#ska flier

[ameltzerdesign]

Sprout @ Amittyville Music Hall - 11.25.2022

Weirdest/most fun job of 2022: Recreating the Misfits reunion poster from scratch for my friend JT. Fonts were matched. Guidelines were used. Jokes too offensive and/or self-deprecating to put on a poster were exchanged via text. Emails falsely accusing openers of serious(ly comical) crimes were sent at 5am.

Anyway, I’m super professional and you should give me money.

[chopprface]

ive been playing an absurd amount of risk of rain lately and ive started to wonder about a BW au where they ended up on petrichor V (maybe the preds replacing the contact light and the maximals replacing safe travels?) so heres my altmode ideas for the cast

rattrap: blind vermin > spitter

depth charge: one of the wandering vagrant variants (maybe the juveniles from the first game)

inferno: beetle guard (megatron has the queens gland?)

megatron: scorch wurm > magma worm > gilded wurm

dinobot: elder lemurian (dinobot II can be acrid cause i love acrid)

optimus primal: stone golem > stone titan > aurelionite (he fuses with him instead of prime)

tigatron: mini mushrum

airrazor: swift/alloy vulture

tigerhawk: kur ska the heretic (idk just makes sense to me)

cheetor: wisp > greater wisp > ancient wisp

rampage: void devastator (sand crab could work too but i wanted him to be a boss to point out his power)

blackarachnia and tarantulas: mechanical spiders

waspinator: aspid

terrorsaur: blind pest (different from vermin, pests are fliers)

quickstrike: lemurian calvary

silverbolt: evolved lemurian

scorponok: sand crab

ravage: imp

rhinox: bighorn bison

i mightve forgotten one or two of them.. oops

[murder-party]

@westsiderebellion is hitting the road starting TONIGHT Friday 11/17 WE’RE at @tiptopdeluxebargrill in GR with @thekrankdaddies and @themushmen 🏴🖤 #westsiderebellion #wsr #outlaw #hardcorepunk #punkrock #punkhardcore #thrash #hardcoremusic #punx #rockabilly #psychobilly #skapunk #folkpunk #metal #ska #livemusic #lexington #lexingtonkentucky #lexingtonky #grmi #grandrapids #michigan #kentucky #art #flier #gigposters #lowbrowart (at Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill)

[madamlaydebug]

Rise in power and travel with the ancestors.

My Brother TOOTS of the legendary group called, Toots and the Maytals.

Its is said, "he invented or popularized the name, "REGGAE" and he was considered the Jamaican 'JAMES BROWN' by most in the Ska era...because of his high energy performance.

This was a Pioneer, a Gentle Soul, and a very fun Loving Human being...

I recall, anytime we'd work together on shows or see each other after various shows...it was always jokes, laughter and good vibes.

The 2 pics below....the 1st pic was after a show we did at the Legendary, 'TRAMPS nite spot (downstairs in the VIP Backstage area)... and the 2nd pic/flier was a show I emceed and promoted for Roseland Ballroom...NYC.

He will be truly missed. The Creator has him now. Love and Light always.

[quitethepirategal]

Actually Imma just list my Favorite Plots and AUs

( all of this is stolen lmao ( except for 4, 18, 20, and 25 ))

fake dating/engagement.

A, a historian, finds something odd in their records. the same face,  accompanied with variations of the same name, keeps emerging in  paintings, drawings, woodcarvings and documents, from a span of several centuries. it looks suspiciously like B, their assistant.

we’ve been sitting in this airport next too each other and despite being total strangers we started just idly chatting. but by the time we really began talking, something horrible and tragic unfolded ( natural disaster/airport was attacked/we boarded the plane, took off, and then crashed etc. ) how the hell are we gonna survive this? please stay close i feel safe with you...

my friend talked me into playing a drunken game of spin the bottle even though we’re all adults and now we have to make out. hours and many bad decisions later last night was a haze for both of us and somehow we woke up hungover in a bed that isn’t either of ours and also neither of us recognize this apartment we should probably get out of here before someone calls the cops on us.

we both decided to take a ( yoga/fencing/cooking/etc ) class and  we’re the only two assholes not taking it seriously and everyone else is giving us dirty looks but we keep grinning over at each other.

we take the same elevator every day and one day it gets stuck.

you’ve been sleeping at mine because your house is being renovated and  we aren’t even dating, yet every time you wake up to the baby crying and   sigh, “i’ll go” i feel like we might as well be married.

A, a villain, gets injured and loses their memory and the hero, B,  finds them and takes them with them and takes care of them and A gets their memory back after like a week but doesn’t want to say  anything because B is being so nice to them and nobody has been that nice to them in so long and they don’t want it to end and  they’re maybe getting fond of B but don’t tell anyone shhh. but  eventually something happens and B is in trouble and they’re trying to get A to run away because they still think they’re an amnesiac with no idea how to defend themself and they’ve grown to like them and don’t want them to get hurt but A just pushes past them toward whatever is trying to hurt B and just fuckin goes guns blazing and destroys them.

sexy, tension packed sparing.

A is the most eligible bachelor in the county. A, intentionally or not, insulted B, leading B to loudly announce that they would rather not marry at all than to marry A. with their pride wounded, A is determined to court B to make them change their mind, with intention of then casting B aside. only, no one has ever really challenged A before, and they can’t help being intrigued by B. 

i’m really passionate about this cause and I will give you this flier if i have to shove it down your throat.

i’m a prince/ss and you’re a servant or knight and we’re not supposed to hang out but we’re gonna fall in love anyways.

teach me to kiss/fuck.

A is having plumbing troubles in their new house and B says they can fix it: except they can’t, they just wanted to spend more time with the cute neighbor. ( bonus if A has to spend the night at B place because of it ).

A is a royal who runs away because of an arranged marriage, befriends a gang of outlaws, falls in love with one of them, B, only to find out B is  actually the other royal A was supposed to marry, who also ran away.

i’m in a ( punk/ska/retroelecto/etc. ) band and you’re in an orchestra.

A is a dragon billionaire who holds contests and wagers constantly to see who can steal the most money from them without getting caught. if you succeed you get to keep what you steal. B comes in with the intent to steal their heart.

A is secretly not human ( vampire/werewolf/faerie/merfolk/alien/etc. ) and B is secretly an ( etc. ) hunter and neither are aware of the other’s secret despite the fact they have been together ( dating/courting/engaged/married/coworkers/etc. ) for a few weeks now.

I’m curious, you’re questioning, we can do gay shit in secret????

A isnt human but looks human, never been to the human world. B stumbles upon them somehow, and ends up showing A around ( B can know A isnt human or A can keep it a secret. either works )

rival teachers

rival artists

rival thieves

...rivals.

you’re a sex worker, i’m a customer. we had a few sessions now and then about five years ago but eventually we stopped seeing each other and I haven’t heard from you since... until this morning, in which I ran into you at this obscure place I like and aw! you have a five year old kid now! congrats! they kinda look like you but they look a lot more like- wait a minute.

[sayburgundy]

Evak Apartment Wall

An overview of the items on Even and Isak’s wall. This list is by no means complete, and I would love your help to finish it off! If you can distinguish anything further please feel free to add to this post. (NB: Sketches and doodles not included in this list unless they are specifically relevant).

Clearer images and descriptions under the cut. (Warning: Some nudity within.)

1. ‘Persepolis’ Comic Strip

TEXT READS: We looked… from every direction … and from every angle… but not a single part of her body was visible. We nevertheless learned to draw drapes. “Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution” [+more]

2. Unknown comic 

3. ‘Fellini’s Satyricon’ (dir. Federico Fellini) Film Still

“In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he goes with, chooses Ascilto. Only a sudden earthquake saves Encolpio from suicide. We follow Encolpio through a series of adventures, where he is eventually reunited with Ascilto…” Themes: homosexuality & suicide. [+more]

4. MT Hammed Band Flier “Norway’s oldest SKA band, MT Hammed started in Oslo in 1989.” [+more]

5. ��Ideers” (Ideas) Newspaper Clipping - Subject Unknown

6. Newspaper Sex Worker Ad Titled ‘Prince’ // Unknown Painting (?)

7. ‘Friends’ by Nas & Damian Marley Lyrics LYRICS ON POSTER: Keep your vision clear cause only a coward lives in fear. HOOK LYRICS: Of the real friends that serve you long / your memories might fade / real friends will serve you long / sunshine or rain / real friends will serve you long / acquaintances will fade / your real friends won’t do you wrong / real friend don’t change [+more] [+listen]

8. A picture of a goat (?) on a road ((literally why, isak,,))

9. Drawing of George Costanza from ‘Seinfeld’

TEXT READS: “When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy.” [+clip]

10. ‘Melencholia’ (dir. Lars Von Trier) Film Poster/Still

“On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire, Justine’s sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.” Themes: depression, existentialism. [+more] [+nerdwriter video essay]

11. Rules of Dogme 95 {credit to @darker-sooner for this one!} “Dogme 95 was a filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.” RULES OF DOGME 95 FILMMAKING: Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.) The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).Optical work and filters are forbidden.The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.) Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now). Genre movies are not acceptable.The film format must be Academy 35 mm. The director must not be credited. [+more]

12. ‘Alt Er Love’ (Everything is Love) Newspaper Clipping ((y’all know this one))

13. “Quiz Dan” Photo

((who is he????)) UPDATE:

14. Unknown Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip {shoutout to @coolauntskam and their Evak and Hobbes series!!}

15. ‘Frances Ha’ (dir. Noah Baumbach) Film Still

“Frances lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.” [+more]

16. Even’s Drawing to Isak from S3Ep7

17. Isak/Even Portrait Fan Art {Tusen takk to @monstermonstre and thesestonehills for tracking down the artist for me!}

UPDATE: Art by Pernille Eleonora Dieckmann

18. ‘Don’t Worry, I’m from the Internet’ Meme [+more] ((@isak valtersen this meme is seven years old why are you like this))

19. ‘Basura’ Photograph (or photocopy) of Jonas (?) {thank you to @aterminalcase for the translation of this word!}

Basura translates to ‘trash’ or ‘garbage’ in Spanish. 

20. Unknown Hamburger Cartoon

[dalehauskins]

Once upon a time black and white dispersed concert fliers of Los Angeles suspenders wearing guitarist good old days Dale, as a member of a renowned busy gigging, original ska band The Specs from Riverside, California. I played, and recorded guitars on The Specs first album "Changes to the Few" (1995) it was only released as a cassette, plus on a various ska compilation "California Ska Quake" Vol. 1 CD/Cassette (1992) , along with my dear talented friend lead singer Mike Menchaca @michael.menchaca of Ventura's Legalizer singer, co-songwriter, trumpet player. __________ “The Specs were an up tempo third wave ska band that also incorporated reggae into their sound. It all amounted to a lot of skankin' and a lot of fun. Back then Sublime "featured" Brad, No Doubt was packing back yard parties with easily 100 high school kids in Anaheim. Fishbone @woodywoodstraw was the greatest thing to come out of Compton at the time to allow us the privilege to open for them including the Skatalites”.-The late fantastic drummer Scott Hamilton Wylie (front left) that left us all too soon in January 2016 of the original Specs. ______________ I couldn't have had better band mates, friends, experiences and memories from this period of my life. ______________________ #californiaska#ska#Westcoastska#reggaeville#socalska#skasnotdead#SanDiegoMusicScene#socalreggae#LAska#Calireggae#losangelesmusic#sounddiego#thespecs#Californiamusicians#studiolife#805Music#OCSka#SantaBarbaraMusic#LAMusicScene#sandiegoreggae#SoCalMusicians#ReggaeGuitarist#sessionguitarist#losangelesmusic#orangecountymusic#skamusic#Californiareggae#ThirdWaveSka#SkaCore#LosAngelesGuitarist#MusiciansLife (at Santa Monica, California) https://www.instagram.com/dalehauskins/p/BwvAPNSg98g/?igshid=vbwmhql7eo33

[sneakyjames]

Marley Natural - International Reggae Day Mix - Isis Swaby + Addis Pablo 2017 by ISIS SWABY International Reggae Day Mix For Marley Natural ISIS SWABY ft. ADDIS PABLO We are presenting the International Reggae Day Mix for Marley Natural. We are planning to do more live performances and music together. Currently, I am working on a reggae party called Peppapot Sundays (Summer Series) created by Melinda Griffith with DJ Sanctus and I at Lovers Rock in Bedstuy and first Sundays DJ Residency at Pianos (Upper Level). As well, I am working on a series of photos called RAS for a zine and photo exhibition. My first exposure to reggae was through my father and it is the first form of music that I learned about as a youth. I selected and mixed an array of reggae artists, I truly enjoyed listening to since I was a youth which ranges from my father, Augustus Pablo production and Rockers International Artists such as Delroy Williams and Jacob Miller. It's my pleasure to introduce this mix for International Reggae Day with my brother, Addis Pablo for Marley Natural. My heart lives in reggae and it truly inspires me in everything I do in my life from my music productions, art and performance. Reggae gives life to things that may be melancholy. My experiences in reggae music was through my mother and father, Augustus Pablo. I was immersed in roots reggae, ska, lovers rock, dub, sometimes dancehall when a classic made it to America. Info for flier: Mix by Isis Swaby ft. Addis Pablo International Reggae Day - Selection & Mixed by Isis Swaby Featuring: Addis Pablo, Xana Romeo, Ulo, Mr. Williamz, Lila Ike, Jesse Royale, Exile Da Brave, Kazam Davis, Blvk H3ro, Jah 9, Marla Brown, Micah Shemaiah, Keida, Midnite, Junior Delgado and more emerging reggae and classics tracks. Track List Addis Pablo Intro Addis Pablo - Mystical Powa meets Idren Natural (Dub Version) Xana Romeo - Mercy Please Delroy Williams (Rockers International) - Think Twice Samory I - Rasta Nuh Gangsta Jesse Royal - Modern Day Judas Mr Williamz - We Run England Ulo - Real Yute Exile Da Brave, Kasam Davis, Infinite - Rock Dem (Riddim Medley) Midnite - I Chant Kazam Davis - What Kind of World Junior Delgado - Raggamuffin Year Dennis Brown - Revolution Israel Vibrations - Cool & Calm Damien Marley ft.Stephen Marley - Medication Lila Ike ft Addis Pablo - Burn Marijuana Blvk H3ro ft. Leno Benton - Skydive Ras G & Riddim Colony ft. Micah Shemaiah - Lion’s Way JAH 9 - Avocado Dezarie - Gone Down Jacob Miller - Tenement Yard Kelissa - Keep My Head Up Marla Brown - Better Days Lila Ike - Biggest Fan Xana Romeo - Rate Rasta Garnett Silk - Fill Us Up with Mercy Azizzi Romeo - Grow My Dread Shanique Marie - Suga Dumplin’ Horace Andy - Skylarking Keida - Stand for Something Addis Pablo - Universal Dub Addis Pablo Outro http://ift.tt/2sw2qZH http://ift.tt/1hf71oD June 30, 2017 at 03:13PM

[kylegoodmanuca-blog]

If you lived through punk’s heydey, or any of the subcultures that reverberated down from its birth to echo into the mid-aughts, you probably came across more than a few of them. Variable in quality, self-printed, gratuitously niche, and often full of self-referential winks, zine culture existed at a precise moment when computers were becoming more common, but social networks hadn’t yet made the notion of communicating with your peers on paper irrelevant. They mixed DIY culture and nascent technology with music and art. You sent away for them, hoarded them, and published your own responses, even if you were a high schooler imagining a culture thousands of miles–and probably a decade or two–away from your own.

They were outsider design. But the zines, fliers, and posters produced by punk and its associated subcultures were hugely influential to design practice itself, in ways that are only now, 40 years later, being given a closer look by historians and curators. Earlier this spring, a visual history of club culture published in the U.K. considered the impact of dance music on design. Vitra Design Museum is currently staging a show on the design of nightclubs in the ’70s and ’80s and how they influenced gentrifying global cities. And at Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan, the curator and designer Andrew Blauvelt is opening a comprehensive exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986, on June 16.

Blauvelt grew up in the Midwest and went to school at Cranbrook during the era his show reckons with. It shows: The exhibition’s publication is an oversized, three-part zine of sorts itself, printed on newspaper, that’s as fun to read as it must have been to put together. In it, he talks about the mood in design at the time. “[Punk was] an inescapable soundtrack that filled the air of painting studios in the days of the boom box, or one’s ears dutifully plugged into a Sony Walkman,” he writes. “I think a lot of graphic designers were influenced by [punk], because they were listening to the music in school, and buying the albums, and being part of that culture,” he adds over the phone. “You would have been exposed to a lot of this stuff. So it gets all mixed up, and I don’t think it’s really been untangled.”

Blauvelt’s show is doing the work of untangling it. The exhibit’s collection of graphic ephemera from the era investigates the visual strategies used by musicians, fans, and designers, too–from appropriation to influences from comics and social protest movements. It also suggests a fascinating framework for how the punk ethos influenced design history.

While the concept of “deskilling” in design–in which the computer democratized the tools of design and opened the profession to new experimentation and rule-breaking in the late 1980s–has been around for a while, Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die argues that process began well before computers, in the 1970s, when punk’s creative ethos began to permeate design culture. “The kinds of rule breaking that was happening aesthetically and typographically was being done because they couldn’t care less or they never learned the rules,” Blauvelt says. “That was highly influential on graphic design practice proper. People now talk about deskilling, but they usually reference that in terms of the personal computer and how it made everyone a designer . . . But punk does this before the computer.” After all, it was still the early ’70s when the type designer Wolfgang Weingart’s distinctive approach to “blowing apart” the rules of Swiss Style earned his work the popular moniker “Swiss Punk” (even if it was created by a professional).

Culled from the sprawling archives of punk ephemera collector Andrew Krivine, the pieces in Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die range from punk proper–like the work of Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols–to selections from Peter Saville’s work for Factory Records, Joy Division, and New Order and the Talking Heads’ album Remain in Light. The art for that 1980 classic was designed by band members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth along with Tibor Kallman. An image of the Himalayas, with a fleet of red warplanes foregrounded, graced the back side of the album. The art was created with the aid of early computers from what would become MIT Media Lab, and guidance from MIT technologists Walter Bender and Scott Fisher. Its use of computers sets it apart from many of the other pieces, but its underpinnings are the same; it’s a vivid mix of appropriation and agitprop created by a mix of trained and untrained designers.

“There’s a cultural permissiveness in that time period,” Blauvelt says of the mixing of high and low in this era. “You would be part of a culture and also be making the culture in all of its manifestations.”

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Diearrives accompanied by a constellation of other new exhibits and books that reckon with the same era, raising a simple question: Why now? Is it that the designers, curators, and critics who grew up during these years are finally old enough–and possessing of the cultural capital–to give punk rock the intellectual attention and curatorial space that an older generation hasn’t? Or is that we’re living in a time when sociopolitical mores mirror those of the late ’70s and ’80s, making this work relevant in a new way?

Rick Banks, the designer behind the book Clubbed, a compilation of the design culture of clubs from the ’70s to the ’90s, points to timing–and the fact that nightclubs and music venues, while less popular, are still important cultural hubs. “If you look at the numbers, clubbing is definitely on the down, but I think people want to show councils/property developers that club culture matters and is hugely important,” he writes. “I also think . . .  the right amount [of] years have passed to look back and be nostalgic. Especially when we are are seeing ’90s music being played in modern-day DJ sets.”

Blauvelt nods to the transgressive practices of the era, and how a younger generation of designers are now being influenced by the work. “There’s cultural permission to go into these spaces,” he says. Likewise, he adds, “I think there’s a lot of interest from younger designers in this period, even stylistically.”

Punk itself was remarkably short-lived, of course. In some ways, it was eclipsed by its ethos–and its visual strategies–which lived on in post-punk, house music, ska, goth, and a family tree of other descended genres. It also lived on in design, where rule breaking and DIY tactics became de rigueur in design schools and practice. You can still see its fingerprints in the maker movement, for instance–as well as in the net art movement and the resurgence of interest in New Wave design.  “Although punk may have been too fast to live,” Blauvelt writes early on in the show’s publication, “it was not, however, too young to die.”

Source:https://www.fastcompany.com/90175535/the-secret-history-of-design-and-punk

[ameltzerdesign]

Vic Ruggiero @ The Grassy Noll - 1.28.2024

Booked a semi-secret show with Vic from The Slackers at a speakeasy weed space named after the JFK assassination, so of course I had to do a conspiracy board full of in-jokes and It’s Always Sunny References…

[mentoburu]

If you're staying home on St. Paddy's Day or wanna double dose of ritmo! Catch us at the @markrestaurant Saturday - March 18 (9pm). Outside in the park! Call: 661-322-7665. Special Guest Marcos Reyes (WAR) on percussion! Flier by ERock! #mentoburu #themarkrestaurant #bakersfield #livemusic #datenight #downtownbakersfield #ska #musicalatina #latinalternative #reggae #salsa #cumbia #southernsanjoaquin #bandlife #bakersfieldmusic #localmusic #nochesdebaile #baile #pachanga #bakersfieldshows #bakersfieldnightlife (at The Mark Restaurant)

[heyitsgabexxx]

Homegrown with Link 80 with Nick Traina still on vocals. I don’t remember who the special guests were.

[galleryyuhself]

THE FOLK POWER OF JAMAICAN DANCEHALL SIGNS

By Amanda Petrusich

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on discarded slabs of splintering plywood, or on whatever else was freely available—direct passersby toward outdoor lots or indoor nightclubs, and list dancehall performers (Stone Love, Grenade, Beenie Man, City Beat, Super Force) and entry fees (usually between one and ten American dollars). Lettering is done in a vivid red, gold, green, or blue paint on matte black backgrounds, and is sometimes accompanied by a custom illustration, like a young lady, a heart, or a car. The signs promise blessings or guidance or free Jell-O shots. “Bikini Car Wash All Day.” “A Yah Suh Haffi Nice Fish Fry.” “Vibes.”

A new book called “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” which was published by Hat and Beard Press, gathers more than a hundred dancehall signs, all plucked by the collector Maxine Walters, a Jamaican film director and producer who has admitted to climbing “light posts, walls, bridges, down hillsides—I would go anywhere to reach and capture a sign that attracted my attention.” In the book’s introduction, the Jamaican novelist Marlon James writes, “If hip-hop’s visual language is graffiti, then dancehall’s visual language is the sign, the event poster—the notice that big t’ings a gwaan down di street.”

What might a person expect to find, were she to heed a sign’s beckoning? Dancehall, the musical genre, is different from a dance hall, the venue, though one was born in the other, and in the woozy untangling of any vernacular or folk tradition—especially in a country with a history as rich and multitudinous as Jamaica’s—even distinctions as material as these can begin to feel trivial. Musically, dancehall is a splinter faction of reggae, itself an amalgamation of ska, rocksteady, and mento (a playful acoustic folk music that’s often and easily conflated with calypso), along with jazz and rhythm and blues from America, especially New Orleans. It is created by sound systems, or groups of d.j.s and m.c.s with their own proprietary combinations of gear (generators, turntables, massive speakers). The foundational element is the riddim, an instrumental beat or backing track that an m.c. performs over.

Following the election of Prime Minister Edward Seaga, in 1980, Jamaica shifted from a socialist government to a more conservative regime, and early dancehall pioneers, sensing a cultural conversion, disregarded reggae’s themes of resistance in favor of more ribald notions. All the best dancehall songs are deeply lustful, and the genre routinely inspires the creation of new dance moves with evocative names: Wine and Dip, Tek Weh Yuhself, Whine Up, Boosie Bounce, Drive By, Shovel It, To Di World, Nuh Behavior, Skip to My Lou, Gully Creepa, Bad Man Forward Bad Man Pull Up, Pon Di River, Willie Bounce, Screetchie, and Daggering, to name but a handful. The combinations suggest, in literal ways, the various pleasures of the flesh; Daggering, in which rough sex is pantomimed, has been widely banned in Jamaica. Critics have identified misogyny, violence, and homophobia as hugely problematic elements of both the music and the culture, and dancehall is occasionally referred to, derisively and dismissively, as “boom-boom music.”

Periodically, dancehall threads its way into global pop music. Last year, its influence was especially palpable in the singles “Work,” by the Barbadian singer Rihanna, and “Sorry,” by the Canadian pop star Justin Bieber; both releases made it to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The rapper Drake, also from Canada, borrows from it frequently enough to inspire articles with titles like “Is Drake’s Dancehall Obsession Homage or Exploitation?”

In his book “Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica,” Norman C. Stolzoff called the genre “a multidimensional force, at once symbolic and material, that permeates and structures everyday life in Jamaica.” Flipping through “Serious Things A Go Happen,” there is a feeling of being made privy to an alternative but essential history of Jamaican street culture. Some of Walters’s acquisitions—she has now gathered more than four thousand signs—have been shown at galleries in New York and Hartford, Connecticut; in St. Mary, Jamaica; and at the Havana Biennial, in Cuba. It would be impossible for any book or exhibit to capture the true, humid spirit of dancehall events, but the signs, at least, convey some sense of their urgency and wildness.

Last year, powerHouse published “No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Fliers, 1988-1999,” a collection of downtown party posters yanked off staple-pocked utility poles and collated into a similar style of art book. Though both “No Sleep” and “Serious Things A Go Happen” were published by independent, visionary presses, institutional affirmations of folk or street art can still feel fundamentally incongruous. (This is also true of compilations of historical music.) The process of ratification is funny: the objective beauty in a benign or omnipresent object is recognized, and then the source material is curated and recontexualized. When it works best, the object is not just confusedly divorced from its intended utility but celebrated or enhanced in a way that allows it to become a storytelling tool—to help cohere a narrative.

Regardless, this can feel like a strange and high-minded tumble—a regular, everyday doodad denatured, turned into an objet d’art—and the process calls to mind the strange and high-minded tradition of Dada, an avant-garde movement that reconfigured art-making as lawless, petulant. Beginning in 1914, the French artist Marcel Duchamp used mechanically reproduced commercial objects for his so-called readymades, an instantly provocative series of found sculptures. In 1917, Duchamp laid a coatrack on the floor and titled it “Trap”; at its first showing, it went unnoticed as an art work. In a piece from 1964, titled “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” he hung a fifty-two-inch snow shovel from the ceiling of his studio. “An ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist” is how he explained it.

There is an element of Dada to “Serious Things A Go Happen”—these signs, lifted from the intersections where they were erected, take on new and more ambiguous meanings. Likewise, it is nearly impossible to identify or credit individual sign artists, just as it is very hard to discern who designed the snow shovel Duchamp carted home from the hardware store and reimagined as high art.

A limited edition of the book includes “a six color screenprinted reproduction dancehall sign on quarter inch plywood, along with a two inch nail for hanging.” The nail feels essential, somehow, to protecting the entire spirit of the thing—a built-in corrective for anyone looking to get too fussy about it. It also reëmphasizes a noteworthy parallel between the signs themselves and the outlaw ideology of the music. (“A session wasn’t a place for decent people,” James suggests in his introduction.) This is also true of Walters’s retrieval of the pieces, itself a kind of bandit scramble. Nothing about either process feels prim. Unapologetic impropriety was a central tenet of Dada; it feels present here, too.

I’ll admit it’s now tempting to eulogize these signs—which are beautiful—as one more casualty of digitization, another shift away from tactile pleasures. Of course, it’s old-fashioned to think this way. (In my more captious moments—during which I believe that the Internet is obliterating the only small but meaningful indulgences left available to us—I force myself to watch a particular “60 Minutes” segment, in which Andy Rooney shuffles around a supermarket produce section, muttering about the sorry state of fruit.) Perhaps several decades from now some enterprising archivist will curate a collection of Facebook invites—“I’m Interested: Birthday Rituals in the New Millennium”—that might prove just as evocative.

In the meantime, it’s important to remember that these sorts of ephemeral histories can be easily lost. The pleasure these signs promise—and what is an advertisement if not a suggestion of self-betterment? Why does anyone go to a party or a concert if not to maybe be changed completely?—is both undeniable and spiritually edifying. “All art attempts to cope with the environment by making sense of it and layering what the eye sees with what the brain interprets—exactly the case with the signs on display here,” the late Jamaican writer Tony Winkler writes in his afterword. “Look at them with both eye and brain. What you discover will surprise you.”

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Tjäna pengar utan pengar-reparera gräsklippare, ta en klippa för  dig själv

De flesta familjer dessa dagar letar efter något sätt de kan för att göra lite extra pengar utan att behöva lägga ut några pengar, om du är händig med små motorer varför inte starta en gräsklippare reparation företag?

Gräsklippare behöver mycket underhåll, särskilt när de sitter hela vintern lång. Det mesta av detta underhåll är ganska enkelt  såsom tune ups, dränering gas och ersätta den med färska, eller skärpning bladet. Ofta gånger  om folk inte tror att få dessa saker gjort och innan länge, enkelt underhåll blir dyrare och komplexa.

Detta lämnar dörren öppen om du vet hur man arbetar på små motorer som dessa, inte bara gräsklippare, men Gas Powered  ogräs ätare, snöslungor och någon annan typ av liten gas motor. Många människor vet inte hur man korrekt underhålla denna typ av utrustning och bara reklam underhåll ensam kan ge dig en bra inkomstkälla.

Om du har verktygen erbjuder blad skärpning tjänster, och även motor reparation, medan de flesta gräsklippare reparationer är enkla, kommer det att finnas udda motor som kommer att behöva bytas ut. När du gör lite pengar investera det i inköp begagnade klippare och annan utrustning som du kan föra tillbaka till livet och sälja för en vinst. Det finns en blomstrande marknad för begagnade gräsmatta utrustning ganska mycket någonstans du bor.

Bestämma vad du ska ladda dina kunder är lätt, ringa samtal till reparationsverkstäder runt ditt grannskap och fråga dem vad de tar betalt. Eftersom du kommer att vara ny i verksamheten, vara beredd att allvarligt underskred sina priser, kommer detta att hjälpa dig att få och behålla kunder, och eftersom du kommer att arbeta ut ur ditt hem, kommer din overhead vara låg ändå.

Du kommer att behöva ha ett garage med en anständig arbetsbänk och utrymme att arbeta, eller ännu bättre om du har en van eller lastbil kan du annonsera mobil reparation. Mobile Repair ger en ännu högre timavgift eftersom dina kunder befrias från ansvaret för att transportera sin smutsiga gräsklippare i ryggen av deras helt nya  SUV.

Det bästa sättet att annonsera ditt företag kommer att vara genom att värva din familj att passera ut Fliers runt kvarteret, lämna skyltar på telefoner och annonsera på din lokala livsmedelsbutik.

Eftersom detta är ett säsongsbetonat företag att hålla kunder är viktigt, försök att erbjuda dem extramaterial om du kan, som en fri oljebyte eller en lånad gräsklippare medan deras håller på att arbeta på. Små extramaterial som dessa tillsammans med en vänlig attityd kommer att hålla dem kommer tillbaka år efter år.

Om du behöver pengar nu, som jag menar i nästa timme, prova vad jag gjorde. Jag gör mer pengar nu än i mitt gamla företag och du kan också, läsa den fantastiska, sanna historien, i länken nedan. När jag gick med var jag skeptisk till bara tio sekunder innan jag insåg vad det var. Jag ler från öra till öra och du kommer också.

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Suitable 10 issues To do that Weekend in Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice

Fairs, free family activities and extra enjoyable activities in Sarasota and Manatee counties

1. Dub Fest JDub’s Brewing company's annual Dub Fest craft beer and tune back-bite aspects nationally acclaimed ska band lower than jake, from Gainesville, performing Saturday; after which Kiss accolade band Mini Kiss headlining an additional long agenda of usually native acts on Sunday. food vans encompass enviornment favourite Smokin’ mama Lora's BBQ and on Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m., the competition will host an newbie beer competition. 1-10 p.m. Saturday and 1-8 p.m. Sunday; Sarasota Fairgrounds, 3000 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota; $30 strengthen; $35 gate; weekend passes $55-$60 and VIP $50-$55 day, $ninety-$one hundred gate; 941 955-2739; jdubsdubfestm

2. Cole Swindell On Saturday evening, the Orioles will welcome platinum-selling country singer Cole Swindell for a."celebration in the Outfield." Swindell, whose hits consist of."spoil Up within the conclusion," "be sure you Be here" and."center of a reminiscence," will be joined by special visitors MacKenzie Porter and Carter religion Jones. 7 p.m. Saturday; Ed artisan amphitheater, 2700 12th St., Sarasota; $30, date front pit tickets offered out; 941-893-6300; oriolesmbounce

3. ArtSlam understand Bradenton’s tenth anniversary ArtSlam skill historical main road will once more be transformed into an interactive paintings area with numerous enjoyable actions for infants of all ages. The chargeless event elements are living performances, web page-certain installations and fascinating artwork exhibits via Manatee county students and expert artists. 9 a.m. to four p.m. Saturday; historical leading highway, Bradenton; free; 941-621-6471; realizebradentonm

4. Parrish heritage Day festival festivities kicks off with a array on 121st avenue at 10:30 a.m. after which at 11 a.m. gates inaugurate on the Florida Railroad building for the family unit-friendly enjoyable and chili cook dinner-off. in addition to the chili tasting, there may be train rides, rock mountaineering, live music with 4 bands, food and drink vendors and extra. 10:30 a.m. to four p.m. Saturday; Florida Railroad museum, 12210 83rd St. E., Parrish; $eight strengthen, $10 on the gate includes taste of every group's chili; parrishchilim

5. San Pedro neighborhood pageant Billed as north anchorage's largest three-day competition, this chargeless anniversary adventure hosted via San Pedro abbey comprises live song, carnival rides, festival meals, a market and a beer and wine covering. On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., stop by using for the motor vehicle and bike reveal. 5:30-eleven p.m. today, 10 a.m.-eleven p.m. Saturday and 12-7 p.m. Sunday; San Pedro catholic abbey, 14380 Tamiami trail, north port; chargeless acceptance; 941-426-2500; sanpedrocc

6. Cirque Ma’Ceo it's the ultimate weekend for Sarasota built-in's Olissio Zoppe’s Cirque Ma’Ceo equestrian exhibit, which is elevating cash for the nonprofit large Cat habitat & gulf coast altar. the ten-grownup creation comprises the Zoppe household’s signature bareback using, cossack-trend ambush driving and dressage; with acrobats, aerialists and jugglers assuming aloft and alongside the relocating horses. There’s also a VIP adventure provided. 6 p.m. today; 3:30 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday; big Cat abode & gulf coast altar, 7101 Palmer Blvd., Sarasota; $10-$45; 561-758-7851; cirquemaceom

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8. Manatee ancestry canicule Manatee ancestry days will rejoice its fortieth anniversary with a abounding time table of events during advance. routine actions include DeSoto national canonizing’s dwelling historical past application at affected Uzita Thursdays-Sundays, historic Valentine open house at Robinson retain Saturdays and the Jiggs landing launch condo Saturdays. The action acreage historic accompaniment park annual inaugurate condominium is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. For extra counsel, name 941-749-1800 or seek advice from manateeclerkm.

9. Wings Over Venice The RC Fliers of Venice are protecting their twentieth anniversary Wings Over Venice that includes radio-controlled model airplanes. There may be a candy drop for the little ones, food and drink, raffles and demonstrations around midday. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; important canton strong waste auctioning complex, 4000 Knights trail road, Nokomis; 941-244-0336; rcvenicem 10. Fruitville grove drupe Fest If, like us, you're a fan of Fruitville grove's anniversary attic festival, be certain to check out the equally fun drupe competition. There might be craft compartments, face portray, a bedrock wall, soar condominium, mini instruct rides, food, video games, bounce child animals on the grounds, an Easter egg coursing 2 p.m. every Saturday and a pie-eating contest at 2 p.m. each Sunday.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through march 17; Fruitville grove, 7410 Fruitville highway, Sarasota; free acceptance and chargeless parking; 941-377-0896; fruitvillegrovem discover greater featured events at ticketsarasotam.

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SubWoofers 2018 - yes we did that!

Since September my day to day life has consisted mostly of planning for May 6th and hoping that it’d be a success!

As team leader for marketing my main job was to get people through the door and get tickets sold. In the build up the online sales were slow but picked up as we managed to get some print material out. We were incredibly blessed to have the weather on our side for the whole weekend so the build and break of the site was easier than if we had pouring rain. The day before the event consisted of putting up fencing around the site - which was hard in the heat but everyone was very hard working and pulled through to get that up. 

On the day of the event I arrived at 7:30am with half of the team to begin final preparations for the event. This entailed setting up the box office, queuing systems, putting up signage and getting the remainder of stalls/traders/rides in. Having all the team there on the morning after 10:30 was really helpful as we managed to get everything together quicker! 

By 12 people were already arriving - even though we didn’t open until 1! The last hour until the opening was manic as final checks needed to be done and everything needed to be in place. Once we opened I stayed at box office to get people through the door quicker. Our pre-paid queue was moving very slow and we had a few disgruntled customers complaining. I managed to work out a new system that would then get the queue moving quicker. Once this was implemented the queue started to move and we got people through the door in a faster time. The main rush of people came within the first two hours and the site soon filled up.

The day seemed to fly by and it was already time for Ska Souls to take the stage. This was my favourite point during the day - a group of us all were by the stage and everyone was really happy and dancing along to them. It was also great seeing the crowd up on their feet dancing along to the music and enjoying themselves. 

Once they left the stage the site emptied and it was time for our break down. The production team organised this incredibly well and we all were put into smaller groups. This allowed us to get the site broken down before we left for the evening leaving us with less to do post event! 

From a marketing point of view throughout the build up to the event I was so worried that we wouldn’t get anyone through the door. Each sales update we would get would fill me with dread that the event wouldn’t be a success for the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. I couldn’t have been more wrong! Seeing the queues of people at 1pm working their way into site and the car park filling up made me feel like we had done a job well done!

We managed to get all our print out - that being banners, A0 boards, posters and fliers. We got posters up into shops and fliers handed out at train stations during peak hours. We managed to secure interviews on BBC Three Counties, Wycombe Sound and Marlow FM. We had a media partnership with Mix 96 who played an advertisement for SubWoofers in the last two weeks running up to the event. We engaged with Bucks Free Press, Bucks Herald, Wendover News and Hiya Bucks. All of them put us into their media. On the day - we had photographers from Bucks Free Press and Bucks Herald come to site and photograph. Helen from Hiya Bucks came along with her family and is going to cover the post-event on her platform. The Hearing Dogs got print out from their end too to volunteers and distributed at schools. Banners were placed at areas with high amounts of traffic. All of this was such a success as we managed 3,500 attendees through the door on the day - which is more than I could have ever imagined!

The only thing I would criticise myself on would to have grown more of a back bone to delegate the jobs building up to the event. I enjoyed being team leader so much but found it difficult to fully get through to people what I needed them to do. For the most part - half of my team were incredible at what they managed to achieve and I’m so proud of them!

SubWoofers was incredible and I am absolutely gutted I won’t be able to put it on again next year as it is my favourite thing I’ve done at uni in the last two years!!!