Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters

One of the great­est per­sons in recent his­tory, Hunter S. Thomp­son, writer, jour­nal­ist, politi­cian and most of all Amer­i­can patriot, put an end to his life about five years ago. His work still affects the life and work of many peo­ple all around the world. Even if it’s just for enter­tain­ment while watch­ing the adap­tion of his most famous novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.

Here are some of his most pop­u­lar quotes, put in the their proper envi­ron­ment, HST Moti­va­tional Posters:

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They all went to heaven at the age of 27

I like to lis­ten to The Doors a lot, so I was pretty amazed when I noticed this nice shirt col­lec­tion themed “They all went to heaven at the age of 27″. The Scan­di­na­vians of Whip­ping Floyd have their own, but in my opin­ion very fresh style!

Here are the fea­tured artists:

• Robert John­son (5/8/1911 — 8/16/1938)
• Brian Jones (2/28/1942 — 7/3/1969)
• Janis Joplin (1/19/1943 — 10/4/1970)
• Jimi Hen­drix (11/27/1942 — 9/18/1970)
• Jim Mor­ri­son (12/8/1943 — 7/3/1971)
• Kurt Cobain (2/20/1967 — 4/5/1994)

The For­ever 27 Club con­sists of promi­nent musi­cians who all passed away at the age of 27 years. Too early, if you look at how inspir­ing their music is still today. Time­less clas­sics. To put these peo­ple a mon­u­ment Whip­ping Floyd cre­ated these shirts.

My favorite is Jim Morrison’s:

To explain:

Mr. Mojo Risin is an ana­gram of his name that he uses in the song LA Woman. He spent his last night on earth in the Paris night­club Rock’n’Roll Cir­cus. White horses denote heroin, the rea­son Jim died most likely.

Where Should I Eat?

You know the sit­u­a­tion: exhausted, drunk, just com­pletely wasted — and the worst thing: hungry.

Eat­ing The Road cre­ated a per­fect flow chart for those life-threatening moments of yours:

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some street art

A cre­ative way to mark the emer­gency exit — found in Montréal’s Chinatown.

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Inspired by this work I would like to share some more street art I encoun­tered dur­ing my stay in the States this year. The first piece (my favorite), I tripped over late night in a far-off alley some­where in New Orleans’ French Quar­ter. The other pieces  can be watched in New York City.

Some cutted sheets of paper…

And then some­body came along with a piece of art like this… So i have to blog. Can’t denie… The blogging-monster won the bat­tle. For today…

Ex Libris Art

Ex lib­ris, mean­ing ‘from the library of’, or ‘from the books of’ is a Latin expres­sion attached to the art form of book­plates. These are stamps or labels that appear inside books to denote own­er­ship, and range from the sim­ple to the dec­o­ra­tive and elab­o­rate, to the obscure or even bizarre and surreal.

For tons of Ex Lib­ris head over to Darkroastedblend.com.

Them Thangs

Pre­pare your­self for my web­site of the year: THEM THANGS

As I dis­cov­ered this fan­tas­tic piece of art, I lit­er­ally spent hours in front of the screen, brows­ing this most awe­some col­lec­tion of images ever, soak­ing up so much inspiration.

Seri­ously, this page holds every­thing you were ever look­ing for: bones, guns, cars, bikes, ladies, women, nud­ists, drugs, action, sci­ence, reli­gion, occultism, art, pho­tog­ra­phy, books, ani­mals, stars, celebri­ties, rac­ing, war, gangs, crime, vio­lence, nature, music, sports, gore, fash­ion, quotes, his­tory, viet­nam, skulls, rock’n’roll, fun, sex, shoes, alco­hol, sun­glasses, mag­a­zines, movies, girls and lots more!

The best thing? It’s not just one sin­gle page! Here are all the pages in this fine piece of art so far:

• PARALLEL PARKED IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
• …ONE FALSE MOVE…
• TOO WEIRD TO LIVE, TOO RARE TO DIE
• UP ALL NIGHT, GOT DEMONS TO FIGHT
• MAGGOTS IN THE EYE OF LOVE
• A PASSION FOR PROCRASTINATION
• YOUR KISS SO SWEET. YOUR SWEAT SO SOUR.
• YOUR HEART IS MY PINATA.
• LET’S CATCH UP, TAKE OUR CLOTHES OFF, STARE AT EACHOTHER
• EVERYBODY’S GOT A PLAN TIL’ THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE FACE
• SUDDENLY,.. COMPLETELY
• ALL THE MANNERS THAT I’VE BEEN TAUGHT HAVE SLOWLY DIED AWAY
• YOU ARE THE QUARRY
• Fuck Your Theories
• Fuck Your Theories
• Fuck Your Theories

I guess, this list gives you an idea of what I’m talk­ing about…

The site is appar­ently a project of graphic artist, ani­ma­tor and art direc­tor Justin Blyth, so thanks a bunch for the mindfuck!

advertising understatement

Just found this nice series of car com­mer­cials in my email archive. Some years ago, the Brits already knew how to under­line their cars’ advan­tages:
BMW starts an ad:

The response of AUDI:

That’s  SUBARU’s contribution:

Finally the true player shows his com­peti­tors how to run the business: