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muddyshue

working on prints for Nashville and DC! atm it’s just a whole lotta gerard.

finalgirlguy

if giving in is pointless then get out of bed or this might be the end

maya the psychic – drugstore perfume

#flashing #video

whatsurdesign

oh. seems like there's been a printing error, that's not supposed to be there, uh... ANYWAY, WHO'S EXCITED FOR THE NEXT LEG OF THE TOUR?

+ the text in keposhka and english, turns out that they have pretty good language program in the M.O.A.T. (also this is all made up from the clues they've been dropping throughout the tour, mainly the sleep sequence during the PHANTOM show and some of the themes revolving vision)

maudelynn

I love the Bobbed Hair Bimbos c.1923 sheet music by Zeph Fitz-Gerald

via http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/

kmpostal

cockroaches

warbeneaththerain

i definitely ran out of time to do all the ones i wanted but there's always the next show... 9 trading cards for mcrnyc

gael-garcia

Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman

thecringeandwincefactory-deacti

Damn, son.

kommunistika

EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH SALT OF THE EARTH

em578

Salt of the Earth actually has a crazy interesting history- OP already said it was made in 1954, but that was in the middle of the Red Scare (communism scary cold war hysteria)

Congress’s anti-communism target fell hard on Hollywood, and those in the industry who were suspected of communism at all were blacklisted from all jobs, because studio’s didn’t want to face backlash from Congress

Salt of the Earth was made nearly 100% with blacklisted crew members from Hollywood, and had such difficulty finding actors that they hired local citizens and miners from the actual strike the plot is based on. There were only 5 trained actors involved, and one of them (Rosaura Revueltas, the woman in the gif) was deported to Mexico before they finished filming on accusations of communism, with no proof and no substance. The filming was plagued with police harassment and threats (according to my professor they were shot at more than once), and the local union hall was burned down.

The movie itself not only covers a real 1950′s labor strike demanding safer and more equal labor conditions for Mexican-American employees, but after the miners were facing arrest, their wives and children took up the strike in their place. The movie’s combination of blacklisted crew, civil rights and feminist message, and pro-union plot (during the red scare) got the movie blacklisted and only 12 theaters in the entire United States would show the movie- it was successful in Europe, but didn’t actually achieve viewership in the US until the 60′s

gael-garcia

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/10/salt-of-the-earth-labour-workers-blacklisted-filmmakers