Died Young Stayed Pretty: A movie about graphic design for rock posters

DYSPSure to be of interest to visual communication and music enthusiasts!

Ends Thursday night!

January 8 – 14, SEATTLE PREMIERE,
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Dir: Eileen Yaghoobian
2009, Canada / Color, Video / 95 min.

Official Selection of the 2009 South By Southwest Film Festival and 2008 Montreal World Film Festival, DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY is a candid look at the underground indie-rock poster subculture in North America that was reborn with the launch of the website Gigposters.com. Director Eileen Yaghoobian gives an intimate look at a few of the giants of the subculture, some who go broke to maintain their creative workshops while others have found commercial success. Featuring interviews with Tom Hazelmyer, Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, the Ames Brothers, Jeff Kleinsmith, Jay Ryan, Print Mafia, and Rob Jones, among others, outside their own circle, they are virtually unknown, but within their ranks they are bareknuckle brawlers. Yaghoobian sneaks her lens into the lives of these self-professed radicals to discover where the real power lies, if any remains.

With original music by Mark Greenberg and visual effects by Pete Dionne, DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY features posters for Radiohead, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, The Flaming Lips, The Melvins, Nick Cave, Broken Social Scene, Ween and legends like Bob Dylan and Marianne Faithful.

“Raw — an outlaw movie about outlaw artists.” Peter Rainer, NPR

Playing Daily: 7 & 9pm

“The Map as Art” book and reading tonight at Elliott Bay Book Company

The Map as Art

For all you visual communication enthusiasts, check out this cool new book. The author reads tonight in Pioneer Square.

Seattle’s Katharine “Kitty” Harmon makes a most welcome return visit to Elliott Bay tonight with a stunning new book of maps of territories both strange and familiar—produced by artists working in paint, salt, old magazines, gloves, found items, and on the artists’ own bodies.

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press) includes photographs of maps by 350 artists, including Ed Rushka, Julian Schnabel, Maya Lin, Guillermo Kuitca, and Gale Jamieson, and features essays on some of the artists by art historian Gayle Clemans. Kitty Harmon, the author of over a dozen books, was her more recently with You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.

Tue, 11/24/2009 – 7:00pm
Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, Washington 98104