Awesome Afroman Concert Poster

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Promoting The Porno: Adult Movie Posters of the 60’s & 70’s

The above poster for Wall Street Walker is one of an awesome collection of porno flick posters compiled in X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters of the 60’s & 70’s, by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh, curators at the Rare Poster Gallery in London.

As you can imagine, porno got a very limited theatrical run in 60/70, while those participating picture houses willing to take the risk of showing stag movies were less inclined to shamelessly promote the fact with a brash poster that would have passing grannies whipped in to a furore.

So it’s not surprising that the few posters that did make it off the printing press have become collector items.  Although the above book is now Sold Out, you could probably track it down on eBay if you were that way inclined. But for peek at some of the content, head over to www.xratedcollection.com and feast on the exquisite selection of posters for titles like Girls That Do, Divorcee, Debbie Does Dallas and Spread Eagles.

Rare Concert Poster Collection

This kickass The Who poster is just one of a phenomenal collection of old concert posters that you can view on this Flicker gallery. Check out tons of posters from the famous Filmore East in San Francisco, from the city's hippie hayday; concerts promoted by The Hells Angels and shows by Eric Burdon, MC5, The Doors, John Mayall, James Brown and more.

Revolution Art: Solidarity in Posters

Revolution needs art, art needs revolution. The fire in the soul of the oppressed will push them to create slogans and guerrilla art that will threaten the state, challenge the status quo and call the people to arms. Its message and the sheer vitriol of which that message is daubed is what makes it potent beyond the guided propaganda of the state.

When the Polish socialist Solidarity movement, led by the Papal backed Lech Wałęsa and born of a trade union at the Gdańsk Shipyard in 1980, broke the iron grip of communist Soviet rule over the country, it did so with a striking and defiant emblem. The graffiti like, thick blood red scrawl of the party’s name was as dangerous to the state as the message behind it. If you want to topple the state, then you’d better have a flag the people can get behind.

The Polish people got behind Solidarity, and the quake that the movement caused shook the communist eastern bloc from its foundations. Here’s some of the fantastic posters produced by the brass hands of the Solidarity Party.

The Logo: Jezy Janiszewski’s Solidarity Poland

Budecki: Count on Me: 1981

Karol Sliwka’s Independent Labour Union of Individual Farmers, Solidarity: 1981

M Wieckowski’s 1918-1981 Independence: 1981

M Wieckowski’s Solidarity: 10 Million Members: 1981

Marek Lewandowski’s May 1^st Holiday of Workers: Solidarity 1981

Solidarity: Food Rationing System Collapses

Unidentified Solidarity Poster

Tomasz Sarnecki: High Noon, July 4^th Elections: 1989

Solidarity: Vote With Us: 1989

Vote for Solidarity & Lech Walesa: Election Campaign of Solidarity Citizenship Committee