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In my office, the moment I get real close to somebody that person would either get a transfer or quit. I have seen this happen so many times – with Yashwanth, Ravi, Jimmy, Senior, Chaina, Gambhir, Anshul, Shruthi, Sharat, Kajal, Sajeev, Johny, Kumz, Jose, Venky…Last month the curse crossed the road…Srini, a friend who works in an office near mine quit. This post is dedicated to him (and of course, to all the friends listed above).
It was Srini who introduced me to the world of ‘inspired posters’. And posters kept me going, perhaps more than anything else, through 2009. It also took up more time than anything else in 2009 – I became am IMPA addict, downloaded 15 years worth of posters, spent hours peering at thumbnails trying to identify ‘stuff that looks like other stuff’ (that explains the glasses), man, did I have a good time…
One of Srini’s early posts was about art-inspired posters. That sent me scurrying to my art books collection. I did find a few (perhaps farfetched) similarities…
Archimboldo
David Brinkley
William Hogarth
I also stumbled upon a painting by Degas, Spartan Girls Provoking Boys. Bingo! Doesnt that look like Goya’s famous massacre painting.
Edgar Degas. Spartan Girls Provoking Boys. c.1860-62
Francisco Goya. The Third of May. 1814. (flipped for comparison)
Googling for Goya brought me to the blind flaneur who had posted on Goya. I left a comment about the apparent similarities in composition, and the flaneur (love him) wrote on his site – “Babu has a discerning eye, and his website documents many resonances in contemporary visual rhetoric”. Wow, that sounds much better than ‘stuff looks like other stuff’.
So here goes…
Jai Shree Ram!
Adios Amigo!!
Stock Clearance Post! Have two more balposh posts in the pipeline…gonna give this a break after that. Promise!
Thanks Rohit.
PS: The DMK colour posters are not there on the movie website, perhaps a WIP. RIP!
That is Malayalam for cut & paste (Malayalam is, incidentally, a palindrome. See, you learned something new today). OK, coming back to Vettattam, the first time i saw the poster on the wall opposite Melody, I braked so hard the auto behind me almost went up my tail pipe. I knew i had seen it somewhere. Did a lot of IMP surfing, no luck, then today i stumbled upon TC Chandler’s fun site and guess what i saw…
Did you spot the similarities – the legs, the jugs, the grass, hey I can use a cig now…
Sorry sorry sorry. Couldn’t resist…
Last week Srinivasan Rajagopal who blogs about ‘plagiarism in the visual arts‘ linked to some posts I had done on movie poster/font rip-offs – and that set off a huge IMPA binge. I found a lot of stuff that looked like other stuff – rip-offs, tributes, parodies, whatever, and I decided to bite the blog that fed me a lot of traffic and start my own balposh section, blogging about stuff that looks like other stuff.
So, here goes (following Srini’s convention, the poster on the right came first)
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