Gig Posters

A gig poster is an advertisement for a live musical performance.

BLUE COLLAR DISTRO
Spoon__My Associate Cornelius__$10

The Kills__My Associate Cornelius__$10

Junior Boys__Lonny Hurley__$20


Gig Posters Vol.1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century__$40

THIS is the first ever Gig Posters book, featuring over 700 examples and 101 ready to frame posters (each 11" x 14" page is perforated and removable). In addition to pieces from My Associate Cornelius, this book includes work from Aesthetic Apparatus, Burlesque of North American, The Decoder Ring Design Concern, Lonny Hurley, Invisible Creature, and 95 other artists.

D.KING GALLERY
All posters are originals in near mint or better condition unless otherwise indicated.
Jimi Hendrix Experience__Griffin and Moscoso__$1,500

Air__Emek__$150

WITH a nod to the psychedelic and an eye for the socially absurd Emek has become one of the most coveted artists of the modern era. His talent of appealing to both old and new collectors has made his posters an almost guaranteed investment opportunity.

High on Fire__Emek__$125

The White Stripes__Emek__$400

POSTER CABARET
Over the past few years, Poster Cabaret has earned a reputation for offering the best gig posters made today. [...]

Murder by Death__The Cricket Press__$20

Margot & The Nuclear So & So's__Delicious Design__$25

Arctic Monkeys__Jesse Phillips__$25 (sold out)

Yo La Tengo__Guy Burwell__$25

Flight of the Conchords__Doublenaut__$20

Bad Brains__Justin Hampton__$30

The Distillers__Emek__$75

GIGPOSTERS.COM
GigPosters.com was created and is maintained by Clay Hayes who resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The website launched in January, 2001. Showcasing the worlds largest historical gig poster archive, this massive online art gallery is home to thousands of designers from around the world. Visitors can browse and comment on gig posters, join the large community in the forums, chat, and purchase posters in the classified ads section.
Subversive Users et. al.__Bartek Felczak

Blue Meridian et. al.__Pat Fatica

Erykah Badu__Emek

Shaky Hands et. al.__Jaclyn Campanaro

Electric Six__Lonny Hurley

Vaqueros Paganos__Diego Pagani

The Spino Band__$20__seller: strawberryluna
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EMEK
Emek (born Emek Golan in Israel in 1970) is a popular artist/graphic designer/illustrator who has designed concert posters since the early 1990s. He is widely credited with helping to revive the rock poster scene. [...]

EMEK has been referred to as "The Thinking Man's Poster Artist". Coming from a unique family of 5 artists, Emek has made his mark creating special limited edition silkscreen posters for live concerts around the world. Emek’s style thrives on attention to detail, coupled with layers of meaning in the artwork. His infusion of socio-political commentary into pop culture imagery has made his work instantly recognizable in the field. Emphasizing craftsmanship, his work is mostly hand-drawn in the tradition of the classic psychedelic posters from the 1960's. Born in the 70's Emek was also strongly influenced by the DIY punk flyers of the 80’s. Over the last 2 decades, Emek has created hundreds of posters for some of the top alternative bands and events, like Radiohead, Coachella, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, System of a Down, Jane's Addiction, The Flaming Lips, to name a few, as well as album covers from Neil Young and Pearl Jam to Henry Rollins and Erykah Badu. Emek's work has been shown in galleries across the United States, in Berlin, London and Tokyo and Belgium and Canada. He has been interviewed on CNN, featured in magazines and books, including covers of Juxtapoz magazine. [PosterCabaret.com]

EMEK - official site
EMEK graduated with a Major in Art, and a Minor in Unemployment. His first poster commission was done immediately after the L.A. riots/uprising of 1992, for a unity rally and concert held on Martin Luther King Day. The poster was a success and from then on, Emek was hooked on the art form. [...]

Queens of the Stone Age__"Lasercut Snake"__sold out

DJ Shadow__sold out

MY ASSOCIATE CORNELIUS
A. Micah Smith (l) & Frank Chimero

A. Micah Smith is a graphic designer / illustrator living in the great state of Kansas. Emerging from a love of music and art alike, he started My Associate Cornelius in the summer of 2004 as an after hours creative outlet. Over the years it has blossomed into a nationally recognized graphic design studio producing a wide-range of print materials and has become a staple in the independent rock poster scene. Smith has produced work for many great clients such as Wilco, Myspace, Spoon, Newsweek, and the Hold Steady to name a few. His work has also appeared in many magazines (Print, Paste, Nylon) and books, including, Gig Posters, Vol. 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century. [PosterCabaret.com]

Poster for Gomez's 2006 Hollywood show. Imagery based on the song "Chasing Ghosts with Alcohol". Loosely inspired by Slimer's appearance in the Sedgewick Hotel from Ghostbusters...

My Associate Cornelius - official site

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Class of 09: Fashion

The Class of 2009: The Year's Best Designers, Trends, Muses and Models!
While our yearbooks have always been good for intermittent fits of nostalgia, we can't say they were ever really much to look at. This year, though, we're upping the glam quotient on year-end roundups by choosing the best and the brightest of Fashion's class of 2009. And with picks like models nominated for Most Attractive, the edgiest fashion tomes gunning for Most Photogenic, and the most talked-about new designers in the running for Coolest Freshman, you can be sure there won't be any sartorial regrets here. Welcome to the winner's circle...

Cutest Couple - Chicest Collaboration: Target & Rodarte
Rodarte for Target
The Rodarte for Target Go International collection consists of 55 pieces and will range from $9.99 for knee-highs to $79.99 for a leopard print jacket. According to a Target spokesman, the collection is “very feminine, yet very modern and incorporates a rich mix of patterns and fabrications and everything from sequins and bows to faux fur”. Mark your calendars, the limited edition collection will launch at Target stores nationwide and on target.com on December 20, 2009, and will be available through February 6, 2009.

Jamie Burke

Jamie Burke: On Modelling, Music and Kate Moss
JAMIE Burke is all about the hair. In 2005, when he was 20, he had a brief, precocious fling with Kate Moss, then 31, and they were pictured in Aspen together, with their hair flowing in the snow. Next, signing a modelling contract with Calvin Klein, he perfected the art of the soulful hair toss.

His macho-mermaid look makes him easily identifiable when he is photographed in a clinch with a troubled starlet (Sienna Miller, Lindsay Lohan). And when he rocks out on stage with his band burke., he throws his hair around a lot. Never mind that builders sometimes wolf-whistle at him, mistaking him for a girl. Never mind that he can only wash his hair once a month because of flyaway issues - 'When it's clean it goes fluffy and that's so not rock'n'roll, man.' The chicks, he assures me, love it.

'You know, most of the girls I know don't like clean guys. They like me when I've just come off stage, not just out of the shower.' He later tells me that when he comes off stage he sometimes lies on the ground hyperventilating, so I am not sure he is in a position to be much use to said ladies.

But Burke's self-confidence is boundless. 'I'm a big lover. I'm a very sexual being. I'm just off relationships right now because it gets too intense and you can't be without them - or more likely, they can't be without you...' [...]

BURKE only does modelling to subsidise his true love, music. 'I don't want to be photographed in underwear or some crop top, it's not how I roll.' But he likes working for Calvin Klein because they treat him not as a model but as 'a personality'. [...]

I ASK if he finds he often annoys people. 'There's always haters, for sure. The better you do, the more haters there are. It's jealousy. I don't want to blow my own horn but there it is.'

Finally, one last puppyish boast: 'You know, the worst are the girls you're not interested in. They can get really mean and nasty. They'll come up to you after a show and try it on and if you don't show them the right attention they're like, "Do you think you're some kind of superstar?" No, I just don't want to shag you!'

Oh, Jamie. I'd pat him on the head, if it had only seen a little more shampoo. He slides on his shades and heads off with a friendly wave. The Burke has left the building. END

Calvin Klein party for Gabriel Aubry__2008

Jamie Burke - NYMag.com profile

with Kate Bosworth__21 after party__2008

burke. on MySpace Music


photog: David Sims__CK Jeans

photog: Terry Richardson__Interview Magazine


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Svetlana Zakharova

Svetlana Zakharova (born 1979), principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and the Teatro alla Scala, is widely considered among the greatest living ballerinas today and reportedly commands among the highest fees of any ballet dancer, after Sylvie Guillem and Diana Vishneva...Today, Zakharova tours and guests with the world's great ballet companies. She is highly regarded for her technical expertise and for her exceptionally high extensions, which invite comparisons with gymnasts.

Zakharova was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2006.

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Svetlana Zakharova - official website

Revelation



A Young Ballerina Learns to Walk Through Open Doors
WHEN Svetlana Zakharova was 10, her mother took her to an audition at a Kiev ballet school. Ms. Zakharova wanted none of it. She had no taste for ballet, positive or negative; her dread had more to do with the prospect of leaving her family, who lived in Lutsk, a town in western Ukraine.

"I remember that there were so many kids; they were all nervous and so were their parents," she recalled through an interpreter at the Metropolitan Opera House. "I said to my mom: 'I don't want to live in a dormitory; I want to live with my family. That's why even if they will accept me in the school, I won't be studying here.' My mom said, 'Just try to get through the competition first.' "

By the time Ms. Zakharova reached the final round, she fell in love, if not with ballet itself, then at least with the idea of what it might be like to be a ballerina. "There were girls and boys who were already students there, and they were so beautiful," she said. "I decided that I really liked it very much. Finally, when I was accepted, my mom asked me, 'So would you stay and study there?' I told her, 'Yes!' " [...]

NATURALLY supple, with long legs and a luxurious line, Ms. Zakharova possesses the kind of onstage beauty that practically leaves you woozy. With waist-length dark hair framing an alabaster face, she's just as radiant in person, but she's also a bit of a clown. After a photographer reminded her to stand up straight, she giggled and slumped to a grotesque extreme, eerily resembling a drawing by the artist and balletomane Edward Gorey, who might have used one of his favorite words to describe her - "zippy." [...]

FOR all her innate ability, however, Ms. Zakharova has been criticized for doing too much; while her footwork is bracingly sharp, she is so flexible that when she unfolds her leg in a fluid extension to the side, she has been known to graze her ear. Yet Ms. Zakharova is not a vulgar dancer; there's something instinctively casual, even naïve about her performance style.

"People reject things that are new, especially in the ballet," she said. "Standards of beauty change through the ages. I try to push it out of my mind. Why should ballet be as it was 20 years ago? Of course you can lift your leg, but you can also put it up very, very beautifully. As people like to say in ballet jargon, 'make it tasty.' " [...]

MS. ZAKHAROVA has learned that in ballet, success is connected to power. "A very important moment in my professional career came when I was invited to the Paris Opera," she said. "I was 21 or 22. It is now my fourth season performing there. That was the moment when I became a world star. I became independent. It was like my name, my brand. Now, if I don't like something, I can reject it. I can choose a partner with whom I want to dance, I can choose the repertory. So this is like growing up inside myself and growing up with my parts as well." [...]


Svetlana Zakharova on Leaving the Kirov
Svetlana Zakharova, the illustrious 24-year-old Kirov Ballet star who almost single handedly carried this London season by dancing in the first casts of "Le Corsaire", "Swan Lake", "Scheherezade" and "Etudes", has unexpectedly decided to join the Bolshoi Ballet at the end of August.

I spoke to Zakharova after one of her performances last weekend, to find out why she is leaving the Kirov Ballet. I would like to thank Coda for her kindness in translating for me during this interview.
[EXCERPT]
Can you describe about the negative aspects which you've experienced?
IN THE theatre you always have to prove yourself. I constantly have to prove to everyone that I want to do something, and are capable of doing it. And I had to keep it to myself. The only people who knew about it was myself, my beloved teacher Olga Moiseeva (whom I'll greatly miss), and my mother. And I have this drive inside me telling me that you have to be the best, you have to be number 1. This drive was difficult. [...]




Swan Lake

Russ, Mike & Bill

RUSSELL MALIPHANT
Russell Maliphant [born November 18, 1961 in Ottawa, Canada] is a British choreographer who trained at the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance. [...]

Russell continues to work with his own company, the Russell Maliphant Company, which acts as his creative lab for the development and presentation of new work. [...]

Russell Maliphant Company
TEN years or so ago, perhaps less, Russell Maliphant was little known outside a small circle of choosy contemporary dance fans, myself among them. But over the last few years thanks partly to well-publicised collaborations with the Ballet Boyz and - more significantly - with Sylvie Guillem, things have changed; his reputation has spread and he is now, rightly, regarded as one of the most outstanding contemporary choreographers in the UK and probably in Europe. This belated recognition brings its own regrets, however - his new fans will never have had the privilege of seeing Maliphant in his prime as a dancer. I did, and I find it difficult to convey the unique qualities of strength, control, elegance and tranquility that characterised his dancing . Thankfully, these qualities have been preserved in every piece he choreographs - has ever choreographed - for other dancers. [...]

Critical Mass (vid)

Step-by-Step Guide to Dance: Russell Maliphant
Known for his high-profile collaborations with Sylvie Guillem and Robert Lepage, this modern master has a seamless style that never feels forced, writes Sanjoy Roy
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Maliphant's physical style is quite an amalgam, mixing the unpredictability of contact improvisation with the purposefulness of martial arts, the momentum of contemporary dance with the precision and extensions of ballet. Yet it never feels forced; you can't see the seams.

Choreographically, Maliphant is an abstractionist. He works with the physics of action and interaction – tugs and leans, falls and arcs – and you can often sense the chemistry of character and feeling just beneath the carefully crafted surface. Compositionally, he'll often use buildups or accumulations: small, simple motifs that are repeated and developed into larger, more complex patterns.

Duets are Maliphant's forte – even his solos often feel like duets, in which one of the partners is light, space or sound. As an artist, Maliphant's closest and most longstanding creative partner is lighting designer Michael Hulls, who has worked with Maliphant since 1994, and whose lighting is as integral as the choreography to both the creation and the performance of Maliphant's work. [...]

QUOTES
I'll use any vocabulary that's appropriate at the time...I'm as interested in the uplift of ballet as I am in the gravity of modern dance.

I'd hope there is something about the relationship between the people in my pieces that's more important than technique. There is a trust between them – there has to be, given what they're asked to do.

Portrait of the Artist: Russell Maliphant, Choreographer
What got you started?
Going along to ballet class with my sister when I was nine. I'd seen Rudolf Nureyev dance Le Corsaire on TV. He was so athletic, animalistic and sensual: I thought, that's for me.

Who or what have you sacrificed for your art?
Many friendships. I've been touring since 1982, so my social life has naturally fractured.

Ballet or contemporary?
I try to avoid being one or the other - I belong on the side of movement.

Is your work political?
No, it's philosophical. It addresses questions of form and aesthetics.

What's the biggest myth about male dancers?
That we're all sissies. Most of us are actually very powerful

What's the greatest threat to dance today?
Funding cuts. If dancers and choreographers can't afford to sustain their lifestyles, then they can't practise their craft, and the standard of work degenerates.

What advice would you give a young choreographer?
The writer Joseph Campbell once said: "Follow your bliss." If you do that, you can't go wrong.

What's the best advice anyone ever gave you?
When I was 28, the director of a workshop said to me: "Just do it." I wasn't really enjoying dancing at the time, and he reminded me that you have a choice - you either enjoy it, or you don't. [...]

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Russell Maliphant's Still Top of His Class
[By Sarah Frater, Evening Standard - 08.04.09]
OF ALL the good things to say about Russell Maliphant, perhaps the least expected is what a classy dancer he still is. No one doubts his talent as a choreographer but he’s of an age when most dancers have retired and yet at the Coliseum last night he outshone almost everyone.

Maliphant has a hush-lush allure that conjures caryatids and comrades and combatants from thin air. His deceptively simple duets use modern dance and capoeira to play on pace and shift around flow. The dancers echo and challenge and spoof each other, which can be very funny, such as when a dancer gives the impression of doing one thing, only to do something else or nothing at all. You see it in Critical Mass, Maliphant’s duet with Adam Cooper that mixes tango momentum with ritual sparring.

It can also be exhilarating, such as in Two x Two, a duet for Dana Fouras and Daniel Proietto who could be swimmers or gods, or, with Michael Hull’s genius lighting, elemental flashes of sweeping fire.

For this 10-year retrospective, Maliphant has assembled his most ingenious duets. He’s also included Sheer, a pas de deux of unspoken closeness that reminds you how you feel when you’ve loved someone a long time. It’s danced by ballet couple Thomas Edur and Agnes Oaks, who are soon to retire. Seeing them together for what must be one of the last times concentrates the effect. END
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BALLET BOYZ
About
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, previously lead dancers with The Royal Ballet, became better known for their Ballet Boyz programmes on Channel 4 which followed their every move during The Royal Ballet’s nomadic years whilst the Royal Opera House was under renovation. Having developed a taste for film and sharing the highs and lows of creating a show, the film work has become intrinsic to Balletboyz performances and is a popular way of demystifying the art of dance and the choreographic process. [...]

Ballet Boyz - official site
Torsion (vid)



Strictly Bolshoi (clip 1)
This International Emmy Award-winning film follows the world's most sought-after ballet choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, as he becomes the first Englishman invited to create a new work for Moscow's prestigious Bolshoi Ballet. Michael Nunn and William Trevitt were given unprecedented behind the scenes access to give a fascinating insight into the workings of one of the greatest ballet companies in the world. The documentary takes an unexpected turn for viewers and participants alike when they put down the camera to help Wheeldon interpret his ideas for the Russian dancers.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre is the name of six theatres that have been built since 1683 at a site on Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. The present day theatre seats 1,500 and specialises in dance, ranging from ballet to hip hop, contemporary dance to flamenco. Opera, theatre, visual arts and dance on screen also feature in the mix. [...]

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Christian Schmidt - official site

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Christian Schmidt (b. 1970) is a German photographer based in Stuttgart. Great work around landscapes, people, automotive and architecture. There are also gorgeous pictures about emptyness, large spaces, colors… Since 2002, Christian Schmidt has won more than 100 awards at ADC Berlin, ADC New York, AOP London, BFF Germany, Commarts USA, Graphis USA, Lürzers Archive & Lürzers 200 best ad Photographers, PDN Photoannual. [Partfaliaz.com]