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poster for the nashville-based band, the protomen
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it's 2024. the protomen first took to the stage 20 years ago. to mark the occasion they are playing a show with the same bands (almost) that played with them at that first show. they asked us to make a poster to promote the occasion.

caspar had long been bothered with how badly daft punk had executed the cover artwork for their final album, random access memories. despite having access to their own helmets to photograph, they made a poor computer rendering of them instead. now, since the protomen had often referred to themselves as "a southern, buck-toothed daft punk", it felt right to finally set the record straight. we shipped their smashed-up, 20 year old helmets to joey ciccoline and he set about photographing them in the appropriate manner.

if you have the means to make it to the show we do recommend it. the protomen are, despite the tongue-in-cheek daft punk reference here, one of the most unique and extraordinary live bands in existence today. 
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protomen.com
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poster
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poster for the TV show, rainbow ruthie.
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millicent cho and ruthie marantz sent us the pilot episode of rainbow ruthie, which had just gotten into SXSW film festival. the show contains VHS footage of ruthie's real life teenage years as 'rainbow ruthie' the public access TV show star, and picks up 20 years later as we see ruthie take on that role again as a youtube star. 

the poster we made is a composite of two posters, one we reimagined from the streets of new york in the 90s, and the other a new poster for the new show. both we depicted wheat-pasted to a wall in new york,  juxtaposed in a fashion that felt fitting to the entire experience of watching the new show.
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imdb.com/title/tt5696172
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tour poster
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tour poster for the nashville-based band, the protomen
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the protomen recently headed out west to road test some new material from their forthcoming LP. after some discussion john delucca set to work drawing and painting the image you see here. the image speaks for itself of course and, as ever, hints at elements of the band's ongoing conceptual narrative and as much as their reality.
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protomen
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