Ya Tu Sabes

I lifted this from an old Chinese propaganda poster (I cleaned it up a little and edited out the visible hand brake). Figured some of you artistic types could do some fun spoke cards or something.

iamjberube

nice. that's cool as hell.

schloe mo

dig those promenade bars.

thriftcore

Think you could post the original?

Ya Tu Sabes

It's on this site: www.maopost.com. I'm feeling too lazy to find it right now, but it's there.

jaypee

Are you ****ing kidding me? This is amazing!

koyman

awesome.

FXjohn

That is a "Fun" picture

mattface 

not sure why you "cleaned it up"

The original is freakin' awesome!

Ya Tu Sabes

I just wanted to get an image that was simple and iconic - I thought I might use it with some words or something to make stickers. I agree that the original rocks.

Phillio

Wow, they even have little pieces of bamboo on their heads for camouflage, like in those old bugs bunny cartoons.

The OG would make an even better spoke card....that thing's beautiful.

wangster

the art is 'cool' and interesting especially to us bikers, but the idea behind it and the reason for it's existence isn't so cool and I'd never put that on my bike knowing where it came from. But a cool find nonetheless.

helvetica

I think captions would be better....let me start:

"after this want to go back to my tent?"

Pawls

Is that an alleycat?

mrbertfixy

a new idea for the philly team alleycat. who's got a stash of ak's.

humancongereel

next alleycat i do, i want to have to carry a rider with a rifle. look out, SUV's of portland!

shankton

I do. No kidding.

jaypee

In the interest of accuracy, those are SKS' in the print. They're cheap.

Moximitre

we used to do that with paintball guns... though I don't think any of us EVER got hit (not very good shots)

eyefloater

It's propaganda. Every country creates it in one form or another. Take it with a grain of salt and appreciate it for what it is. The artwork's amazing and the concept's pretty cool. I'm a big fan of propaganda artwork and that'd make a great spoke card, if one were so inclined.

- eyefloater

pk273340

what do you mean?
my history isnt super great so im not totally sure what you mean by "the idea behind it and the reason for it's existence isn't so cool and I'd never put that on my bike knowing where it came from"
please elaborate

wangster

most of the chinese propaganda came during the communist uprising and also the cultural revolution. Two very bloody and sad periods in Chinese history. My grandparents had to go through parts of that and they don't like to talk about it.

The site said it was printed in 1974,so that means it was towards the end of the cultural revolution, where countless irreplaceable chinese artifacts and cultural items were destroyed. Books, music, anything to do with chinese culture was deemed bad and destroyed. Many people were killed or sent to re-education camps for ridiculous reasons and friends, neighbors and even families were torn apart and set against eachother. It's a very ugly part of chinese history, one that should never have happened but it did and the country is still trying to find what was lost to this day.

I appreciate the art from a designer's point of view, but the chinese part of me ( a big part) can't really appreciate it fully knowing where it came from.

Just my point of view... hope I dont' sound preachy, just wanted to explain my reasoning.

genericbikedude

I *heart* communist propaganda

(even though what wangster said is clearly true)

helvetica

Thank god they're wearing camo

humancongereel

huh, i didn't know any of that till wangster said it.

taken apart from the historical context, it's cool. how's that sound?