Which of these posters do I want for my office?

[wienerdog]

Because I'm tempted to just get both...

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Norman-Fraser/Worlds-Fair-Chicago-Illinois-1933-Print-C10287595.jpeg

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Glen-Sheffer/Chicago-Worlds-Fair-1933-Print-C10047577.jpeg

[Ned]

You need them both, Wiener.

[Takes2ToTricycle]

The first one is more than twice as awesome!

[DesignStudio]

oh boy, i can see this thread getting good. here are some of my suggestions for the posters for your office. they're a little more inspirational.

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6466/565808162b14975e6euv7.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2464/103930452e6538a85bfcf0.jpg

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/4618/565840654bf558727bjy4.jpg

[hewligan]

Well, from the World's Fair posters, both is definitely the better option, but if I had to choose, I'd take the first one.

Of the second set of posters, I'll have number two, thank-you very much.

[DesignStudio]

i concur. there's no time like beer-thirty.

[vtwin_gary]

i like the world fair with the girl on it.

[morea]

you honestly can't decide for yourself which poster you like more? Oy vey.

Well, I'm with DesignStudio... here's one of my favorites:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2690/gettoworkuf2.jpg

[MyST]

I love this one, and was thinking of getting it for hanging up at work.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j44/SOLOGraphic/GDF%20Stuff/cluelessness.jpg

[Ned]

Oh, they would love you there, MyST... :D

[MyST]

They'd love me more, you mean.

[Ned]

Yes, of course. That's what I meant. :D

[CamarotaDesign]

Heheh, I love those "inspirational" posters. "the fastest way to get your ass replaced around here, LOL"

oh, these remind me of a quote from Chuck Close: "Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up"

Weiner - I like the first one more, but I'd have to say, both are pretty cool.

[urstwile]

If I could only get one, it'd be the first one. The second one's nice though too, I just like the first one better.

[PrintDriver]

I like the 2nd because it is about the fair itself. The first one is only a train ride. You can only stare at the first one so long before it gets boring.

Then again, I like the style of the first one as being more representative of the era.

Hmmm.... decisions decisions.

Glad they're someone else's.

[Red Kittie Kat]

There should have been a poll.....



but I guess I would go with the second as well :D

[mac.FINN]

I like the 2nd one.

Same reason a PD, there's way more going on in there. It's much more interesting. However they're both really cool posters so you can't really go wrong.

[budafist]

I like the first World Fair poster because it is more striking with it's colours and shapes.

Our office is boring. I put up a series of my own artwork postcards over a year ago, but there there isn't anything else up.

[MyST]

My white wall was just sceaming for a nice poster.

I put this one up.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j44/SOLOGraphic/GDF%20Stuff/Poster.jpg

[cornfed]

It speaks to me MyST, really it does.

[colonel5]

My white wall was just sceaming for a nice poster.

I put this one up.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j44/SOLOGraphic/GDF%20Stuff/Poster.jpg

Wow, i sat there staring at it for about 30 seconds waiting for it to load until I realized it was a joke... can you tell it's monday?

[hewligan]

Wow, i sat there staring at it for about 30 seconds waiting for it to load until I realized it was a joke... can you tell it's monday?

It's Tuesday here, and I still got a bit confused.

I'm really not a morning person...

[MyST]

No, no... you haven't looked at it long enough yet.
Keep looking. And when your boss comes up behind you, ask him/her to look too.

Tell him/her you read in an art book that a blank sheet of paper is the scariest thing. Then tell him you're trying to figure out what's so scary about it.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Myst :D

[hewligan]

No, no... you haven't looked at it long enough yet.
Keep looking. And when your boss comes up behind you, ask him/her to look too.

Tell him/her you read in an art book that a blank sheet of paper is the scariest thing. Then tell him you're trying to figure out what's so scary about it.

I'm pretty sure that running out of coffee is, in fact, the scariest thing. Anything else I can handle.

[MikeTheVike]

I like the first one the best.

Where are you getting those? I need some posters like that!

Edit, nevermind, found them on Allposters.com

[Riya]

MyST, is it an original?

More often, Rauschenberg's early works reflected the aesthetic of his friend, composer John Cage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage), another member of the Black Mountain faculty, whose music of chance occurrences and found sounds perfectly suited Rauschenberg's personality. The "white paintings" produced by Rauschenberg at Black Mountain in 1951 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951), while they contain no image at all, are said to be so exceptionally blank and reflective that their surfaces respond and change in sympathy with the ambient conditions in which they are shown, "so you could almost tell how many people are in the room," as Rauschenberg once commented. The White Paintings are said to have directly influenced Cage in the composition of his completely "silent" piece titled 4'33" the following year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg

[Cyan_Ide]

So Johnny gave a life in the deadly arts of Kombat to pursue a career in music? Interesting.

[EC]

I have always admired #2, I've considered getting that one myself. I may do yet. nice taste weiner. ;)

[DesignStudio]

"nice taste weiner"...

i had so many jokes about that comment that my brain overloaded and i couldn't decide which one to post.

[EC]

bok bok *chicken*

[urstwile]

DS, just go with the one that's the poorest in taste, to contrast Weiner's good taste in posters. :D