‘Kick Ass’ propaganda

Times Square: G.R.E.E.D.

Happy Art Week

Museum of propaganda: ‘We Must Have More Men’

Via Vintagraph (same folks behind Shorpy), from whom you can also order prints.

Museum of propaganda: WPA 2009

Museum of propaganda: WWII anniversary

Today is the 70th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland, which happened in the early hours of Sept. 1, 1939; two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany, and World War II began.

To mark the occasion, the website of Life magazine has put together 37 “intense” propaganda posters, all from the European theater. (None from Japan; come to think of it, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Japanese war propaganda posters, though maybe I’m just blanking.) Most are American, but there are also plenty of German and Soviet posters, and some Finnish, Dutch and Italian ones I’ve not seen.

The images are all credited to Getty, and I’m disappointed that their perennial problem — “rounding off” dates, as some angry newspaper photo editors I know have discovered — has not been fixed. So an image from 1943 is dated Jan. 01, 1943; another from 1942 is Jan. 01, 1942, etc. It’s a serious problem in any case, but it’s especially ridiculous with a World War II survey by Life.

Also, Life: the “sexy or sleazy” thing? Sleazy.

Time travel propaganda posters

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart in LA* is offering a set of four prints by Amy Martin, each a message of good-citizenship propaganda from some very distant era of planetary history — traveling to a “nature park” to see dinosaurs, ice age winter wonderland, etc. They’re $20 each or $70 for all four.

Here are two:

* A.K.A. 826LA, the Los Angeles branch of 826, the nonprofit co-founded by Dave Eggers that tutors kids in writing. (New York’s branch is in Brooklyn.) The Poster District says that another time travel-themed poster sale last year raised $30,000 for 826LA.

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The monsters-chomping-babes series is on vacation today. It will return on Monday.

Museum of propaganda: ‘Let me do the talking!’

Museum of propaganda: Tenement House Dept.

‘World War III propaganda’

Via this person. Original here (and soon to be on my wall, actually).

Museum of propaganda: ‘Don’t waste water’

Museum of propaganda: ‘Censored’

‘This is America!’

This is America!

The long series will be published from the end of August in the Yomiuri Daily. The Gallup Organization will join our go-getter journalist team.

Japanese academic authorities and reporters will analyze in many perspectives the America, which is going through confusions, tensions and anxieties during the time of big change.

Tadanori Yokoo, 1968. (Translation by Hiro.)

Wake Up America Day

‘Evacuation and assistance in case of gas poisoning’

Hiro’s rough translation:

Don’t let the sick walk by himself.
Carry him quietly.
Go to the closest emergency site.
Don’t walk against the wind; reach the safer place that way.

Eat Less Bread

Museum of propaganda: ‘Thank you, Kenya!’

Museum of propaganda: ‘Thank you, Sierra Leone!’

Museum of propaganda: ‘Thank you, Malta!’

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Museum of propaganda: ‘Thank you, Bechuanaland!’

(A.K.A. Bostwana.)