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| casualco.com | The Casual Connoisseur 'Arthouse' |
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| move mouse over for more images - clockwise from left to right:- Happy Mondays Bummed, Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica, Velvet Underground Andy Warhol, Johnny Cash Folsom Prison, David Bowie Low, Mothers of invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Aphex Twin Come to Daddy, Beatles Abbey Road, The Clash London Calling, Roxy Music Country Life, Joy Division Uknown Pleasures, The The Soul Mining, Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia, Scorpions Lovedrive, Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request, Madness One Step Beyond, Led Zeppelin Houses of The Holy, Chemical Brothers Push the Button, Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
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| A look at some of the coolest film posters ever produced, from the 60's to the present day, as you'll see quirky artwork and clever photography is what we like and it never goes out of style either. Be it striking sixties artwork from 1962's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Point Blank from 1967, to controversial 1970's Britain with Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange. Eye catching simplicity such as An American Werewolf in London and The Godfather, to out and out pain stakingly life like portraits like Indania Jones, Taxi Driver and guilty pleasures of the 80's Vacation and Police Academy. Plus some great European takes - High Plains Drifter and hard hitting French movie Irreversible 2002. Mouse over for more images and bigger versions. |
| We did a collaboration with Cult Classic Prints - makers of fine Canvas Prints. With their co-operation we created three brand new pieces of artwork to release as highly limited edition prints. Please note the prints are now all sold out. |
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| Old, new, modernist, guerilla, to shock, to please, controversial, commercial! Propaganda, used as a voice, used to silence or as a call. ' Art' takes many different forms. Art is the biggest tool in advertising or promoting something from every side of the fence, an illustration, graphic or even a piece of text is used to get a point across. Here we appreciate all forms and attempt to pay a nod and a wink to a selection of people we feel are doing it well. |
| From WIWP 'NOW SHOWING' - A collection from a bunch of creative artists of a re-imagining of film posters. The Lost Art of the Film Poster. Featuring their takes of classics and lesser known gems. Recently updated with new additions. A great collection that hopefully will continue to grown and be an ongoing, growing collection. To the right is a slideshow of a selection of the works including new entry's for The Man With Two Brains and Midnight Cowboy BELOW - Our own 'quick take' on some classics Dead Mans Shoes, Meantime, The Firm and Get Carter Dead Mans Shoes is rather self explanatory, going with a simple image. The Firm is inspired by a certain cult 'Good Cop' film from the 70s, while we did our own take on Mike Leigh's classic bleak tale Meantime, Ken Loach classic KES, Rita Sue and Bob too and everyone's fave 'kids' film The Goonies, featuring the Oregan (Astoria) coastline as seen in the film. |
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| Anthony Thornton, who has co-designed our Nymph tee and did the exclusive artwork for our Pack tee... under his 'RetroSkull-Duggery' art moniker has an interesting and unique style of his own. Here we present a few pieces.. MOUSE OVER EACH IMAGE TO SEE MORE. |
| The Art of the title sequence takes an in depth look at the opening 'credits' to movies. From graphics and illustrations and how on a fair number of occasions - what follows at times fails to live up to the 'opening sequence'. |
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| Rather than a generic studio photo of Tom Cruise or Seth Rogen with forced, ironic Hollywood smiles like you'd see on a monthly copy of Empire. The likes of Little White Lies do their own thing, with cool, quirky unique covers, backed up by a decent read too with top notch content, a breath of fresh air and in keeping with the whole ethos of art in film and the film poster as an art form itself. Nearly a decade ago, I bought the then brand new and now what is sadly defunct HOTDOG magazine, I ended up with every issue which I still have. Their first issue had the Taxi Driver poster as a cover, how cool is that? it leaped out of the shelf in Smiths, stick your boring run of the mill magazines with your airbrushed a-listers.They weren't for me, this was. {continues} |
| After 83 months of reading the best film magazine, I guess not enough people shared my feelings and they weren't buying it, as a result it came to an untimely and abrupt end without any warning when the final curtain was pulled in Christmas 2006. Luckily a few months earlier a new magazine had arrived. Little White Lies was very similar, even better! This time a fantastic sketch of Bill Murray as Steve Zissou was winking out on the shelves of borders. I'd not heard about it but there it was. The power of ARTWORK on the cover alone made me need to purchase it. Something they've stuck with too, with a range of excellent covers, highlights being the This is England and Let The Right One in ones for me, but all are great. I hope they do stick with it! It sets them apart from the others, it's like a rebel, non-conformist and inside, the content doesn't let you down either. It's definitely the best film magazine out there. Long may it continue! Lets hope more and more people read it, it deserves it. |
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| Browsing Flickr recently we stumbled across these cracking photo's of Manchester at night. 'Round Our Way' is a great set of some familar locations caught with great panache. |
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| Buy re-productions from KEEP CALM GALLERY |
| The posters of the Paris 1968 uprising comprise some of the most brilliant graphic works ever to have been associated with a social movement. Politics aside, from a design standpoint they are second to none. The artworks were not superfluous decorations meant to beautify office walls -instead they took center stage on the streets in provoking awareness and action. Amazingly enough, the posters were all anonymous creations, the result of collaborations between idealistic students and striking workers. To this day not a single artist has been credited for the provocative artworks. |
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| NOT a movie poster shows the posters that the suits decided NOT to choose and (cliche or not) they are often better than the official chosen ones. Enjoy viewing posters that until now you'd never be able to. |
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| Kirk Demarais' crazy Family Portraits. Featuring The Griswold's, the Torrences and Navin Johnson's adopted family! |
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| For less than the price of a pint you can purchase some snazzy casualco art - comes proffesionally made on high quality 200 gsm card. Comes with envelope so you can send them to someone you like's birthday or special occasion or frame and mount them up yourself. Exceptional Quality as seen below. Click here to go to our page and view or buy cards, film, music, cult, casual. Please Note - if ordering for a specific date, please allow up to 14 days for delivery. |
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