When you listen to “We Love You” by The Rolling Stones, it opens with the sound of a jail door slamming shut. When you look at the cover of Sgt. Pepper, the Beatles—guided by art director Richard Hamilton—included, at the suggestion of his art dealer, Robert Fraser, a sweater with “welcome” for the “good guys” the beleaguered Stones, knitted across the chest of a Shirley Temple doll.In that jail sat Fraser, who would be sentenced to six months in the summer of 1967 for cannabis possession. Keith Richards faced the same term; neither he nor Mick Jagger, also charged with Fraser, would serve time as they appealed. Meanwhile, Jagger’s looming three-month sentence reduced to a “conditional discharge” earned more attention, sympathy, and opprobrium.William Rees-Mogg’s famous editorial on Jagger in the London Times ran with the leader “Who Breaks a Butterfly on the Wheel?” Fraser merited, Judge Black reasoned, a stiffer penalty as the Eton-educated, King’s African Rifles veteran came from a good family, and the court sought to make him an example of “swingeing” London. The pun, obscure to non-British eyes and ears, depends on “swinge”: to beat or scourge. The media martyrdom of Fraser, and by extension the flamboyant Jagger, compelled their “friend and collaborator” Hamilton to make the pair’s gesture—hands flung before faces as the camera intrudes on their mobile incarceration, uneasy speed shuddering to a flashbulb’s halt—into Pop Art.

via Who Breaks a Butterfly on the Wheel? Richard Hamilton: Swingeing London 67f < PopMatters.

I found these posters as expired auction listings and I hope you enjoy this rather lazy image dump.

via Hallå!: 25 Vintage Posters from Sweden – 50 Watts.

20,000 Open Access Digital Images

via National Gallery of Art offering open access images « History Faculty Library at Oxford.

Paper posters that play music via printed circuits made with conductive ink have been unveiled.The prototype “Listening Post” poster is a guide to bands performing locally.The interactive poster plays a short clip of a bands music when a thumbnail image is pressed. Tickets can also be booked via the poster.The low cost of printing mean anything that uses paper or card could soon be much more interactive, said the posters inventors.It is one of several “paper apps” that have been developed by a consortium of British scientists, musicians and researchers being demonstrated at the South By Southwest Show in Austin, Texas.

via BBC News – Playing pop music via paper posters with conductive ink.

Recent Chelsea College of Art & Design graduate Dan Cottrell has created a guide for the sole aim of getting lost. Pyschogeography is nothing new, but AWOL provides a beautifully simple design approach to the subject.

via AWOL — A Guide To Getting Lost — The Pop-Up City.

R.I.C. 5th JURIED SHOW – Call for Entries!

Richmond Illustrators Club is now accepting entries for our 5th Juried Show! The deadline to submit is April 13, 2012.

Selected work will be shown at Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond, VA in June 2012. A catalog will be produced and distributed at the show and by request through the club (view a PDF from last year’s catalog).

How To Enter

Entries must be submitted through the online form.

Images must be 700 px on the longest side, RGB, 72dpi, JPEG format.

Jurors

Sterling Hundley

Alice Cho

Noah Scalin

George Pratt

Martin Gee

via Current Show « Richmond Illustrators Club.

Kevin recently wrapped up a piece for Richmond Magazine on Spielberg recently bringing some Hollywood to RVA…you can check more of K’s illustrations at kevinmcfadin.com. Thanks for checking in.