Illustrated prints for collectors of the strange. Inspired by historical radicals, scientists, philosophers, heroes, and icons. Designed in Canada. More at notionblur.shop ↗
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The wall slogan from Godard's La Chinoise, 1967, hand-painted in stencil capitals. A minority with the correct revolutionary line is no longer a minority.
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The slowest mammal alive riding the slowest reptile, both entirely content, under a title in racing italics. Slow is a strategy with better fuel economy.
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anti hustle, chill, drifting, funny animals, lazy
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The white whale breaching with old harpoons still buried in its head, cut against blue lightning. Six hundred pages of obsession and it wins anyway.
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book, book lover, books, bookworm, captain ahab
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Mid-stride in the gait every Canadian recognises, prosthetic leg drawn plain, ringed by the words Marathon of Hope. He never finished, and people have been finishing it for him since 1980.
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1980, canada, canadian hero, cancer research, fitness
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The blunt bob, the round dark glasses and the potted plant held with both arms. Everyone in that story is carrying something they cannot put down.
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bob haircut, bomber jacket, choker, cinema, cult film
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Sharp collar and tie against Birmingham's smoking chimneys and canal. A gangster story about untreated shell shock in very good tailoring.
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The boss in suit and tie, flanked by the pool and the ducks that started everything. It was never about the ducks, it was entirely about the ducks.
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A human face, furious rather than monstrous, under a full crown of coiling snakes. In Ovid's telling she was the victim first, and readers noticed a long time ago.
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ancient greece, ancient greek, classics, feminism, feminist
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The bearded king of the gods gripping a single bolt in both fists, Olympus and its temples behind him. The lightning was never the point, the impunity was.
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ancient greece, ancient greek, bear, classics, greece
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The caped figure half in shadow, backed by a fan of organ pipes. There really is a lake under the Paris opera house, and one true basement has kept this ghost story alive for a century.
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The ageing warrior in mail, scarred and grey, from the longest poem in Old English, which survives in one scorched manuscript. For people who know how close the record came to being blank.
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dark academia, dragon, epic, fantasy, grendel
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The hooded archer framed by the oaks of Sherwood, a castle in the branches. Seven centuries of rewrites and the money still moves the same direction.
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archer, archery, bow and arrow, eat the rich, folklore
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The most relentlessly cheerful character ever drawn, scowling under a mohawk with his fists up, in acid yellow. The attitude was always there, the haircut is just the paperwork.
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The father of computing, cut in fine engraved linework like a face on a banknote. For people who built the thing everyone now takes for granted.
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ai, artificial intelligence, bletchley park, code, coder
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Orange and white stripes, hidden perfectly among the orange cones and RUE BARRÉE signs, Mount Royal's cross on the skyline. For people who know a detour sign is a permanent fixture.
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canada, canadian, city humour, construction, detour
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Pearls, corset boning and heavy eye makeup, from the film that flopped in 1975 and has been playing at midnight ever since. For people who found their crowd at a late screening.
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One face split down the middle, the groomed doctor on one side and the snarl on the other, ringed by flying laboratory glass. The potion never created anything, it only took the lid off.
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book lover, books, bookworm, chemistry, classic literature
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Nothing went into The Handmaid's Tale that had not already happened somewhere, and she kept the clippings. The Canadian novelist under her halo of curls, for people who noticed it was a documentary.
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The Chiricahua Apache warrior with his rifle, beneath his own handwritten signature, the one he sold for pocket change as a prisoner of war. For people who know whose name they are using.
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anti fascist, cowboy, geronimo, gun, history
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Marker handstyle with the drips left in, the way it looks when there is no time to be neat. Paint on a wall you do not own is the oldest public speech there is.
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Heavy hand-drawn capitals packed edge to edge, because this one does not want to be whispered. For people who arrived at the conclusion the long way.
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attitude, bold, funny, hand lettering, humor
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Glasses, suspenders and the beet farm behind him, competence aimed with total seriousness at a job that does not deserve it. Assistant TO the regional manager.
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The count in a high-collared cape beneath a crescent moon and scattering bats. Every vampire accent for a century is an impression of this man.
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bats, bela lugosi, classic horror, cresc, cult classic
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A china teacup and a tipped bottle of poison, from the first Miss Marple novel. Nothing in an English village is as harmless as the porcelain suggests.
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Same turban, same pearl, same look over the shoulder, new spiked leather jacket. Vermeer's anonymous girl, three hundred years on and losing nothing.
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art history, band, baroque, dutch masters, fine art
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Half living cat, half skeleton, both states at once until somebody looks. The thought experiment its own author meant as a joke, printed for people whose sarcasm keeps getting quoted straight.
