Thursday, 5 August 2010

MARTIAL ARTS VS. B-BOYS



















































































I'm very much into old school Hip Hop music/culture so I've decided to create a poster about something I find very interesting- the influence of martial arts, especially Kung Fu (which boomed in the US in the 70s when hip hop/ bboying started) and Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts. Some people would argue that's not true but I find it very likely it is.
There is a cool article here explaining the whole thing very convincingly. This poster is work in progress but it's getting closer to what I had in mind, but who knows, I might look at it tomorrow and turn it all around again. As everything else, I plan to screen print it when I get back into the studio. It is influenced by Blaxploitation, retro Kung Fu stuff and Hip Hop style. I've chosen two typefaces to start with but not sure if they totally do it for me - first one reminds me of 1968 Japanese Olympic Games poster and the other one is just very 70s. Will keep digging, there might be more appropriate stuff out there.

//////A day after- I have tried Impact typeface now and added a few other qualities. Looks better. There might be more changes coming up.//////

////////// A week after. I have taken the red thing away and just left the paper as a background. /////////////

And for the end, just a sentence from the above mentioned article-

"Kung fu films have been with B-Boying from the very beginning, since the street gangs watched the films on 42nd street. Kung fu movies will always be a part of hip hop culture. "

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