vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
Remembering Bayard Rustin on MLK Day - © Frank H. Jump
Previously posted on Fading Ad Campaign website.
Adam Clayton Powell threatened to spread a rumor that Bayard Rustin & Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr were having an affair unless King fired Rustin from his integral leadership position in the Civil Rights Movement. Bayard went on to organize the August 28, 1963 March on Washington at A. Phillip Randolph’s insistence.
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Montgomery Street & Liberty Square - Grayscale © Vincenzo Aiosa
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Day 18 'Enter the knife'
Just after the New Year, I received an e-mail from a spokesperson for a documentary crew in New York City called The Ritual Project, currently working on an art and film project commissioned by Stella Artois.
The Ritual Project Painter Crew - Sky High painters are some of the last purveyors of the hand-painted advertising tradition.
They’ve been working with the guys at Colossal/Sky High Murals, New York’s finest outdoor advertising company that “specializes in high-impact painted wallscapes.”
Wallscape
As was explained t0 me, Stella Artois commissioned “the guys over at Sky High Murals” to paint the entire 9-step Belgian pouring ritual, step by step. Over 21 days of painting, the documentary team created a stop-motion film on a 20×50 wall.
The spokesperson went on further to say, “As you’re quite familiar with the craft of handpainted signage, I’m sure you can image the scale of the project — and then to keep painting over it! That’s a lot of hard work, and a great effort from the painters to keep the talent and creativity going from day to day.”
Beyond that, The Ritual Project is delving into the painters’ world. In the coming weeks, they will be releasing a short documentary about them online and at events around the U.S.
Belgian Pouring Process
Belgian Pouring Process close up
The entire documentary process is beautifully documented with photography and videos on The Ritual Project website. Thank you for giving us at FAB an “insider’s peek” at the upcoming project. Also featured is a great interview with our friend and fading ad enthusiast in the UK, Ghostsign’s Sam Roberts!
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Frank Jump in front of Bum's Saloon in Cleveland © Vincenzo Aiosa
My beautiful husband Enzo has been bitten by the blog bug. Check out his Rantourage blog – where sometimes he rants or rages.
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© Vincenzo Aiosa
A. Steinhardt & Bro., importers, exporters and manufacturers of “fancy goods.” Fancy goods is a term still in use today that was much in use a century ago to refer to luxury items such as giftware, ornaments, fragrances, toys, dolls and god knows what all too diverse to fit any more specific term. It was also used (as defined in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary of 1913) as “fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make.” – Walter Grutchfield, 14t042 dot net
Visit Walter’s site for more info on this company!
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