![]() Biafra / TIME Cover: January 26, 1970, Art Poster by TIME Magazine $19.95 The most eagerly awaited event in the editorial cycle at TIME Magazine is always the selection of the cover. The best covers capture the zeitgeist of the week while surviving the judgment of history. As browsing this collection of TIME cover art prints shows, TIME is as good a record as any of who and what mattered over the past 80-plus years. And so when TIME captures a person, an event or a trend within its iconic red borders, the magazine is adding that extra dose of significance that no other publication can quite match. That is one reason why the original artwork for more than 800 TIME covers now resides in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Thanks to an amazing roster of artists, photographers and graphic designers, from TIME's earliest charcoal drawings of cover subjects to its later black-and-white photography to the more recent paintings and stunning color photography, TIME covers have always been, sometimes quite literally, works of great art. And, while the times may change, the TIME cover, with its iconic red border, has never lost its power to immediately send the signal that this person or event or idea is important to our lives, that in some way history is being made before our eyes. ![]() Nasum - Inhale/Exhale T Shirt Brown shirt with band logo, album cover art on front, and more gas-mask wearing freaks on the back. Killer design! ![]() Genocide & Juice $11.98 Oakland's black radical the Coup have always prepared for the revolution with tongue firmly in cheek. They destroy big-pimping targets with Molotov cocktails of acid wit and minimalist funk. Think Del crossed with Frantz Fanon set to Funkadelic, and you get the idea. When Genocide and Juice was first released in 1994, it was chart-bound, about to be the group's major breakthrough, when a record company merger crushed it. Thankfully, it's back in print, affording you a chance to rediscover the blaxploitation spy caper of "Fat Cats Bigga Fish" and "Pimps," the sinewy Robin Hood tale of "Takin' These," and the raw-dog hardcore of "Santa Rita Weekend" (including an uncredited Spice One and E-40). Also, be sure to check 1998's brilliant Steal This Album for more street wisdom. --Jeff Chang ![]() THEY CAME FROM THE SKIES Manufacturer's Description It is 1960 and the peace and prosperity of Planet Earth is shattered as an aggressive alien species starts a full scale invasion. Their objective ¸«¤" the annihilation of the human race! The signs were there ¸«¤" a series of UFO sighting had led to speculation that we were not alone in the universe. But no-one expected the enormity of the threat. Mother ships, troop drop ships and super fast UFO¸«¤TMs seem to be everywhere ¸«¤" and we were not prepared. The first ¸«¤" and last ¸«¤" line of defense is you and your squadron of 1960¸«¤TMs classic aircraft. You have the skills and the weaponry to battle with the UFO¸«¤TMs ¸«¤" but the odds are against you as the enemy seems to have a never ending supply of UFO¸«¤TMs. If you can force their ships to land and take control of a UFO you can fly undetected into the hornets nest of the Mother ship itself and turn the tide of war in your favour. It's a simple case of destroy all aliens or be destroyed along with everyone else on the planet! |
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