badasssss new gnr poster

[Lara]

What great about the poster is the motif, cupid (eros, love, libido ) kissing psyche (agape, soul, spirit) to revive her.
Damn intelligent and beautiful idea to use this for the tour.

What do all these have to do with a rock n' roll band's tour?    Am I the only one here who doesn't think this poster suits GnR?

[ppbebe]

read it as the music wakes you up in raptures. Or "wake up fuckers!", if you prefer

[nonlinear]

Does anyone know how to digitally remove the writing?  I want to use this as a desktop, but it's too cluttered with all of the writing on it.

[MrBrOwNsToNeR]

Does anyone know how to digitally remove the writing?  I want to use this as a desktop, but it's too cluttered with all of the writing on it.

photoshop.

[nonlinear]

can you do it?

[SPUNKY]

Looks like a wallpaper I made a while ago:



That poster would make a real fuckin' cool CD cover. Although....Imagine the yellow....in gold (on the CD case).

it looks nothing like it, good job

[nonlinear]

is that supposed to be a joke or something?  cause it's not funny...

[Spirit]

No wiz when it comes to photoshop, I'm sure many of you could do a better job removing the text.. But I wouldn't mind if the cd looks something similar to this.

[Lara]

^ Nah... 

[HamsterDemocracy]

^ Nah... 

I agree with Lara, I'd rather have the Chinese man with the bandana as a front cover.

[IndiannaRose]

Looks like a wallpaper I made a while ago:



That poster would make a real fuckin' cool CD cover. Although....Imagine the yellow....in gold (on the CD case).

it looks nothing like it, good job

I'm talkin' about the theme.

[ppbebe]

I'd rather have the Chinese man with the bandana as a front cover.

Nah. I suppose that one was sorta makesift as it was originally a suicide pilot.

[suicide]

Here's why I think this won't be the cover for Chinese Democracy:

In 1991 Guns N' Roses played at the Warfield Theater (05.09.91). The posters for this show were unique and looked very different than the posters used for the other shows. You can find a pic of this poster on www.gnrontour.com: http://www.gnrontour.com/sets1991/19910509poster.jpg.
So I guess the Warfield Theater designs its own posters. That's also why this poster was designed in San Francisco.

Besides, I think the design of this poster would suit a techno album better then a GN'R album, but that's just my opinion.

[SPUNKY]

Looks like a wallpaper I made a while ago:



That poster would make a real fuckin' cool CD cover. Although....Imagine the yellow....in gold (on the CD case).

it looks nothing like it, good job

ohhhhh ok im sorry than

 
I'm talkin' about the theme.

[chinese69illusions]

I thought I read someone wanted the poster as a wallpaper so here 800x600


 

And the large version1280X1024 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GACM2WA7

[liesin]

No wiz when it comes to photoshop, I'm sure many of you could do a better job removing the text.. But I wouldn't mind if the cd looks something similar to this.

really nice one, to bad this one can't be bought, ad far as I know.

[liesin]

the one without the phot shop edit of course

[Bono]

Looks like a wallpaper I made a while ago:



That poster would make a real fuckin' cool CD cover. Although....Imagine the yellow....in gold (on the CD case).

Cool wallpaper Indianna. But for CD cover.... nah. Unless it's the cover for the Axl Rose solo album. 

[lennonisgod]

I have this pic as my wallpaper on my computer right now and I was kind of just off in a daze looking at it for minute.  DID ANYONE NOTICE what looks to be like a Jesus Christ type looking figure in the pic??  Maybe it's just me, but if you look between the right elbow of Cupid and the right arm pit area of Psyche, you see can see it.  It's a little dark in that area but I don't think it's a coincedence that it's there. From a distance it may even look like a woman but it seems to have long hair. Maybe I'm going crazy because it's 3:40 in the morning right now.  Oh, and sorry if this was already pointed out.

[nooz]

Interesting place to stick a pic of Jesus.....

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.? 2001-05.
 
Psyche
 
 
(s ?k ) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, personification of the human soul. She was so lovely that Eros (Cupid), the god of love, fell in love with her. He swept her off to a beautiful, isolated castle but forbade her to look at him since he was a god. When she disobeyed, he abandoned her, but she ceaselessly searched for him, performing difficult and dangerous tasks, until at last she was reunited with him forever and made immortal.
 

Eros, in Greek religion and mythology

 
 
( r? s,? r??) (KEY) , in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest, tender, romantic love, and playful, sportive love. According to some legends he was one of the oldest of the gods, born from Chaos and personifying creative power and harmony. In most legends he was the son of Aphrodite and Ares and was represented as a winged youth armed with bow and arrows. In Greek poetry Eros was often a willful and unsympathetic god, carelessly dispensing the frenzies and agonies of love. At Thespiae and at Athens he was worshiped as a god of fertility. In Hellenistic and Roman myth, he was represented as a naked, winged child, the son and companion of Venus. To the Romans he was Cupid, or Amor. Eros was sometimes attended by his brother, Anteros, who was said to be the avenger of unrequited love or the opposer of love. See also Psyche.Anterosby Micha F. LindemansIn Greek myth,

Anteros ("return- or opposite-love") is sometimes the brother of Eros, the god of love. The latter languished of loneliness until Aphrodite gave Anteros to him as a playmate: love must be answered if it is to prosper. Anteros is also the god who punishes those who scorn love or do not return love of others.

The Black Rose is a rarely used symbol of the anarchist movement. The political origins of the Black Rose can be traced to the Irish song about their struggle against the British, "Little Black Rose". The song is about resistance and rebellion, and as such aligns to the general view adopted by anarchists of anti-authoritarianism.

Dragons - Guardians of the Earth
Taken from "The Sacred Earth" by Brian Leigh Molyneaux
From: Temple of the Dark Moon

The dragon is one of the most potent symbols of the primordial energy that is the source of all power, both god and evil. In the West, dragon symbolism has tended to emphasis the negative side of that energy, mainly through the influence of Christianity, while Oriental mythology represents the dragon as a positive force, a symbol of the human potential to combine the power of the four elements to creative ends. This distinction is reflected in the way in which each tradition views the relationship between the dragon and the landscape.


In Western mythology, the dragon's associated with particular locations is often through its role as a guardian. The dragon is seen as a fearsome, fire-breathing beast that guards treasure (spiritual knowledge), or a maiden (a symbol of purity), and is set up as an obstacle to be overcome by such saintly heroes as St Michael and St George.


In China, the primal power of the dragon was said to be channelled through the landscape along paths of energy "dragon lines". These lines were regarded as very auspicious locations and used by members of the imperial family as burial sites. Locating the way in which the flow of energy, both positive and negative, interacted with the landscape was developed into a highly sophisticated practice, geomancy, which is still used today.


The Chinese dragon is fierce but rarely malevolent: it represents the East, the sun and the bounty of the land. The four-clawed dragon, Mang, represents temporal power. The dragon named long hold a fiery pearl in its claws, which may present the Moon as a source of fertility, although the Taoists and Buddhists it is the "pearl which grants all desires" (wisdom and enlightenment). As symbols of the dark powers of the Earth, dragons and serpents are close relative and, in myth, often indistinguishable. The word "dragon" comes from the Greek dracon or largest serpent.


In North America, the rock art of the Algonkian people depicts serpents beside natural holes and crevices, perhaps as spiritual messengers to the underworld. In Algonkian myth, the dark side of the Earth energy is shown through the great underwater serpent spirit, Mizhipichew, which stirs up the waters of lakes with his tail and must be appeased with offerings of tobacco.


In Australia, serpent beings identified with the rainbow bring forth life through the rain and yet are the dangerous guardians of the waterholes, easily angered if rituals to propitiate them were not followed correctly.