cumberland & Wapping Roads continues…

I’m not sure how long these anti-graffiti signs have been up – I’ve been past every day since Tuesday, and only noticed them today, as there were some workmen doing what looked like grouting – but already all of them that I could see have been artistically deconstructed

The Di$neyland Memorial Orgy

While reading up on Wally Wood and his involvement in the Warren Publishing comic lines (Creepy, Eerie etc) – via Russ Jones’s very interesting memoir of it – I came across a poster he did for Paul Krassner’s magazine The Realist, entitled ‘The Disneyland Memorial Orgy‘.

Originally a black and white panorama, it was commissioned by Krassner shortly after Walt Disney’s death in the winter of 1967:

This was a few years after Time’s famous “God Is Dead” cover, and it occurred to me that Disney was indeed God to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy — the whole crowd — he had been their creator and had repressed their baser instincts, but now they could shed all their inhibitions and participate in a magnificent mass binge.

Notes Wikipedia:

Only about a third of the 64 Disney characters depicted are actively involved in sexual intercourse or are on the point of undertaking it. Most are just observing the others. A few of the characters are occupied with other activities. A dazed Mickey Mouse, to the left in the bottom area, is plunging a syringe in his arm, while the paraphernalia of drug addicts lies at his feet. Next to him, an evil looking and grinning Pluto is urinating on a large painting of the eager face of Mickey. One of the small rabbits from Bambi is probably engaged in the sin of gluttony, featured licking an ice cream cone. In the upper left, Dumbo the flying elephant has just defecated on Donald Duck while in flight.

The wide activity of the scene and the panoramic view resembles the satires of William Hogarth or medieval depictions from such masters such as Hieronymus Bosch. The upper left portion is decorated with a few allusions to the lucrative nature of Walt Disney enterprises.

CineMaths #002: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin (The Hidden Fortress)

Star Wars – Flash Gordon = Kakushi Toride No San Akunin

Grrrr… Flickrd off

As I have noted in the comments for my post about finishing the film poster project, for some reason some of the Flickr albums I uploaded posters to aren’t working.

The only ones affected (at the moment) are:

• [ H1 ] [DEAD LINK - see below for new URL]
• [ M1 ]
• [ N1 ]
• [ O1 ]

When I get the chance I will hunt down my back up DVD and reupload the missing pics.

Sorry about that, I dunno why it’s happened, any ideas gratefully received

*** EDIT ***

I’ve now made a start on the reuploading…

• [ H1 ]

The pulp is catholic

I have been wading through my bookmarks, trying (and failing) to tidy things up, or at least trim it all down to a number that I can upload them to an online manager to keep things synchronised, and in the course of it came across a handful devoted to pulp paperbacks, the yellow press and all novels cheap and sensationalist…

Some wonderful covers on these sites, and some even talk about the text, too

A fine reminder of days past, when I would wade through the rents’ pulp mountain, basing my literary choices purely on gaudily sensational covers and breathlessly exclaimed taglines, something which would generally reward the reader with a full-throttle, plot-driven rattle through adverb abuse and 2D characterisation. Which I would argue is a bloody good thing in a novel, especially if you want something to read on the crapper.

Ahhh, the halcyon days of NEL and Coronet and all the rest…

BookScans
Naughty Novels
Trash Fiction
Vintage Paperbacks

Hat tip: Vinny

CineMaths #001: Blow Out

Blow-Up + The Conversation = Blow Out

Movie poster Flickr project – finished at last!

Well, I say finished… All the posters are uploaded to Flickr accounts now – but I do need to go back and tag & title them all better, and make some ‘best of’ selections etc.

But basically it’s all done!

Bristle’s Film Poster albums:

[ A ] :: [ B1 ] :: [ B2 ] :: [ C1 ] :: [ C2 ] :: [ D1 ] :: [ D2 ] :: [ E1 ] :: [ F1 ] :: [ G1 ] :: [ H1 ] :: [ I1 ] :: [ J1 ] :: [ K1 ] :: [ L1 ] :: [ M1 ] :: [ N1 ] :: [ O1 ] :: [ P1 ] :: [ Q1 ] :: [ R1 ] :: [ S1 ] :: [ S1 ] :: [ T1 ] :: [ U1 ] :: [ V1 ] :: [ W1 ] :: [ X1 ] :: [ Y1 ] :: [ Z1 ] :: [ #1 ]

Poster project nearing completion…

I am slowly getting there with the whole film poster Flickr album thing – I’ve now done A-R, should all be done by tomorrow. Although having said that, I’m going to have to go back and sort out all the titles and tags, it’s just that I worked up a nice little head of steam thanks to jUploadr, a handy little cross-platform tool to upload multiple pics to the likes of Flickr really simply…

Anyway, those links so far:

Bristle’s Film Poster albums:

[ A ] :: [ B1 ] :: [ B2 ] :: [ C1 ] :: [ C2 ] :: [ D1 ] :: [ D2 ] :: [ E1 ] :: [ F1 ] :: [ G1 ] :: [ H1 ] :: [ I1 ] :: [ J1 ] :: [ K1 ] :: [ L1 ] :: [ M1 ] :: [ N1 ] :: [ O1 ] :: [ P1 ] :: [ Q1 ] :: [ R1 ]

Attack Of The 3000 Movie Posters

I’m in the process of uploading all the posters contained in the marvellous torrented folder 2923 Horror, Cult, Sleaze, Trash Posters By KinkyQueen… I reckon it’s going to use up around 30 Flickr accounts

But anyway, for anyone that doesn’t want to DL the whole shebang (it’s only around 350Mb), I’ll post up links to each of the albums as I finish them, and also add to them with stuff that’s not already there.

Oh, and it’ll be alphabetical, so unsurprisingly the first one is films beginning with the letter ‘A’

Bristle’s Film Posters [ A1 ]
Bristle’s Film Posters [ B1 ]
Bristle’s Film Posters [ B2 ]
Bristle’s Film Posters [ C1 ]
Bristle’s Film Posters [ C2 ]
Bristle’s Film Posters [ D1 ]
Bristle’s Film Posters [ D2 ]

Indiscriminate cover charges

Want to look at crappy bootleg DVD covers? Then check out the Crappy Bootleg DVD Cover Flicker Group – it will go a long way towards satisfying your needs. Perhaps.

Bash The Rich!

The 80s revival carries on into anarcho rampages across London!

Bash The Rich website
Ian Bone’s blog