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DESIGNER:

Landland

VENUE:

Varsity Theater

Minneapolis

USA

SUBMITTED BY:

Dan Black

2009-05-13 19:37:32

BANDS:

Bob Mould

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Burlesque :

Awesome! Congrats Dan! This is a well-deserved accolade for an one of my favorite poster artists - and a great neighbor to boot!

2009-05-22 14:25:25

beyondthepale :

Beautiful work Dan, reminds me of Luna Park here in St Kilda Australia. I live 200 yards from Luna Park roller coaster, the oldest, continually operating roller coaster in the world. Opened in 1912 & still going strong. Timber framed & makes a helluva racket & noise...This a great poster..love it..

2009-05-21 03:53:17

Tenebrini :

HOT!

2009-05-20 15:44:36

adamturman :

Super awesome DanLand.
I do wish is were the "Highroller" though ;)
Love that back-story.

2009-05-20 15:37:28

strawberryluna :

it's been so nice to look at this the past few days. love on the landlands lots. well deserved and congratulations!

2009-05-19 08:37:23

iver :

Great! I'm a big fan of abandoned things so this really speaks to me (I think it says Abandoned clown train remembers you).

2009-05-19 08:16:04

Shot By A Fan :

great colors and vision. very majestic!! outstanding!

2009-05-19 04:00:13

Sick Icarus :

Ohhhh wow! This is truly spectacular...congrats!

2009-05-18 19:33:09

emo_force :

This is a truly deserving poster of the week.

2009-05-18 11:32:31

Beto Ramirez :

Yeah, very cool.

2009-05-18 11:20:38

drugfactory :

great choice

2009-05-18 09:47:34

DRG :

Very nice indeed

2009-05-18 05:13:21

DNML :

and can you believe it? Dan is only 13 years old. I wish I was making posters like this at age 13.

2009-05-18 00:12:32

s_turner :

Awesome choice! Congrats.

2009-05-17 17:51:06

Tape Ears :

Great colours, drawing and story! Makes me feel like I'm there. Real good potw choice.

2009-05-17 16:16:27

boatdreams :

Super nice!

2009-05-17 13:00:00

sudyka :

Yay Dan!!

2009-05-17 06:55:54

THE PiNCH :

very nice!

2009-05-17 05:50:18

scott campbell :

excellent potw

2009-05-16 23:00:00

clinttw :

oh man! totally deserving! I stood and stared at this poster everyday at flatstock for hours, not just because you guys were right across from me but also because its amazing. Congrats on POTW! One of my favorites ever.

2009-05-16 21:04:23

Unitus :

hey! congrats!! killer poster.

2009-05-16 18:49:19

JeffBrooks :

great pick for potw!

2009-05-16 18:09:01

crosshair :

its about time you put these up!

2009-05-16 16:53:26

Dan Black :

Oh man...thanks for saying all the nice stuff you guys.
This is probably more background than anyone asked for, but the drawing is of a rollercoaster that used to be in Ohio. I'd heard about this amusement park that went out of business in the 70's, and I guess they just fenced it up and forgot about it...so I did a bunch of internet research to figure out where it was so I could break in and see it, but apparently a ton of other people had the same idea waaay before me. I found a bunch of local news articles and tons of photos...this drawing is pretty heavily based on one of those photos with a few variations for composition. Hope that's ok. The place is completely overgrown and really amazing in a kind of weird post-apocalyptic way.
The heartbreaking part was that for whatever reason, I kinda stumbled across all the information about this park in chronological order...first there's people breaking in and taking photos (so now I'm excited about getting out there), then it hits the internet and everyone finds out about it and it becomes "totally not cool," neighbors get pissed and complain to the city (which means I don't have a lot of time), some dude decides to make a probably-terrible horror movie in it (gross, but whatever...I'm still totally into it), and then finally, just as I've all but packed up the car for a weekend trip, I find out that the whole place got bulldozed so some company could put in a health spa. Apparently it happened at the beginning of spring, pretty much at the same time I was finding out about it.
Uh, so yeah, the short version of all that is that it's not the Valleyfair one.
Also, I guess the secret's out: I live with DNML and enjoy the Coke Zero.

2009-05-16 16:37:46

DWITT :

based on the wooden rollercoaster at Valleyfair?

2009-05-16 14:36:03

seireyho :

betta have some whiskey with that coke zero...congrats man, another great pick.

2009-05-16 14:21:25

DNML :

CONGRATTTULATIONS!!! BUST OUT THE COKE ZERO!

2009-05-16 14:17:58

ROTATOR :

nice nostalgic feel. fun, long gone. Im diggin this Land Land joint.

2009-05-16 12:34:46

Kotah :

this is good!

2009-05-16 12:09:11

Bootsy :

congrats man - this is killer

2009-05-16 11:59:51

Badlydrawnbas :

Wow. This is amazing. Great work!!

2009-05-16 10:47:56

The Bubble Process :

awesome!

2009-05-16 09:30:25

Switch :

Class illo. Thats what I love bout GP , finding new and inspiring artists.

2009-05-16 06:25:36

Jonathan F :

wow. really nice perspective and good colors. great stuff landland!

2009-05-15 19:36:07

John Vogl :

this hangs rather much quite very proudly in my house...

2009-05-15 19:08:54

DNML :

Ryan. you should come visit. got the attick screen setup going and me and dan are pretty much drawing all the time. and there's a spare bedroom so you could stay a while.

2009-05-15 18:33:36

johnny :

Very nice!

2009-05-15 14:52:11

johnmav :

oh... forgot the... "!!"

2009-05-15 13:10:52

johnmav :

excellent

2009-05-15 13:10:19

DirkStainly :

excellent!