patrick swayzee & richard gere are getting all jiggy in this years poster series for the amsterdam gay & lesbain (pink film days) film festival, from those unbelievably productive and talented ‘terrible twins’ lernert & sander, repeating a concept can be a tough gig, but they’ve ‘done good’ if you ask me… nice work boys!
not only does he (very annoyingly) make the best smelling toasted sandwiches in the whole building during lunchtime… but my neighbour mister ‘frank dresmé’ a.k.a. 21bis has also updated his portfolio with lots of tasty recent projects, loving that ‘teeth grinder’ screen print poster series frank (shown at the top)
is an initiative by a group of local art students, which aims to fuel the debate around the recent draconian cuts to the arts & culture funding in the netherlands
their latest project involves the large official collective billboards which are used here during local and national elections, they are subject to strict rules and provide fixed space for all of the contending political parties to state their case, ‘slash art’ has opened a free-for-all competition inviting the general public to customise (or vandalise) them in their own way… nice, why not have a go? democracy is a privilege we need to cherish
come to think of it… i guess this is pretty much what i expected when i heard that the wonderful ‘chris ware’ had been commissioned to make a film poster, great and weird stuff… i bet that the marketing people and distributors hate it…
just popped round to visit ‘michiel schuurman’ and get hold of a copy of his fabulous poster series… many thanks, inspiring stuff