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wasn't gonna post this but you guys make it too easy. to complain about something as trivial as poster of the week on dc-9's blog must seem petty but the fact is that whoever gets chosen for poster of the week gets some free press and promotion for their show. you would think the writer of this column might make a little more effort when choosing something that possibly hundreds (thousands?)of people will see. so, jesse, the best choice this week was really the above poster, which one of the dc-9 contributors designed? this column regularly sucks but this is the laziest post i've seen on this blog in a long time. there's nothing artistic about this poster. obviously you didn't see this piece of art promoting a show the observer most definitely will not be covering:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=24538753&albumID=2233611&imageID=58668330

explain to me how lance's poster is better than that one.

haha that poster suggested by anonymous sucks my balls

jesse's the one inviting comments on posters by highlighting his favorite one every week so why shouldn't we comment? but yeah slow work day, it's fucking friday! so what better is there to do but to scrutinize a poster designed by dallas' biggest pearl jam fan.

I think instead of waterboarding detainees the gov't should make them stare that poster that a member of Eat Avery's Bones kid drew. At least you stayed in the lines!

Chris, Pete's taking a few days off. He'll be back Wednesday.

i miss pete.

I agree , The Atoms are great. I first saw them when they did a residency at Dada back in 06'....but then I didn't hear much about em' after that. And BTW...whatever happened to Alamo Jet?

Just an FYI, we (The Atoms) broke up for a bit after 06 and just reunited. Thanks for the props and hope to see you all out on Saturday!

Rob

the wes hot jr poster sucks. and i am an avid reader of their site but everything matt does from eat avery's bones looks like it was done for by a special education elementary art student.

they just complained so they could promote their show in a backhanded manner.

The poster's a bit cliche, and the artist didn't even bother to typeset correctly. I really don't think it should've won, but don't know what was in the running... can we see what posters you had to choose from?

Well, the only time typesetting isn't that important is when the artist hand-draws the type. No hard feelings intended, it's everyone else's posts that made it seem like a contest, plus that's what I've heard from others... and it is a contest really because from what you've posted, you view many other posters and pick one that you feel is most appealing to you, and that's fine. I'm just saying that if you're going to judge a work of art, then all elements should be accounted for... such as typesetting, a MAJOR element of poster art. Look at all the previous posters, they are all typeset... Any artist or someone working for a publication can look at the poster and tell it has not been typeset... the O's, the D in Dammed, the G in Guns. It looks messy and not in a cool music poster way, it's lazy... as well as the art work. Sorry. You have your opinion and so do we, who bothered to post a comment:)That's what's great about what you've got going on with this non-contest. Keep it coming! It would be a nice gesture to all other artists if those simple elements are consistently being taken into consideration. Thanks!