This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere? » africa http://www.thisblogrules.com creative, art, street-art, strange news, music, movies, fun Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:56:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bizzare hand drawn movie posters from Africa http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/12/bizzare-hand-drawn-movie-posters-from.html http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/12/bizzare-hand-drawn-movie-posters-from.html#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:42:00 +0000 TBR http://thisblogrules.com/?p=143 FridayTemporary cinemas became common in Ghana in the 80s because of the video cassette technology. When “mobile cinema” operators traveled from town to town creating these temporary cinemas, they needed movie posters in order to promote the movies. They hired artists were given totally freedom to paint the posters as they wanted, some of them didn’t even watch the movies, and that is why the result was interesting and bizarre movie posters, mostly of horror and trash action movies.

under-siege the-road-warior the-mummy terminator terminator3 spiders one-million-years-bc mkombat3 kik-boxer jackie-chan hardway ewoks evil dragon deltaforce children-of-the-corn anaconda anaconda3 american-commandos A similar thing happened in Russia where these hand drawn movie posters were made.

]]> http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/12/bizzare-hand-drawn-movie-posters-from.html/feed 9 In Africa you can have a hyena, baboon or a python as a pet http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/10/in-africa-you-can-have-hyena-baboon-or.html http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/10/in-africa-you-can-have-hyena-baboon-or.html#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:57:00 +0000 TBR http://thisblogrules.com/?p=91 hyenapetafrica In some countries dangerous wild animals and some dog breeds are banned. In some other places they have probably never heard about those rules. Like in Africa where you can have a hyena or a baboon or maybe a python as a pet.

snakeafricanpet petafrica monkeyafricanpet monekyinshirtpet hyenaafricanpet hienapet hienaafricanpet extremepet africanpet africanmonkeypet For them it’s pretty normal putting a chain on a hyena and taking it out for a walk, or maybe ride your motorcycle with a baboon sitting in the back.

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