November, 2009

MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI / THE MOMENT OF CUBISM / 28 NOV 2009 - 23 JAN 2010 / MICHAEL LETT

By: Phantom | 24 November, 2009
THE MOMENT OF CUBISM Poster Photo

A woman being bundled into a taxi by two men; a lion and a lioness in their cage at the zoo; the imprint of a hand near Le Corbusier's modular man; the photograph of Guevara's corpse in a stable, surrounded by a colonel, a U.S.

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World Buskers Festival Has Online Preview

By: Phantom | 17 November, 2009
World Buskers Festival Poster

This summer's World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand is now previewed online for people keen to get the most from the entertainment on Christchurch's streets during the 11 day event.

The official 2010 World Buskers Festival website has been launched www.worldbuskersfestival.com with details of all the performers attending the festival, as well as a schedule of when and where around Christchurch they will be performing.

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Chicago Poster Run

By: Jim Wilson | 17 November, 2009
Photo from the Chicago Poster Run

There's lots of things to think about with a headful of the Blues in the Windy City: The failed Volstead Act and how that applies in this day and age with drugs, 'Hinky Dick' Kenna, 'Bathhouse' John Coughlin and other crooked Politicians ("Vote early...and Vote often), Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale and the 1968 Democrat Party Convention along with its subsequent riots, Oprah and the failure of television, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Robert Johnson, Tom Petty's excellent album "Live in Chicago", the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Belushi and the Blues Brothers, John Dillinger

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NZ & US Poetry takes on the world!

By: Phantom | 10 November, 2009

An initiative by Phantom Billstickers* to provoke some thought, while putting some beauty back into the world's streets, has seen POEM POSTERS featuring poems by New Zealand and American poets plastered all over New Zealand as well as Sydney, Paris and several American cities including Nashville, Knoxville, Portland, Seattle, Chicago and Philadelphia.

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World Famous in NZ... & Cookeville, Tennessee

By: Jim Wilson | 5 November, 2009

Herald-Citizen Archives

Local writer has poetry featured in New Zealand

Author: Megan Trotter Herald-Citizen Staff Date: June 25, 2009

COOKEVILLE -- Jeffery McCaleb has never been to New Zealand, but he currently has one of his poems displayed there on a poster as a part of an exhibition by national poster company Phantom Billstickers. It all started while he was taking a class at Nashville State Community College in Cookeville.

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The New Zealand International Arts Festival has announced its programme for 2010.

By: Phantom | 4 November, 2009

MEDIA RELEASE New Zealand International Arts Festival Announces Programme for 2010 Festival

From legendary sitar player, Ravi Shankar, to acclaimed conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy the New Zealand International Arts Festival will present the best arts the world has to offer from 26 February to 21 March.

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Seattle and Portland Poster Run October 3rd-5th 2009

By: Phantom | 4 November, 2009
Photo from the Seattle and Portland Poster Run

I'm writing this on the eve of Guy Fawke's night and yet I did this poster run a month back in early October. I flew to Seattle and the shuttle bus driver became lost getting me to a Holiday Inn. That's strange. She also managed to incur the wrath (held back, breathing changed) of several other passengers as she went past their stops. That's weird. Why would a person do that? I felt incredibly diplomatic as a Kiwi and we always feel the need to patch things up. I did. That's laborious.

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