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11:16 am - [Misspent Youth] Back cover art spec (real, non-hoaxy)

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So here is a spec request I made to Jennifer Rodgers for art for the back cover of Misspent Youth. We don't have sketches done yet but I'm really excited about this so I figured I'd share it.

A gang of 3-5 kids, in silhouette (possibly pure black like something out of Sin City, possibly something with some surface to it that we can see, I don't know). These kids are in a tight knot together, maybe some are riding skateboards or (better yet) hoverboards. Anyway they're all clearly running from left to right away from something off-screen to the left. Maybe someone is shooting a slingshot backwards or something. I see an interesting tension between their bodies moving in one direction and their attention being in the other (even if they're not facing in that direction, something about the set of the shoulders). I imagine a street sign of some kind slightly ahead of them and a grubby street. I'm figuring it would run along the middle edge or bottom of the page and take up all or almost all of the width of the page and about a quarter of the height of the page.

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From:[info]xenomouse
Date:May 7th, 2008 03:49 pm (UTC)
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Maybe something intifada inspired?
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From:[info]indie_insurgent
Date:May 7th, 2008 03:50 pm (UTC)
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That's edgy. I am interested! Thanks for the note.

*ponders*
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From:[info]dikaiosunh
Date:May 7th, 2008 04:09 pm (UTC)
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If you really want to offend people (sans cock), while the JAM's graphic design tends toward very non-punk flattering portraits of al-Sadr, Hezbollah has some spiffy stuff:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/646149.stm (scroll down)

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm (decent logo, for a para-state)

And Irgun's emblem might serve as inspiration for a sort of retro-militant look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

I kind of like the ANC logo, too. Though now I'm drifting far from the original point... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress

I've also got an exhibit book of Vietcong propaganda posters from the British museum that I'd be happy to let you borrow (I could mail it) if you were interested.

Unfortunately, thematically, few major insurgent movements have been run by anarchist kids. Most are at least as authoritarian as the folks they're fighting.
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From:[info]xenomouse
Date:May 7th, 2008 06:05 pm (UTC)
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The stuff you mention seems a little over the top. I was aiming for kids slinging rocks at a tank, waving flags, and other such stuff.
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From:[info]indie_insurgent
Date:May 7th, 2008 06:16 pm (UTC)
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Yeah that's what I thought you meant personally.
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