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Like the burrito to the taco, gig posters (larger posters for music shows) are the larger, more respected version of the flier/postcard PR materials.

(Sorry, I've got my mind on tacos right now.) 

Anyway, gig posters aren't just CD store or bar room wallpaper anymore, they're now one of the most popular art forms in the Twin Cities.  Think that's an overstatement?  Take the recent poster art show at MCAD (where I almost got to chat with Robyne Robinson) and the reception for the Amy Jo Hendrickson show at First Amendment, which was one of the biggest gallery shows of the past year.

Hendrickson, like many poster artists, including Adam Turman and DWITT, has been doing wonderfully interesting posters that look cool and grab your attention.  And because the gig posters carry the cool caché of music shows and can be screen printed in limited runs -- but are still affordable art products for us empty-pocket art appreciators -- gig posters have become as common as shower curtains from Target. 

Here are some posters for France Has The Bomb, a band that has an awesome name and has awesome typical gig posters that feature only few colors and lots of condensed imagery:

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Images from gigposters.com, where you can buy your own poster art. 

Nope, not paper, it's microfiche.

These intriguing photos come from Mickey Smith, who's making a photo collection by combing through microfiche located in Minneapolis Libraries. Very cool.

(Oh. And in case you might be too young or have never worked in a Library, here's what it is.)

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Ephemera def. transitory written and printed matter

Here's a very interesting visual blog that I came across today: ephemerania. It's simply a collection of photos of found objects assembled together, sort of grouping visual pieces together.

On their own each bit is for the most part insignificant, but together they're a little bit scrap book, a little bit abstract, a little bit just weird. But cool to look at.

Here's another one:

If you put together the pictures from my stint at guest blogging, ephemerania is sort of what I think it might look like.

Click here to see more pictures.

(Oh, and not to be confused with the traveling art and fashion fun time of Ephemeral Space, which is also awesome and aesthetically appealing.)