Jacob Pover

Jacob Pover - Graphic Design graduate interested in Design, Branding, Business and Strategy. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Alumni. Sales Associate and Member of The People's Supermarket.

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Grayson Perry 

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TRANSIT DISASTER BURNT OUT WHITE

Appropriations of appropriations, Turk’s Transit Disaster series re-cycles Warhol’s car crash paintings from the Pop Artist’s Death And Disaster series, which in turn were re-cycled from photographs of fatal accidents taken from newspapers. Except, rather than an American car, the vehicle in question in Turk’s work is the iconic white van, symbol of a certain white working class Britishness, now dying its own kind of slow death, as the UK moves into a post-industrial, multi-cultural era, where demand for them is beginning to diminish. Where Warhol’s “originals”, anesthetized violence through multiple reproductions in bright, saturated colours, so the Transit Disaster paintings become abstractions of abstractions, transforming horror into beauty and death into something striking and sexy as the deformed metal of the crashes become textures, patterns and shapes, with the notion of Britishness becoming the ultimate casualty.

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Young boys manning a refreshment trolley in Paddington station, 1910.

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This photo has meme potential.

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The Rat Pack Photo Shoot - Lost in Translation

"A-ring-a-ding-ding."

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File Sandwich Johnny Kelly

To see more of Johnny Kelly's work click here

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Magnificent Vertical Pan Production Background Painting For Sloppy Jalopy (UPA, 1952).

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Twitter Logo Comparison 

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Trans Antarctic Expedition: Tucker Sno-Cat Type 743 Double Drive Cat Stuck Half Way Across a Ice Crevasse - 1955

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Philip Jones Griffiths:

Northern Ireland (1973) Soldier with Bulletproof Shield.

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Calvin and Hobbes: Creativity

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1968 Paris Protest Poster.

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1914-1918- WWI Fighter Pilot Training.

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Train Wreck.

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Powerful Love Poem (1896)

Fire runs through my body with the pain of loving you

Pain runs through my body with the fires of my love for you

Sickness wanders my body with my love for you

Pain like a boil about to burst with my love for you

Consumed by the fire with my love for you

I remember what you said to me

I am thinking of your love for me

I am torn by your love for me

Pain and more pain

Where are you going with my love?

I am  told you will go from here

I am  told you will leave me here

My body is numb with grief

Remember what i have said,  my love

Good bye, my love, good bye.

This poem, recited by an anonymous Kwakuitl Indian of Southern Alaska to a missionary in 1896, captures the excruciating pain of lost love. 

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The New Yorker

"Moment of Joy"