I'm working on a poster for the gay indie club Pie&Mash, that I DJ'd at on Friday. As Pie&Mash usually feature a cow on their posters and I'm into mythical beasts, I decided to do a slutty, gindie-boy minotaur.
As you can see from the original rough pencil drawing on the right, he was going to be holding copies of two classic indie-pop records, "The Queen is Dead" by the Smiths and Blondie's "Parallel Lines" - but then I got worried about the legalities of using album artwork in the image, so I decided to have him holding a copy of Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulacrum". That kind of goes better with Pie&Mash's theme next month - cover versions and originals - and this minotaur can be (pseudo)intellectual, (g)indie and slutty all at the same time... why not? ;o)
Oh - and I just want to add that the term "gindie" (meaning "gay indie" - obviously) was coined by my good friend David Shah, former lead singer of gindie music band Luxembourg and currently the man behind The Melting Ice Caps - and you should check out their music on www.themeltingicecaps.co.uk
4 comments:
I would have loves to see Parallel Lines in his arms!!!! Cool!
Me too! Maybe next time - when I'm not worrying about potential legal issues for the client! xx
I can't tell which version I like best, the one with the spots or without. This is so cool!
Thanks Nathan... I decided to make him spotted because Pie&Mash usually feature a spotted moo-cow on their posters and flyers. But one day I'll probably do a non-spotted and hairier mino-gindie-boy.
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