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HULKINGBEETLE
POSTERS& POEMS
Filling our pockets with ephemera // Issue One
Welcome to our first publication.
Each issue features two unrelated themes covering
even more disparate topics. In Posters & Poems, we
discuss guilt, the overwhelming charm of Eli Wallach,
sad Polish guy, Allen Ginsburg, bad relationships,
Gossip Girl, manuscript, George Michael, and on.
It’s a tall order, but we can take it.
Figure 1: Beetle larvae
MOVIEPOSTERSSUCK
Heads without bodies floatingin the sky. Girls with guns andlong legs. We’re bored withthe formula. These help uskeep the faith.
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Yes, we enjoy Eureka’s cover more thanCriterion’s. The text treatment is far moreinteresting than a mere screenshot. It’shard to tell in this picure, but the designworks the actor’s faces in also--becausewe know who butters our bread.
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Painted and illustrated posters get mad love aroundhere. Add handwritten text and just take us home.
None of the beetles have seen this filmand we have no idea how it relates to themovie--but the obscured eyes, mutedcolors, and gonzo, nigh unreadable, typemakes us eager. The movie is probablythe exact opposite of this poster. Noteven Fellini can overpower Poland’sendless supply of the blues.
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We would be so ecstatic over the text as a desk ifwe were not completely dedicated to that fan. Itfills in for all that’s missing in the room. Also, thatlovely, hand-drawn, comic caper style from somany 70s posters but without packing in everyshennanigan is S-U-C-C-E-S-S.
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How one movie can have so many greatposters is a mystery. This is a favorite though,mostly for the vivid colors. We prefer faketans to sickly green, cool, alien tones.
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Besides the curious illustration--what do yougrope when getting down with a bug?--we really love the title treatment on this one. MostJapanese posters get clutered with random text,but this whole damn thing is elegant.
Apologies to Eli Wallach (how we adore you!), butthis stance makes us heady. This is a hard title todesign--see a dozen or so previous, uninspiring examples--but the throwaway text placement getsa lot of respect without getting in the way.
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He’s Saul Bass.
ODESto
forgottenthings
Hanging above 20th street a slight
cord--stray dust on the mirror
when shooting the sky.
Cord sky and crane frozen
as workers sit along the walls below.
A truck goes through, now
a row of men stuck too
to sandwiches. Everyone attracted
today to the sidewalk pavement lunch cart
traffic. Someone looks up
to the dark sliver above and stops
low at the sign on 18th, the street
pulling them back in tow.
For me there is only this shadow
squinting will not rend clear. The air
How Gravity Works
returning to summer after teasing
throats. A rush of colds
and on the bus enough coughs
so there's nowhere to stand, but walk
home through the tide to your voice--
for a moment shining, then withdrawn.
He wobbled from a bad angle
and slid into the curb, wailing
tires and a fierce chorus
of horns. First a sprawl
of battered limbs in the gutter.
Now a curse
then a grin before recounting
how his skin stained
the concrete red and brown
with a glaze of pus hot
and clear as tears.
Finishes
I ran my hand along the wall
and said to my friend I found a nail.
Tried pulling it out, pushing it up
and turning it loose from the stucco
but the rust and the cream
paint and the metal stayed put.
I’m always playing with forgotten things.
I said I swore I felt this thing move
but maybe it’s just my bones—fingers
red from gripping and tugging. He said
you keep pulling at them nails
and the whole wall’ll fall, so I lean back
and pry and see if it gives.
On Break