Month: February 2021

Letterpress posters – Globe and Hatch

Globe Poster Printing Corp. was a Baltimore letterpress poster company that printed a large selection of concert posters. The company went out of business but their equipment is still operational. It’s at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. They are still making posters which are available here. They also made posters for the New York Film Festival with a design by John Waters and the Stax ’68 box set.

History of Globe – Globe at MICA

Globe Poster: An Illustrated History Of American Music : NPR

Nashville’s Hatch Show Print still makes posters, primarily for country music shows. They also do an annual BlobFest Poster. Their online shop is here:

Hatch Show Print Shop

This is a fine film about letterpress

Cruz went to Cancun. Ocasio-Cortez, O’Rourke and Castro helped Texans

QAnon now looks to March 4th

30% of Republicans have ‘favorable’ view of QAnon conspiracy theory: poll (businessinsider.com)

The Who’s sense of humor

Many early singles by the Who were very funny in an English sort of way. Their sense of humor was not American and the songs failed here. There’s “I’m a Boy” (1966) about a child made to dress as a girl, “Pictures of Lily” (1967) about porn, “Substitute” about not being what you appear to be. “Substitute” (1966) has the great line “I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.” The Who Sell Out (1967) album has radio commercials. Starting with Tommy, it seems like their sense of humor disappeared. The only exception was “Squeeze Box” (1975) which sounded like a throwback to their early days.

Columbia Pictures logo

Columbia Pictures logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG (1000logos.net)

Roundup on Texas power catastrophe

Ron Johnson lies about the insurrection

This is incredible. He’s saying we didn’t see what we saw. How can we negotiate or unify with people who won’t acceot reality?

Scorsese on the movie business, Fellini and English films

Scorsese’s essay is excellent. He points out what is lost when film is reduced to “content”. The essay focuses on Fellini. There’s a great new box set of most of his films from the Criterion Collection. I have also included this link to an IndieWire article on Scorsese’s favorite English films. It’s a fine list but doesn’t include the Ealing comedies such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Man in the White Suit. It does have Hammer horror films. Maybe he assumed the recipients had seen them since they are better known than most of the films on the list.

Scorsese’s list of essential foreign films which is referred to in the thread above

100 Best British Films: The full list – Time Out London (archive.org)