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praphit · 3 years
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Rated L for Lactation
So, I don't have a movie for you this time. This time I only have my dream. Now, this dream gets a lil weird. By the title of the post you should know that it involves milk action. If you are allergic to or are easily offended by bodily milkiness, I suggest that you skip this one, and wait for my next movie review :)
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THE REENACTMENT:
I had a dream centered around lactation. No, I was not the one who was lactating.
My dream started off with me breaking into a white woman's home.
(We'll use Michael B Jordan to play me. He's not as good-looking as I am, but he'll do.)
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Let me stop real quick:
As a black man, I know that the whole "breaking into a white woman's home" detail might leave certain white people anxious. Calm down. I would never break into anyone's home. No need to up your security. This was just a dream.
So, I broke into her home, but I know this woman. I have not thought about this woman in almost 20 years. I haven't spoken to or messaged her. NOTHING. I have no idea why she popped up in my dream. Honestly, I don't remember even liking her all that much. As I remember it, she was kind of a jerk.
We'll use Jennifer Lawrence as... you know what?? -  This dream (as I said) gets a lil weird, so let's not use a woman. Let's use... Woody Harrelson. 
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Picture Woody as the whitest, nerdiest woman (who's kind of a jerk, maybe) that you can imagine.
Mikey B breaks into Lady Woody's home... come to think of it, I don't know why I originally broke in.
I guarantee that it was not to do anything dastardly. Again, calm down, white people.
I do admit that this looks bad so far, though. Let's say that I broke in to find... NO.. to save her. Let's say that I heard sounds of a struggle, and BRAVELY broke into her place to see if she was okay. YES!
So, Mikey B breaks into Lady Woody's home to save her from what sounded like a beast (sure). Now, I find out that she was still asleep. Somehow or other I find myself in the guest room, and I'm snooping, wait... I'm searching diligently around her home, just in case the intruder or beast is still around. I look in the drawer of the guest room, and find a VHS. Yep, VHS. I pop it into the VCR, and... that also looks bad, doesn't it?
Well, we'll say that it had a label on it. This label read "Insurrection", and it had a little picture of a confederate flag on it. No, God-fearing American citizen would gloss over that, right?? So, I popped it in to investigate.
Mikey B is now laying on the guest room bed, while watching the video.
On the vid, Lady Woody is dancing at some sort of party in a silk, sky blue night gown. She's dancing like you'd imagine Shakira dancing. 
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It looks like she's in a foreign country. There are brown people all around her (White people, I'm not going to tell you again. Calm down. The brown people were celebrating her; almost worshipping her).
When all of a sudden Lady Woody's chest is wet. Mikey B could see that this wetness was milk. This was a lactation situation. (Now, I feel like I must say that this dream is NOT sexual in nature. I know that some of your minds are creeping near the gutter, and you need to get it together. I assure you that this is not about sex, but... some sort of... wholesome, spiritual experience. Okay??).
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SERIOUSLY!
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Ok, so, Lady Woody is wet all over. 
We're not talking a few drops of milk. We're talking streams of milk. 
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Like... there's a large, continuously growing puddle of milk under her, and spreading out to the crowd. She is not ashamed or even concerned. How many of you, if streams of milk mysteriously started flowing (and I times spraying) out of your nipples, would at least be concerned? Woody just kept dancing. And the people -  they loved every second of it. They were dancing in the milk, and some of them were drinking it.
At this point, I hear someone else breaking into Lady Woody's home. It's my sister and my aunt, and they were arguing - LOUDLY. My immediate thoughts were not, " What the hell are they doing here?" but "why are they being so noisy? - they're going to wake Lady Woody up"
We'll have Awkwafina play my sister 
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and Leslie Jones play my aunt.
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Mikey B then turns back to the screen to see Lady Woody on the ground (you know how people make snow angels?)... um... she was making breast milk angels. THEN, a monkey jumped on top of her. 
There's a poster of a movie called "Monkey Shines"
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- it looked kinda like that.
The monkey will be played by Bill Murray (we'll use CGI to make him smaller).
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Murray the Monkey jumped on top of Lady Woody, they kissed (just a friendly peck - again, stay away from the gutter).
I then heard my sister and aunt arguing some more. And then I woke up.
I can't end the reenactment there though... not very satisfying.
We'll say that... SUDDENLY an alien bursts into the guest room with Mikey B. This alien was making the same sounds Mikey heard that led him to break into this home.
The alien (CGI) looked like... um... it had old school Arnold’s body, 
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with E.T's head... 
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- some chicken wings (not chicken wings for eating... I mean, it had wings... the majestic wings of a chicken), 
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and... Trump's hair for a bottom (not for a butt, but his bottom half).
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Um... Woody wakes up with Leslie Jones and Awkwafina bantering above her bed, when... JESUS appears (played by Kumail Nanijiani). 
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Jesus says "Get out here! Y'all don't wanna miss this."
He leads them out to the living room.
The alien hears Jesus and runs to the living room as well... well whatever one with the bottom half made of Trump's hair does as a "run".
The alien growls (we'll have Morgan Freeman do his voice).
Jesus glows kinda like Goku from Dragon Ball Z. He starts to charge up a fireball to shoot at the alien.
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When the words "This shit's about to get real. To Be Continued..." scroll at the bottom of the screen.
And BOOM! End the reenactment! Boom! There's my dream... kinda.
So, if any of y'all know a good dream... what are they called? - "readers?" "Dreamreaders" Interpreters. Hit me up.
If not, that's okay. I bet someone else out there has dreamt of lactation, and I want you to know, that you're not alone.
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kickbulk · 3 years
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Nike AIR JORDAN12 'THE MASTER' 130690-013
Inspired by the iconic 1997 'Master' poster by Michael Jordan, the Air Jordan 12 Retro 'The Master' features a white-accented black leather upper and metallic gold eyelets. Released in February 2016, ' The Master ' dropped with the Air Jordan 2 Retro ' Wing It ' in a two-pack ' Poster Collection.
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buddha-arena · 4 years
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Clifton Henri
WINGS, 1999
Dubuque, IA - USA
Archival Pigment Print
Open Editions Titled & Initialed
Limited Editions Signed & Numbered
“Wings” is dedicated to all the courageous women and fearless little girls that are determined to see themselves represented in this world. May you conquer any and every obstacle set in your path. May your confidence never be swayed and instincts never doubted. Shine like you were meant to. Fly like you were born to. And don’t they anything stand in your way.
FUN FACT: The title “Wings” was inspired by the classic Michael Jordan poster with his arms spread, palming a basketball, embellishing his wing span.
Source: Clifton Henri Studios website
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parkinglotvalentine · 5 years
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that michael jordan wings poster, except the width of his head is stretched out to fit the width of the poster
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undertheinfluencerd · 3 years
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Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
While Marvel’s Phase 4 has been mostly backward-looking for its first outings, in terms of reusing character, Shang-Chi is finally here to change things up. The MCU’s first martial arts fantasy epic is certainly different and unquestionably bold, but does it work, and will Marvel fans take to it as one of the strongest origin stories so far? How does it stand as a new branch for the MCU to nurture in other words?
For the most part, Marvel’s MCU origin stories have been particularly strong. Even ignoring the usual issues with over-emphasis on exposition, comic book movie fans love to see new superheroes take up the mantle. It’s traditionally been in MCU sequels where struggles have been more obvious – apart from Captain America’s seemingly bullet-proof sub-franchise of course. In that respect, Shang-Chi had reason to be confident, even with a vastly different focus to the other MCU kickstarter projects. But at the same time, with the expectations of fans built on 24 movies and billions of dollars, aiming for something different was never going to be completely straightforward. Particularly with the issues presented by the industry at the moment.
Related: Why Shang-Chi’s Avengers Cameo Looks Different From Endgame
Early box office results suggest Shang-Chi is going incredibly well and a 90%+ Rotten Tomatoes review score into opening weekend is always a very good sign. That is a testament to what Simu Liu and director Destin Daniel Cretton have achieved. That said, though, Shang-Chi has some teething issues, even for a movie that is very good overall. In the interest of balance, here’s everything that worked incredibly well in Shang-Chi and the few areas where it perhaps missed the mark.
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As with any MCU origin story, there’s a lot of necessary exposition in Shang-Chi. The majority of this is conveyed via flashback, which works, and could have been a little jarring was the narrative importance of the past not been handled well. That typically means there is less space for character, which is often particularly true of a movie with such major fantastical elements and action set-pieces, but not in Shang-Chi. Simu Liu positively radiates charisma, even as he guards his character (to protect his secrets), promising an awful lot more in the MCU’s future. Awkwafina’s Katy is not just the audience’s eyes in Shang-Chi’s world, but she’s also the breakout character (the same way Ratcatcher was in The Suicide Squad and Michael Pena’s Luis was in Ant-Man). The fact that she returns in future, as set up by the end, can only be a good thing. Add to that, the performances of legends like Tony Leung and Michelle Yeoh – not just in combat, but in quieter moments – and it’s a truly great group.
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Speaking of Tony Leung, his Wenwu – wrongly named The Mandarin or “The Real Mandarin” throughout the marketing – makes a strong claim to be one of the best human MCU villains alongside Michael B Jordan’s Killmonger. Even faced with being overshadowed by a colossal winged demon in the final act, Leung’s dramatic chops back up his stunning martial arts work to create a bad guy who is not only empathetic but compelling in his cause. He is in pain, haunted by his own part in his wife’s death, and corrupted by the power of the Ten Rings and what lies beyond Ta Lo’s portal. Though he also had a more traditional hunger for power before meeting Shang-Chi’s mother, he puts that one-dimensional motivation aside to be a man pushed to desperate, catastrophic measures by his grief. To contrast that with how Iron Man 3 originally portrayed the supposedly same character is night and day.
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While the dynamic between Wenwu, Shang-Chi, and Xialing is great, Shang-Chi is best when it’s examining their personal story. Unfortunately, the shift in gears in the third act that sees them arrive in Ta Lo and face the impending arrival of the Dweller-in-Darkness feels like a similar situation that undermined how good The Avengers was. Suddenly adding the Dweller as the final act “big boss”, plus an army of otherwise unmentioned flying soul sucker drones is very much like Whedon’s use of the Chitauri army to escalate matters for the heroes in his final act back in 2012. That’s not to say there aren’t impressive moments in the battle – and who doesn’t want to see what amounts to the MCU’s first kaiju on kaiju battle? – but there’s not quite enough tension when the personal story is ripped away.
Related: Is Shang-Chi Officially An Avenger Now?
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The benefit of adding a martial arts master to the MCU is immediately obvious as soon as Shang-Chi gets into its combat groove. The opening fight sequence on the bus careening down San Francisco’s famous hills is remarkable and it’s far from the best. Elsewhere, Tony Leung, Simu Liu, Andy Le, Fala Chen, Meng’er Zhan, and young Arnold Sun (a revelation as teen Shang-Chi in training flashbacks) all put together gravity-defying martial arts set-pieces that are unlike anything seen in the MCU. So far, the MCU brand of martial arts has looked more like the bruising style of Florian Munteanu’s Razor Fist, but here there’s balletic grace mashed up with the physical drunken boxer humor of Kung Fu Hustle (referenced lovingly not only in a poster in Shang-Chi’s wall, but also in the casting of Yuen Wah as Ta Lo Master Guang Bo. The slow-motion can get a little over-indulgent, but there’s no doubting the obscene skill involved.
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Despite the mastery of the fight choreography and the incredible environmental designs that go into Ta Lo in particular, some of Shang-Chi‘s CGI is on a par with the worst moments of Black Panther‘s notorious early trailers. There’s more than one regrettable ragdoll sequence, including part of the otherwise excellent bus fight, and while the Great Protector battling the Dweller-in-Darkness is a fun spectacle, some of it is too muddied by an attempt to presumably hide the heavy effects work involved. The moment that sees Shang-Chi run up the otherworldly beast, in particular, is near-impossible to follow.
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The MCU has been accused before of being too focused on shoe-horning humor in to meet the expectations of the lucrative family audience, and even some of the best Marvel movies too have clunking gags in them. Shang-Chi, though, brilliantly balances humor and heart and drama. Awkwafina’s Katy and Sir Ben Kingsley’s return as Trevor Slattery take care of much of the leg work, but Simu Liu’s comic background helps a great deal, though his jokes come less frequently than his “sidekicks”. There’s never any attempt to really undermine heavy, dramatic moments with humor, which is where Marvel stumbles a lot and crucially, Shang-Chi being an insider on his lore means there’s no reductive mockery of the mythology behind his powers and his family.
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Shang-Chi is a stand-alone almost to the same degree as a Phase 1 movie, and that’s great, but there are obviously expectations to tie it back to the rest of the MCU, and – as ever – use its end as a stepping stone to what comes next. Had that ended with Wong’s recruitment of Shang-Chi and Katy and the impromptu, hilarious karaoke sessions, that would have been perfectly fine, but then Shang-Chi‘s mid-credits scene goes too far. Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner’s inclusions feel too much like big-name appearances for the sake of familiarity, particularly because both add very little to the discussion on the Ten Rings other than a bemused shrug. They’re there so that Marvel can remind the audience that there’s always something bigger coming, but it didn’t need to be done this way when Wong’s mysterious tease of what he needed Shang-Chi for was satisfying enough.
Related: How Marvel Retconned Its Iron Man 3 Mandarin Controversy
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Now that there are 25 MCU movies and a number of Disney+ Marvel shows to throw into the mix, the requirement to do Marvel homework before each release is getting to the point where casual audiences simply will not do it. Luckily, Shang-Chi exists on its own merit strongly and without the crutch of the rest of the franchise, meaning any pre-watching is limited. Yes, there are nods to the post-Endgame world in posters about Snap Anxiety, and Wong and Tim Roth’s Abomination appear, but the only substantial link is to Trevor Slattery’s arc in Iron Man 3, and he is played in such a way that he’s no more than a jester brought along to help Morris become the next most memeable Marvel character. His arc is entirely explained within Shang-Chi anyway, so that serves as all the required reminder. The reason this is such a big plus for Shang-Chi is that it has to be how Marvel moves forward when establishing new MCU IPs, like X-Men, Fantastic Four, Blade, and whoever else comes along: not everything has to be tied to the nostalgia machine. Shang-Chi proves it’s still possible to strike out onto a new branch without everything being a set-up for when the next cameo will happen.
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While Tony Leung’s Wenwu is great (particularly in how he retcons Iron Man 3‘s Mandarin mistake), and the fight sequences involving both are hugely entertaining, it’s difficult not to feel that both Razor Fist and – even more so – Death Dealer aren’t rather undernourished. The former’s complexity is as limited as you might expect from someone who drives around in an SUV with his own name spraypainted on the side (even when it’s achingly hinted for about two seconds that he fears for his master’s mental health), and the latter is a plot device killed off for effect. Neither is given anything like the charisma to hide their lack of development and backstory and it’s a real shame. At least Razor Fist’s likely return might afford more of an opportunity.
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Not only is Shang-Chi a great stand-alone, but it is fundamentally different from what MCU fans have seen over the past decade. While it has the same hallmarks of familial conflict and daddy issues as lots of previous Marvel movies, it balances that with martial arts, new mysticism, a dragon, a giant kaiju-like demon, and the suggestion that more lands like Wakanda can exist beyond portals to other realms. There can be no accusations of deferring to type or Shang-Chi being somehow formulaic, and after 24 films, that is an impressive thing to be able to state. It also makes forthcoming new creative endeavors – like Eternals – that have a similar burden of expectation to be new and exciting a lot easier to back to succeed with the audience. The start of Phase 4 has looked backward a little more than some may like, but Shang-Chi is bold and unafraid to be wildly different to its stable-mates, and that should give future MCU creators cause for confidence.
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itsyaboybu · 4 years
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Blog Assignment #3
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This first image that I looked at was a poster of Michael Jordans “wings”. I specifically picked this poster because I felt the typography of this speaks to the meaning of the message being portrayed. Looking at the typography from a personal perspective, it is clear that the letters of the word “wings” are spaced out with the length of this poster, additionally, they are the same length as jordans wingspan symbolizing that jordans wingspan is what makes him “fly”. These posters were sold in only one size which was the length of jordans wingspan. Additionally, jordans slogan for his brand is “Air Jordan” and this shows jordans “wings”. The spacing of the typography helps show just how big his “wings” are. Looking at this from a technical perspective, the typeface and font of the letters don’t stand out from the original image. They contrast against the white background because they’re black. I also feel like because they are black, it follows the black & white theme of the rest of the image.
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This next image I looked at is the album artwork for Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN. The reason I picked this artwork is because I loved the way the typography is displayed on this piece of art for many reasons. Firstly, I loved the way all of the typography on the album cover is capitalized and bold. The typography also follows the theme of black and white except for the large title on the top. I believe the contrast between black and white in the typography of the song titles works to make the image appear two dimensional. Additionally, every word/phrase ends with a period and everything is monospaced. Moreover, all the song titles seemed to be centered using the last letter against the line that splits black and white in the background. All of the font in the black background is colored differently and vise versa. This constant contrast, however, is broken by the green title “DAMN.”. Ethically, album covers are known to communicate many different meanings about the artist and or music that the artwork represents. Kendrick Lamar is no different, He is a master at using his music and album artwork to hint at and explain various issues he sees wrong with the world. Typography is one of the ways in which Lamar does so on his artwork. Culturally, Lamar Is seen as one of the greatest lyricists living to date. His music is considered timeless to some and so is the album artwork.
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The last piece in which I decided to analyze is a picture I found On google. I decided to analyze this image because I loved the contrast between red and white. Looking at the semiotics of this quickly the use of red is used to symbolize bad typography. White is used to symbolize good typography. The use of depth is also used to outline the white typography from its background. The white font says “GOOD TYPOGRAPHY IS INVISIBLE” and the red says,” BAD TYPOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE”. I love this contrast in color because it helps they typography move the message of this picture. At first glance, the red font is cleary and easily accessible because of this contrast. It helps move its message because it’s trying to send. Additionally, all of the words are capitalized and bold. However, there is a difference in the font used from the white font to the red font. The simple fact that they both use a different typeface is what makes this image powerful. Ethically, this communicates that we are constantly being fed with examples of bad typography in media because it’s easy to spot and see. On the other hand, Good typography is harder to spot/see because normal individuals are blinded by bad typography as shown in the image.
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Marco Rubio is the Poster Boy du jour for the Stupid Watergate
COMMENTARY:
The way to tell if a Republican was recruited by Newt Gingrich is that they are often very pretty, in a Barbie Doll kind of way, number one, like Marco Rubio and, two, in the final analysis, they were either dumber than dog shit before they were recruited and selected on than basis and/or, the process of becoming a Tea Party crypto-Nazi useful idiot, have become dumber than dog shit because they buy into the politics of Steve Bannon or they are really smart, like George Conway, but have found it expedient to pretend they are dumber than dog shit in order to make a lot of money.
Lindsey Graham falls into this category.
What about people like John McCain?  
I think, after the Keating 5, he was woke, in a #Blacklivesmatter kind of way. He didn't really understand how Supply-side economics works, but he has the typical Harvard religious faith in the theological righteousness of Capitalism, as opposed to the godless commie cocksuckers who embrace the economics of the Anti-Christ, Marxism. It was easy for him to connect the dots between the faces of the North Korean patriots who tortured him and Marxism. I feel his pain, but it's a connection he needed to undo, in “The Undoing Project” kind of way that Michael Lewis talks about. It's the business I am in, human high performance. Human peak performance is really outside my focus. I know how to coach for it, but its a bit too retail: my stuff is geared for a wholesale/community aspirational population. People who work their KSA's and burning desire to the point where they need coaching in peak performance began to focus on high performance as a state of being at the level of performance technology I offer. It's Ranger School stuff geared for small unit leadership in a purposeful community.
McCain is considered a RINO by the people in the MAGA hats. That's what those hats mean: you've bought into the Trump Program lock, stock and barrel and if you aren't letting asshole crypto-Nazis like Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh and Steve Bannon or asshole femi-Nazis like Kellyanne Conway, Laura Ingraham or Betsy Devos pull you around by your dick, then you are a RINO.
That the category McCain falls into in contrast to the House Freedom Caucus and asshole crypto-Nazi thugs like Jim Jordan and Stephen King and Newt Gingrich and Roger Stone. McCain wasn't afraid of anybody. Period. That's the thing that drew Lindsey Graham into his orbit: in a culture that operates like a Super Max captive audience, Tootsy Roll Graham sought out the baddest dog in the yard, because McCain had been there and done that. His problem was, he didn't know how to fix it.
I do. The final product is the Green New Deal, but there is a whole lot of undoing needs to be done by the American voter, regardless of ideological inclination before we can get to the Green New Deal in the 117 Congress. The 116th Congress is the Undoing Project and AOC is the way forward.
Here's the thing about Marco Rubio that demonstrates his core dumber-than-dogshit skill set required to work for Newt Gingrich, Steve Bannon and Mick Mulvaney. First of all, Mario is pretty in a Ricky Ricardo latin lover kind of way and he can be relied on to come out and promote the party line in some fairly predictable way. The party line is now turning against China because President Xi  isn't going to do a trade deal with Trump until he, Duck Ass Don, keeps his promise to Chairman Kim to get a GI haircut like Elvis as a personal performance surety to implement Lady Trump's Task Force Δ to her perfect satisfaction as a precondition to doing business. The GI hair cut. An outward sign that he, Trump, was engaged in the Memorandum of Understanding phase of a serious process of the zero-sum contracting you do with Marxists.
And Donald Duck Ass left Hanoi because he isn't about to get a GI haircut just to please his new girl friend: Kim Jung Un is no Delilah but Duck Ass Don is all Samson and intends to keep his super powers. He has a superstitious belief that he is invisible behind his hair and nobody can touch him.
So, any denuclearization and China Trade deal needs to wait to the 117 Congress, when the Green New Deal kicks in and Duck Ass Don is kicking those things to the curb and shifting his focus on invading Iran, which is the deal he made with Netanyahu at John Bolton's insistence. Bolton's relationship with the assassination of Kaddahfi is a big reason why Chairman Kim accelerated his nuke/ICBM programs during the Obama administration. Obama inherited Robert Kagan's “Liberal Interventionist” neo-con foreign policy and the Clinton State Department continued to implement regime change. Trump's connection to the Kremlin reassured Chairman Kim that he, Trump, wasn't going to implement's Obama's foreign policy, and Chairman Kim wants to do in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea what Vietnam has done, in terms of modifying their original Soviet Marxism into a Free Market Marxism that works very much like Hong Kong: different from the PRC's Harvard Marxism and naturally entrepreneurial from their French heritage.
And that's why Marco put out this statement. They are scrambling to find anything to recover the leverage they had over Obama and Nancy Pelosi before the Mueller Report emerged in the mix. The hard-core MAGA hat crowd in Congress are a lot like the Nazi submariners after the Happy Times, soldiering on but being sunk, one by one, by their own embrace of dog shit stupidity as a political agenda. And China is now an enemy, especially since Putin has gone long on the Yuan and dumped the eurodollar/green back, the favorite currency to the vast right-wing conspiracy working out of the cesspool of the GOP Deep State. Putin did this to pop the Trump Bubble driving the Bull Market on the NYSE. He doesn't want Trump re-elected unless he keeps his promise to Chairman Kim.
But here is the important stupidity contained in Rubio's commentary: the Belt and Road Initiative and the Green New Deal are the same thing: President Xi wants to import the Green New Deal to upgrade his Harvard Marxism to Democratic Socialism because that actually what Marxism had in mind without realizing America was already the leading edge of the on-going social engineering of the US Constituion that was evolving the Democratic Socialism FDR stumbled into in 1933 and Eisenhower doubled down on with his 1956 Presidential Platform.
A difference between McCain and Eisenhower is that Eisenhower knew his accusations of socialism against Truman were pure right-wing dog whistles he needed to use to get elected while McCain really believed socialism was evil. It's was a difference between USNA and USMA before Ayn Rand spoke at USMA. Things seem to have gone a little sideways at the Point since 1974. But that's a different problem.
President Moon in the Republic of Korea and President Xi in the PRC want to introduce Green New Deal by way of the PRC's Belt and Road Initiative. The one very smart thing Chairman is doing is going everywhere by train. He's not afraid of flying: he's making the point of his design for connection the dots between Seoul and Bejing with mass transportation. America needs to do exactly the same thing: restore the rail-road right-of-ways to a strategic grade sufficient to move armor anywhere between our boarders, a serious Trails-to-Rails/Trails upgrade. It will be good for the tourist business, among other things, to provide extensive public transportation as well as heavy cargo in order to shift about 25% of the throughput load on the interstate system onto rails. The interstate system was never intended to replace the railroads, but to augment their capacities. For various reasons, this has been neglected since the 60's and purposefully ignored since Reagan began to replace the Democratic Socialism he inherited with the Tory Socialism Rubio Marco and John McCain both represented.
Marco earned his place in Newt Gingrich's crypto-Nazi All Stars line up by being able to deliver this sort of drivel without having to think about it. In fact, actually thing about it, and not parroting the party line coming out of the Oval Office, is how you can become identified as as RINO or a progressive socialist terrorist. Bolton and Pompeo are using the sanctions against the Iranian oil to punish President Moon's South Korea for not forcing Chairman Kim to make a deal, but President Moon backs Chairman Kim 100% and the 117th Congress is only 633 days away.
Here is the message the adult leadership in the GOP needs to hear from Adam Schiff: if Duck Ass Don is re-elected, he will be impeached by Labor Day 2021. There is no hurry on this: as an Eisenhower Republican, Bill Weld is the sort of adult leadership the GOP had when I was growing up and I'd vote for him, Otherwise, I like Jay Inslee, because he is already implementing the Green New Deal as governor of Washington.
Marco Rubio is the Poster Boy du jour for the Stupid Watergate .
Personally, it's a toss up as to whether the National Review or Breitbart is the journal of record for the Stupid Watergate. Of course, FOX News is the voice of the Stupid Watergate.
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Lynx-Sparks was petty chaos, and 6 other reasons to love the WNBA this week
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Beef, buzzer-beaters, records and more!
The 2018 WNBA season is underway and it took the stars all of one game to be their unapologetic savage selves. With an ESPN2 buzzer-beater, a heaping of smack talk and an influx of unbelievably talented rookies, the W isn’t wasting time boasting its talents.
With many players just rejoining their WNBA teams over the last two weeks (and some not even back yet), athletes don’t have rust to shake off. They’re game-ready season-round and it showed.
What’d ya miss?
1. Everything about Lynx-Sparks
Let’s check in with Candace Parker first. How was the opening weekend in your honest opinion, Candace?
Candace Parker's reaction to the Sparks' game-winner against the Lynx ➡️ @SwishAppeal pic.twitter.com/KoraIYvMuY
— SB Nation (@SBNation) May 20, 2018
Yup, that’s what happens when your team unexpectedly wins on the road at the buzzer against the defending champion Lynx without you, the former Sixth Woman of the Year or first-round pick.
Chelsea Gray is cold for doing this a SECOND time in Minnesota.
The Sparks-Lynx rivalry is one of the best in sports. This game-winner only makes it even better. @WNBApic.twitter.com/OeyqfT7x7u
— SB Nation (@SBNation) May 20, 2018
Chelsea Gray’s also a big mood
if this isn’t the best damn photo pic.twitter.com/AdUmkxuVAF
— Whitney Medworth (@its_whitney) May 21, 2018
This is all funnier because the Lynx tried to be petty as hell
The Sparks lost to the Lynx in the Finals last year. The Lynx started playing their ring ceremony video in the middle of the Sparks’ practice today : @sportsiren pic.twitter.com/3Fbi9uv3mY
— SB Nation (@SBNation) May 20, 2018
The Lynx accidentally played their ring ceremony video during the Sparks practice earlier and then lost.
Yikes.
2. Diana Taurasi is back on her bulls***
It took one game for DT to not only add to history with her 1,000th career three-point make, but also drop an extremely visible, probably unnecessary, but absolutely on-brand mother f-bomb in-game.
big big fan of any player who splashes a 3 and then says "motherfucker" to everyone on the court pic.twitter.com/U7u33C5qes
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) May 19, 2018
Taurasi’s three made her the fourth pro in the NBA/WNBA to hit 1,000 in under 400 games along with Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Damian Lillard. This is what the goat does.
HISTORY
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3. Kristi Toliver is crossing people up again
.@KristiToliver shows off the handles on @NBATV and finds Tierra Ruffin-Pratt for the trey! #WNBAAllDay League Pass free trial thru Thursday: https://t.co/2rP3JX6Nhi pic.twitter.com/5eLpmY6k9u
— WNBA (@WNBA) May 20, 2018
LMFAO.
4. Lindsay Whalen and Odyssey Sims aren’t big fans of each other!
Neither Whalen nor Sims is giving an inch pic.twitter.com/aakwYVMBlj
— Born Salty (@cjzero) May 20, 2018
This rivalry rules.
5. Maya Moore’s on a Michael Jordan-like “Wings” poster and inspiring kids
Daughters first @WNBA game and she’s inspired by @MooreMaya of the @minnesotalynx pic.twitter.com/WUhZFAoVdh
— Justice Sikakane, Sr (@justicesikakane) May 20, 2018
Imagine leaving the Target Center after shootaround and having no idea you would walk into this. For those of us who have loved and supported the WNBA for a long time, these are the seemingly "little" heavenly moments that bring tears to your eyes. Glad I was there to witness it. pic.twitter.com/KrbNndxzpK
— LaChina Robinson (@LaChinaRobinson) May 21, 2018
Amazing!
Yes, Tyus Jones.
That Maya Moore poster needs to be up all summer!
— Tyus Jones (@1Tyus) May 22, 2018
Oh yeah, and she collected ring No. 4 in seven years on Sunday.
@MooreMaya collects her 4th ring in 7 seasons! #WatchMeWork pic.twitter.com/BDDSwSU717
— WNBA (@WNBA) May 20, 2018
6. Allie Quigley’s firing from anywhere and everywhere again
Me, uneducated, very new WNBA fan: “Wait, Allie Quigley at almost 32 years old has 41 points on 32 possessions? How did she?” /watches clips OH MY GOD HER TRIGGER-FINGER IS MORE OF A CONCEPTUAL IDEA THAN AN ACTUAL THING pic.twitter.com/Zh3G1CXme3
— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) May 21, 2018
(She does this.)
Now the rebuilding Sky are 2-0 — and fun!
7. Opening night shoes were FIRE
The Seattle Storm starters:
The @seattlestorm put on their own sneaker convention last night. pic.twitter.com/lyqGWWfRNt
— SLAM Magazine (@SLAMonline) May 21, 2018
Gabby Williams wore LeBron’s:
gabby’s lebron 15s are pic.twitter.com/DAgfboGyG6
— Whitney Medworth (@its_whitney) May 21, 2018
So did Taurasi:
most importantly we need to talk about taurasi wearing the “orange box” lebron 15s tonight pic.twitter.com/nRxzTT6Txv
— Whitney Medworth (@its_whitney) May 19, 2018
Who’s ready for another week in the W?
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WNBA Season Tips Off With Jordan Brand Tribute to Maya Moore
For Sunday’s season opener for the WNBA, the Minnesota Lynx team unveiled a billboard on Sunday featuring their star forward and four-time WNBA champion Maya Moore. As seen above, Moore is shown with arms aloft in a pose like Michael Jordan’s wings poster from 1989, when he was with the Chicago Bulls. Sponsored by Nike’s Jordan brand, which also released a video to mark the occasion.
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Jordan Brand signed Moore in 2011, when she was the No. 1 WNBA draft pick; she was also the first female athlete to sign an endorsement deal with the company. In 2015, Jordan Brand released Moore’s own personal shoe. The WNBA season starts on Sunday May 20, and the Lynx open their 2018 season against the Los Angeles Sparx.
meets pic.twitter.com/9aZem84b47
— Minnesota Lynx (@minnesotalynx) May 20, 2018
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A Requiem for the Sports Poster
Blake Griffin probably remembers every memorable dunk in his career. Timofey Mozgov. Pau Gasol. Kendrick Perkins. The Kia he jumped over to win the 2011 dunk contest. It’s a long list, but because those moments are played on endless loops during highlights, dunk compilations, GIFs, YouTube videos, and many other digital forms online, they’re hard to ignore, for Griffin or the average fan.
But finding those moments, the ones that sports fans and announcers frequently call “posterizations,” on an actual poster? That’s much more difficult today. “It’s different now,” Griffin told VICE Sports. “Growing up, I had posters. Now, kids can just go to YouTube to watch your highlights. The mixtape might be the new poster now.”
Michael Wilbon is credited with the earliest use of the term, in a 1991 Washington Post article, when he described Sam Perkins getting out of the way of a Michael Jordan dunk to avoid being “posterized.” Nearly 30 years later, when a thunderous slam dunk happens in a game, like when LeBron James threw down arguably the best dunk of his career recently on Jusuf Nurkic, social media accounts still rush to proclaim that another player has been put on a poster.
But they’re not actually being put on posters anymore. As the world has become more digital, the value of owning a permanent, physical item seems to matter less and less. We’ve seen this with music, where CDs have been replaced by streaming services. Just a decade ago, purchasing DVDs and Blu-rays was still a thing for collectors, and while they may persist today, every television show and movie is also just a click away.
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Bismack Biyombo, not actually posterized. Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports
Neil Flagg is the founder, president, and CEO of Sports Poster Warehouse, which markets itself as "the world’s one-and-only sports poster specialty store." Flagg, a huge sports fan and sports poster fan growing up, launched his company in 1997.
“Like everything in the modern age,” Flagg told VICE Sports, “markets are fragmented. There are so many different products out there. There’s nothing that everyone needs to have. There’s a fragmentation of culture. People aren’t unified by any one thing anymore. In the internet age, everybody likes something different. Everybody is into their own thing. It’s more of an individualistic culture.”
Flagg remembers the joy of hanging up posters of his favorite sports moments in his room growing up, including Paul Henderson’s series winning goal over the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summit Series, one of the most iconic moments in Canadian sports history.
Michael Jordan’s “Wings” poster and Bo Jackson’s “The Ball Player” posters are among Flagg’s personal favorites. He also has an affinity toward Marketcom’s classic white-borders posters, which you could order from the back of Sports Illustrated magazines in the 1970s and 1980s.
A lot of these vintage posters, which have been out of print for years, are still available on Flagg’s website, thanks to years of sourcing original posters from sporting goods stores that were shutting down and liquidating their inventory, or taking advantage of other opportunities to purchase vintage collections from sellers.
"The mixtape might be the new poster now.”
Flagg disagreed with the original premise of this story, which was the death of the sports poster. “I wouldn’t say there’s a death of sports posters,” Flagg said. “But there’s definitely been the death of the iconic sports poster.”
Aside from his theory that posters are no longer a cultural event, Flagg pointed to the monopolization of the poster industry as something that has created little to no incentive for anyone to want to be creative with their poster designs.
Today, posters—of sports and pop culture variety—are mostly produced by Trends International, a private company based out of Indianapolis. They’re the company that stocks posters at big-box stores like Walmart and Target. The market is no longer filled with individual people who can express themselves creatively.
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Your bedroom wall, the final frontier. Image via Costacosbrothers.com
When it comes to creativity in the poster business, nobody did it better than John and Tock Costacos, two brothers from Seattle better known as the Costacos Brothers, who completely changed the rules of what a sports poster could be in the 1980s.
The Costacos Brothers turned each poster they made of an individual player into an event. The posters came to define players. It accentuated their greatest traits and turned the players into larger-than-life icons.
Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco were The Bash Brothers, dressed up in an homage to The Blues Brothers while holding giant bats. Brian Bosworth’s poster had the tagline "The Land of Boz," with a fully re-imagined Wizard of Oz cast surrounding him.
Kirk Gibson was the Big Game Hunter, Lawrence Taylor was The Terminator, Kevin Mitchell was Bat Man. Being on a Costacos Brothers poster was a career achievement for most players; it catapulted the player into the mainstream and onto the walls of many kids at home. As Charles Barkley once put it: “The poster made you cool. You didn’t make the poster cool.”
When I reached out to John Costacos to speak with him about the sports poster industry, he had a quick-witted response as to why the creativity no longer exists. “Because we’re not making them,” Costacos told VICE Sports.
For Costacos, it’s a chicken-or-egg question. He wonders if great sports posters aren’t being made anymore because kids are no longer buying them, or if kids aren’t buying posters because they’re no longer great.
Flagg has a more pragmatic explanation for where the industry is going. “The licensing agreements with leagues are onerous and complicated,” Flagg said. “The process is expensive, you need lawyers, the leagues demand huge guarantees. The little guys have very little chance to get into the market.”
The Costacos Brothers sold their company in 1996, and faded from the sports poster industry as well. But they made a brief comeback in 2016, when they teamed up with Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson for a throwback poster with Wilson in combat gear and the tagline "Armed and Dangeruss."
The idea came to John when he was watching Wilson from his couch at home. He called up Wilson’s agent, ideas were bounced around, and eventually a photoshoot was set up. During the photoshoot, Wilson was energetic, and went the extra mile, even sending one of his assistants to go outside to collect some dirt, so it could be mixed into a bowl with water and oil to allow him to run it over his arms for extra effect.
John got a kick out of seeing how well-versed Wilson was with the history of the Costacos Brothers posters. After the photoshoot, at a fundraiser for Wilson’s Why Not Foundation, two copies of the poster were auctioned off for $30,000 each. John’s favorite moment of the evening was when Wilson took a photo with Steve Largent and Bosworth, who held up their own Costacos Brothers posters, shot in 1986 and 1987, respectively.
While John would love to make a return to the industry, he recognizes that times have changed. Today, players don’t need an iconic poster to help further their brand, not when social media is available for them to curate an image with their fans, with the assistance of a group of publicists who are meticulously trying to fine-tune every detail about the athletes they represent. And if that doesn’t work out, there’s always a chance to pen an essay on the Players’ Tribune.
Still, the lack of creativity is disappointing to John. He believes the industry should demand more of themselves. Just as other industries have evolved, with today’s technological advances with cameras and digital editing, posters should be taking the next step, too. “Nobody would make a car today without airbags and all the extra features,” he said. “The modern car is way better than what was being made [years ago].”
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Posters are not in Kansas anymore, either. Image courtesy of Costacosbrothers.com
Ironically, there are more posters available now than ever, according to Flagg. There’s just a distinction between quantity versus quality. “It’s not a dying market,” he contends, although when most customers reach out, they’re not looking for the latest bland poster design of LeBron James; they’re trying to track down iconic posters from years ago. To this day, Flagg still gets calls about the availability of the Michael Jordan “Wings” poster.
“There’s no growth in it,” Flagg said of the industry. “We haven’t had growth in ten years. The market is still there, but it’s not where it used to be.” In response, Flagg has shifted some of his business focuses toward selling fitness charts, a popular purchase for local gyms, and motivational posters, which is a bestseller as well.
John gets nostalgic when he thinks about the heyday of the Costacos Brothers. One thing he misses the most is taking some of his friends' kids to the warehouse, giving them an empty box, and telling them to fill it up with as many posters as they wanted. “I didn’t care if their moms called me later because now there were a thousand thumbtacks on their walls,” he said, laughing. “A lot of these kids, I’ll run into them now and they’ll still talk about it.”
Would anything inspire John to make a permanent comeback in the sports posters industry? “If I could make a poster and it becomes a thing that the kids want on their wall, that’s what would motivate me,” he said.
Growing up, Griffin was one of those kids. He boarded up his entire room with posters, whether it was a full-sized poster of the 1992 Dream Team, one of Vince Carter’s between-the-legs dunk at the 2000 dunk contest, or just every single poster he ripped out from his SLAM Magazine collection. “My whole wall,” Griffin said, “from floor to ceiling, was just basketball pictures.”
Today, though, it’s less likely that the kid growing up dreaming of being Griffin at the dunk contest will have that kind of wall. It’s more likely one of his famous posterizations will show up as their iPhone background, or Macbook screensaver. Or, they’ll just go online and pull up a dunk compilation on YouTube.
“Times have changed,” Griffin said.
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A Requiem for the Sports Poster
Blake Griffin probably remembers every memorable dunk in his career. Timofey Mozgov. Pau Gasol. Kendrick Perkins. The Kia he jumped over to win the 2011 dunk contest. It’s a long list, but because those moments are played on endless loops during highlights, dunk compilations, GIFs, YouTube videos, and many other digital forms online, they’re hard to ignore, for Griffin or the average fan.
But finding those moments, the ones that sports fans and announcers frequently call “posterizations,” on an actual poster? That’s much more difficult today. “It’s different now,” Griffin told VICE Sports. “Growing up, I had posters. Now, kids can just go to YouTube to watch your highlights. The mixtape might be the new poster now.”
Michael Wilbon is credited with the earliest use of the term, in a 1991 Washington Post article, when he described Sam Perkins getting out of the way of a Michael Jordan dunk to avoid being “posterized.” Nearly 30 years later, when a thunderous slam dunk happens in a game, like when LeBron James threw down arguably the best dunk of his career recently on Jusuf Nurkic, social media accounts still rush to proclaim that another player has been put on a poster.
But they’re not actually being put on posters anymore. As the world has become more digital, the value of owning a permanent, physical item seems to matter less and less. We’ve seen this with music, where CDs have been replaced by streaming services. Just a decade ago, purchasing DVDs and Blu-rays was still a thing for collectors, and while they may persist today, every television show and movie is also just a click away.
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Bismack Biyombo, not actually posterized. Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports
Neil Flagg is the founder, president, and CEO of Sports Poster Warehouse, which markets itself as “the world’s one-and-only sports poster specialty store.” Flagg, a huge sports fan and sports poster fan growing up, launched his company in 1997.
“Like everything in the modern age,” Flagg told VICE Sports, “markets are fragmented. There are so many different products out there. There’s nothing that everyone needs to have. There’s a fragmentation of culture. People aren’t unified by any one thing anymore. In the internet age, everybody likes something different. Everybody is into their own thing. It’s more of an individualistic culture.”
Flagg remembers the joy of hanging up posters of his favorite sports moments in his room growing up, including Paul Henderson’s series winning goal over the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summit Series, one of the most iconic moments in Canadian sports history.
Michael Jordan’s “Wings” poster and Bo Jackson’s “The Ball Player” posters are among Flagg’s personal favorites. He also has an affinity toward Marketcom’s classic white-borders posters, which you could order from the back of Sports Illustrated magazines in the 1970s and 1980s.
A lot of these vintage posters, which have been out of print for years, are still available on Flagg’s website, thanks to years of sourcing original posters from sporting goods stores that were shutting down and liquidating their inventory, or taking advantage of other opportunities to purchase vintage collections from sellers.
“The mixtape might be the new poster now.”
Flagg disagreed with the original premise of this story, which was the death of the sports poster. “I wouldn’t say there’s a death of sports posters,” Flagg said. “But there’s definitely been the death of the iconic sports poster.”
Aside from his theory that posters are no longer a cultural event, Flagg pointed to the monopolization of the poster industry as something that has created little to no incentive for anyone to want to be creative with their poster designs.
Today, posters—of sports and pop culture variety—are mostly produced by Trends International, a private company based out of Indianapolis. They’re the company that stocks posters at big-box stores like Walmart and Target. The market is no longer filled with individual people who can express themselves creatively.
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Your bedroom wall, the final frontier. Image via Costacosbrothers.com
When it comes to creativity in the poster business, nobody did it better than John and Tock Costacos, two brothers from Seattle better known as the Costacos Brothers, who completely changed the rules of what a sports poster could be in the 1980s.
The Costacos Brothers turned each poster they made of an individual player into an event. The posters came to define players. It accentuated their greatest traits and turned the players into larger-than-life icons.
Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco were The Bash Brothers, dressed up in an homage to The Blues Brothers while holding giant bats. Brian Bosworth’s poster had the tagline “The Land of Boz,” with a fully re-imagined Wizard of Oz cast surrounding him.
Kirk Gibson was the Big Game Hunter, Lawrence Taylor was The Terminator, Kevin Mitchell was Bat Man. Being on a Costacos Brothers poster was a career achievement for most players; it catapulted the player into the mainstream and onto the walls of many kids at home. As Charles Barkley once put it: “The poster made you cool. You didn’t make the poster cool.”
When I reached out to John Costacos to speak with him about the sports poster industry, he had a quick-witted response as to why the creativity no longer exists. “Because we’re not making them,” Costacos told VICE Sports.
For Costacos, it’s a chicken-or-egg question. He wonders if great sports posters aren’t being made anymore because kids are no longer buying them, or if kids aren’t buying posters because they’re no longer great.
Flagg has a more pragmatic explanation for where the industry is going. “The licensing agreements with leagues are onerous and complicated,” Flagg said. “The process is expensive, you need lawyers, the leagues demand huge guarantees. The little guys have very little chance to get into the market.”
The Costacos Brothers sold their company in 1996, and faded from the sports poster industry as well. But they made a brief comeback in 2016, when they teamed up with Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson for a throwback poster with Wilson in combat gear and the tagline “Armed and Dangeruss.”
The idea came to John when he was watching Wilson from his couch at home. He called up Wilson’s agent, ideas were bounced around, and eventually a photoshoot was set up. During the photoshoot, Wilson was energetic, and went the extra mile, even sending one of his assistants to go outside to collect some dirt, so it could be mixed into a bowl with water and oil to allow him to run it over his arms for extra effect.
John got a kick out of seeing how well-versed Wilson was with the history of the Costacos Brothers posters. After the photoshoot, at a fundraiser for Wilson’s Why Not Foundation, two copies of the poster were auctioned off for $30,000 each. John’s favorite moment of the evening was when Wilson took a photo with Steve Largent and Bosworth, who held up their own Costacos Brothers posters, shot in 1986 and 1987, respectively.
While John would love to make a return to the industry, he recognizes that times have changed. Today, players don’t need an iconic poster to help further their brand, not when social media is available for them to curate an image with their fans, with the assistance of a group of publicists who are meticulously trying to fine-tune every detail about the athletes they represent. And if that doesn’t work out, there’s always a chance to pen an essay on the Players’ Tribune.
Still, the lack of creativity is disappointing to John. He believes the industry should demand more of themselves. Just as other industries have evolved, with today’s technological advances with cameras and digital editing, posters should be taking the next step, too. “Nobody would make a car today without airbags and all the extra features,” he said. “The modern car is way better than what was being made [years ago].”
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Posters are not in Kansas anymore, either. Image courtesy of Costacosbrothers.com
Ironically, there are more posters available now than ever, according to Flagg. There’s just a distinction between quantity versus quality. “It’s not a dying market,” he contends, although when most customers reach out, they’re not looking for the latest bland poster design of LeBron James; they’re trying to track down iconic posters from years ago. To this day, Flagg still gets calls about the availability of the Michael Jordan “Wings” poster.
“There’s no growth in it,” Flagg said of the industry. “We haven’t had growth in ten years. The market is still there, but it’s not where it used to be.” In response, Flagg has shifted some of his business focuses toward selling fitness charts, a popular purchase for local gyms, and motivational posters, which is a bestseller as well.
John gets nostalgic when he thinks about the heyday of the Costacos Brothers. One thing he misses the most is taking some of his friends’ kids to the warehouse, giving them an empty box, and telling them to fill it up with as many posters as they wanted. “I didn’t care if their moms called me later because now there were a thousand thumbtacks on their walls,” he said, laughing. “A lot of these kids, I’ll run into them now and they’ll still talk about it.”
Would anything inspire John to make a permanent comeback in the sports posters industry? “If I could make a poster and it becomes a thing that the kids want on their wall, that’s what would motivate me,” he said.
Growing up, Griffin was one of those kids. He boarded up his entire room with posters, whether it was a full-sized poster of the 1992 Dream Team, one of Vince Carter’s between-the-legs dunk at the 2000 dunk contest, or just every single poster he ripped out from his SLAM Magazine collection. “My whole wall,” Griffin said, “from floor to ceiling, was just basketball pictures.”
Today, though, it’s less likely that the kid growing up dreaming of being Griffin at the dunk contest will have that kind of wall. It’s more likely one of his famous posterizations will show up as their iPhone background, or Macbook screensaver. Or, they’ll just go online and pull up a dunk compilation on YouTube.
“Times have changed,” Griffin said.
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