Frank Ocean at The Regency Poster
Frank Ocean at The Regency, July 16, 2012
Firehouse-Goldenvoice No. 158
9.25 x 30
Offset Poster (door give-away)
Artist Edition of 100
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
“Occupy Bay Area” on KQED 9, “This Week In Northern California”
“Bafantu Slaves” • Tears Valley Rock’n’roll Festival 2012
On June 2 and 3, I was in Pisa for the Italian Poster Rock Art Festival; On Sunday, June 3, my friend Giampo Copparoni and I woke up early to meet Cesare Cantalupo and his motorcycle gang, the Tears Valley Motorcycle Club of Montecatini Terme, Toscana. I’ve know Giampo and Cesare for about a dozen years. These two guys rock, and the plans they put together never cease to amaze me.
Well, this beautiful, sunny Sunday morning, Giampo and Cesare were inviting me to hang out while they made a movie. Giampo, his girlfriend Betti, a cool friend of their’s who drove and I climbed up the beautiful Coline di Leonardo in a fast car. No matter that this hill was Leonardo da Vinci’s playground as a child, and probably supplied the background setting for painting such as the Mona Lisa. Forget all that, we were making a biker movie, “Bafantu Slaves.” What a frickin’ gas maaaaaan!
On the top of the hill was a medieval castle, and we were met by Italian film director Alessandro Mariani, his photographer friend, Ilaria Sancho Panogi, and my friend Cesare’s motorcycle gang. Giampo donned his biker, beatnik super-hero costume, becoming the mysterious “Bafantu” right before my very eyes! And my friends in Cesare’s gang slapped on their psychedelic, biker helmets, and we all had a million laughs making this trailer for a “crazed Roger Corman movie that sadly got lost in a drug raid,” according to Flicks That Never Happened by Hunter S. Thompson, “when Mario Bava came to the West Hollywood hills to party with Peter Fonda in 1971.”
Maybe the more clever rockers among you have figured out that this is an announcement for a rock and roll weekender in Montecatini. Man oh man, if I could go! Rock on Bafantu and rock on Bafantu Slaves!
TEARS ROCK’N’ROLL FESTIVAL
ROCCA NUOVA DI SERRAVALLE PISTOIESE
28 JULY 2012
(DALLE 17.00 ALL NIGHT LONG!)
WITH
LOS DRAGOS
KILLER PENIS
GOLDEN SHOWERS
THE HOMEBREAKERS
BONGLEY DEAD
Pearl Jam Oslo, Norway, by Chuck Sperry & Chris Shaw
Pearl Jam, Oslo, Norway, 2012
Chuck Sperry VS. Chris Shaw
22 x 33
Artist Edition of 200
5 colors on archival cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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I teamed up with Chris Shaw to make Pearl Jam’s Oslo poster. Both Chris and I have made Pearl Jam posters in the mid-1990’s. So Oslo’s Pearl Jam poster is a mix of New School and Old School Rock Poster Art.
Since the theme of the PJ tour posters is VS, we immediately thought of a Ying-Yang form as a good way to communicate that idea.
Then we thought of that crazy “Norway Spiral” that filled the night sky over Norway a couple years back (because we both love unexplained and mysterious phenomena like that, even if it was probably a Russian rocket spinning out of control).
We gave it a psychedelic edge by making a Ying-Yang out of the form of the Norway Spiral, and creating two flying eyeballs, representing the opposing forces of Fire and Water. We wanted this poster to have a touch of skater punk, Psychedelia, and to just be iconic and bad-ass.
The small, subtle, silver spirals in the background, not only mirrors the Ying-Yang of the central image, but is inspired by Rosemalling, which is a Norwegian folk-art of decorative painting. This form of decoration originated in the rural valleys of Norway during the Baroque and Rococo Period in the mid 18th Century. It was a folk response to the intricate designs the wealthy folks in Norway were importing. The forms are usually simple and based on “C” and “S” forms. That seemed appropriate since Chris Shaw and Chuck Sperry are both “CS” names.
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