Just print it yourself. Tons of poster printing services online for cheap. I used PosterBurner last time and it was good. But probably others are fine. Not a promotion. Just what I used.
Don’t use the “upscale your image for free” sites because they’re just garbage ads on top of these open source models.
The poster website will say what minimum resolution they need to print usually. So just scale it until you reach that. Zoom in to the photo though and make sure no weird artifacts appear. They’ll be more obvious once printed.
Weird. I don’t get that. But you can definitely try other sites. One in the US if you’re in the states. Tarrifs are garbage for getting anything like this. I think even FedEx will print posters. But probably more expensive.
Important thing is making sure the image is high enough resolution for the size you want.
I first noticed this a few years back when I started to see “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong” on bumper stickers. Sure it seemed like a joke at the time but I was confused that so many people thought this was a statement worth putting on their vehicle. I mean, pretty early on in the OT, Darth Vader uses the Death Star to murder an entire planet so surely no one was serious, right?
Whoooo boy have I learned a lot about my neighbors’ values since then.
Yeah, being able to plan and do more than just react is apparently a shockingly low percentage of our population.
They have a couple “truths” they tell themselves and hope everything else just falls into like or will complain to someone else to do something about it so that it does. Listen to the hymns in a church some time and listen to how people talk about God. Its very lazy
“We can learn a lot about people’s intentions just by how they interact with fictional media.” A statement I would have ridiculed people for a few years ago. But it’s true and it’s sad that we even have to now.
When I found out about the 501st Legion, I was absolutely baffled. George Lucas dressed the bad guys to look like Nazis, and now fans were dressing up as the bad guys because they love the movies so much? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Then Captain America came out and people started dressing as Hydra agents, and I was like, “Oh, they’re just straight-up okay with Nazis. Got it.”
I had the impression the 501st was a different beast from “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong” types. I thought the point of them being stormtroopers was so everyone else had someone to heroically oppose? Their charity events seem to focus on things like kids shooting them with dart guns.
I’m not saying they haven’t been co-opted since I learned about them several years ago; but last I knew, they were happy playing bad guys to let other people be good guys.
I mean, cartoons from when I was a kid were problematic in different ways.
G.I. Joe taught me that the U.S. Military were the good guys and ‘Cobra’ were the bad guys. While I’m sure Cobra was probably bad, I’m not so sure about the first part. Also, guns are less dangerous than pepper spray and never lethal. On the other hand it also taught me that no matter how hard the GI’s fought against the bad guys, they would never stop them for long or truly defeat them, so I guess that it wasn’t wholly inaccurate.
Ducktales taught me that miserly Billionaires that hoarded vast amounts of wealth were lovable good guys actually.
I’m not even going to get into what Thundercats taught me.
Well I was half joking, but it seems to me like you are promoting a pretty big double standard here. You start off by saying “We can start with motherfucking saturday morning cartoons where they clearly showed who the bad guys are and what it means to be a bad guy.” So you are clearly criticizing something you find fault with (aka problematic) about modern cartoons (I’m not sure what, I don’t really watch cartoons anymore) but turn around and say I shouldn’t criticize “Problematic” things in “iconic” programs. Then you turn around once more and criticize them your own self in that they were glorified toy commercials, which is a good point. Things can be problematic in more than one way.
I agree that we should teach kids right from wrong (who are the good guys and who are the bad guys), but if you then portray the U.S. Military as ‘The good guys’ I have a problem with that. I bet a lot of kids who grew up idolizing the Joes ended up joining the military themselves, only to be forced to help overthrow democratically elected leaders in Central and South America, or protecting the U.S.'s ability to buy oil or opium products for cheap by murdering brown folks in the middle east. In my view, the U.S. Military haven’t unambiguously been “the good guys” since 1945, and even then the way that war ended was problematic as hell, and I’m not joking about that.
It’s irrelevant that Scrooge is a Duck, the message that some billionaires aren’t the scum of the Earth is a dangerous message to put out to impressionable young minds- no matter how cutesy you make it look. Look at how many of us who grew up in that era now idolize Elon Musk or Bill Gates.
Yes, I understand that people have cherished memories of some of these shows (just like young people today will someday look back fondly on the shows you feel comfortable criticizing), but being able to look back at the past with the nostalgia Goggles off, and be honest about the things that shaped our values is a part of maturing and growing as people. If the only defense you have of such programs is that they are ‘cherished memories’- that seems weak af tbh.
And btw, you friend is absolutely right. Zootopia is 100% copaganda. Just like 1000 other TV programs and movies in our culture. The fact that portraying cops as unambiguous ‘good guys’ is far and away the norm, but even the mildest of critiques such as Zootopia being copoganda sticks out as silly to you is the reason why it’s important to call stuff like this out when we see it.
I’m really tired of losing because we can’t figure out what people actually need to hear to make the world better.
People need to hear and wake up to reality. Coddling reactionary fragile egos isn’t going to accomplish that. Unflinchingly evaluating where we are and how we got here is the only way to do that- even if it makes people slightly uncomfortable for a moment.
I can’t understand how the current trendline doesn’t make every progressive or leftist back up and rethink everything we’re trying to do. We are seeing nazis marching with jackboots and we’re complaining about the jackboot industry. It’s fucking absurd.
It’s not the boots we are criticizing but literally the fact that they are Nazis. You want us to refrain from calling a Nazi a Nazi for fear that it might hurt their fragile little egos and alienate them. You seem to think that racism, sexism, and bigotry at little, insignificant problems and if we just stop complaining about them it will go away.
Racism, sexism, and bigotry may not affect YOU, but I bet you can guess the people they do affect. The people complaining about those things aren’t just doing it to hear themselves whine. They are sick and fucking tired of being discriminated against, and they have every right to demand they be treated as equals.
Yes, there is going to be push-back from reactionaries. They’ve been pushing back hard against equal treatment for all humans since before the civil war- the fought a whole god damn war to stop it ffs. Could you imagine if the people on the side of freedom and basic human dignity had simply capitulated when they saw where demanding the slaves be free was heading?
They pushed back when women wanted to vote. They pushed back when minorities wanted equal rights. They pushed back when gay people demanded fair treatment. The only way decent folk have ever made progress is by fighting. The only way we will continue to progress is by demanding equality for all humans and accepting no compromise. Burying our heads in the sand and capitulating to the Nazi’s WILL NOT make the Nazi’s see the error of their ways and bring them to our side, they will see that as weakness and confirmation that they have the right of it.
The problem is one of LACK of Education. It’s not talking about these issues. We will never, ever gain freedom and equality if we ignore the reality for the people that bigotry effects. The problem isn’t women, or minorities, or lgbtq people demeaning fair treatment, it’s that the ruling class has convinced working class conservatives that they are the enemy. That it’s ‘woke’ people who are making their lives suck, and not the Billionaires who treat the working class as slave labor. Not the right wing politicians (and that includes Democrats) who raise taxes on the poorest of us and to give to top 10%. That immigrants- the group of people with the lowest crime rates, who pay way more in taxes than they see the benefit from are the ones making the economy bad and crime high.
The ruling class has been successfully sewing a rift between the “left” and “conservatives” with a propaganda and misinformation campaign that goes back over 100 years. To McCarthy and Hoover. They pit the working class whites against the socialists and communists- the very people who are trying to free them. And what’s your solution? To keep quiet about the propaganda? To shut up about social and economic injustice? To roll over and allow the modern day McCarthies and Hoovers to win? We have to expose the lie.
We have to find a way to unite the people, but if you think that the marginalized groups are going to trust and work alongside the ones complicit in their disenfranchisement without the others putting in the work, while they are still tools of the oppressors- I just don’t understand why you think they would or should do that.
policing the minutia is literally killing us.
Equality (economic and social) isn’t “the minutia”- it’s literally the entire fucking point. Equality doesn’t just benefit the ‘woke’ crowd, it literally benefits everyone other than the ruling class.
They’re strictly literal; less than zero humanities education. These are the people who see a ‘warning: car may hit pedestrian!’ Sign and speed up and steer into the pedestrian.
Superman? Political?
I wanted to see if I could find this as a poster, but it only comes in 11" x 10" 😕
Looks like the original was a 12x18 book cover in 1949:
https://www.dc.com/blog/2017/08/25/superman-a-classic-message-restored
You might be able to take the 11x10 version and get it sized up at a print shop!
That’s a good, I’ll have to start looking around for some where willing to do it
I found framed original posters at auction for $3K to $4K.
11 x 17 reproductions here which is pretty much original size:
https://populousephemera.storenvy.com/collections/1465363-wholesale/products/18954292-superman-all-american-vintage-poster-print
Just print it yourself. Tons of poster printing services online for cheap. I used PosterBurner last time and it was good. But probably others are fine. Not a promotion. Just what I used.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/gokaygokay/AuraSR-v2
Can use this website to upscale the original image so it’s higher resolution.
Huggingface has all the AI photo upscale models so check out others if you don’t like the results.
Some others below.
https://huggingface.co/collections/John6666/spaces-for-image-upscaler-upsampler-resizer-66823815bdfb5af9bf875f84
Don’t use the “upscale your image for free” sites because they’re just garbage ads on top of these open source models.
The poster website will say what minimum resolution they need to print usually. So just scale it until you reach that. Zoom in to the photo though and make sure no weird artifacts appear. They’ll be more obvious once printed.
Good luck!
Wow, thanks for the step by step!
Weird. I don’t get that. But you can definitely try other sites. One in the US if you’re in the states. Tarrifs are garbage for getting anything like this. I think even FedEx will print posters. But probably more expensive.
Important thing is making sure the image is high enough resolution for the size you want.
I ended up ordering the poster from a near by shop. I live in Germany, so that might have been the problem 😅
Nice. Yeah that might have been the problem. Thought I mentioned US based in my original post but I guess not.
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Nice! Thanks for sharing. Looks great.
Normally I can order stuff from America without problems, but I guess not this time.
Link?
Sorry I took so long to reply. Here’s the poster.
And I double checked the size it’s 11x17 inches
Thank you!
Reminds me of this video made by the department of war after WW2. Americans today should watch these videos
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I first noticed this a few years back when I started to see “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong” on bumper stickers. Sure it seemed like a joke at the time but I was confused that so many people thought this was a statement worth putting on their vehicle. I mean, pretty early on in the OT, Darth Vader uses the Death Star to murder an entire planet so surely no one was serious, right?
Whoooo boy have I learned a lot about my neighbors’ values since then.
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Yeah, being able to plan and do more than just react is apparently a shockingly low percentage of our population.
They have a couple “truths” they tell themselves and hope everything else just falls into like or will complain to someone else to do something about it so that it does. Listen to the hymns in a church some time and listen to how people talk about God. Its very lazy
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“We can learn a lot about people’s intentions just by how they interact with fictional media.” A statement I would have ridiculed people for a few years ago. But it’s true and it’s sad that we even have to now.
When I found out about the 501st Legion, I was absolutely baffled. George Lucas dressed the bad guys to look like Nazis, and now fans were dressing up as the bad guys because they love the movies so much? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Then Captain America came out and people started dressing as Hydra agents, and I was like, “Oh, they’re just straight-up okay with Nazis. Got it.”
I had the impression the 501st was a different beast from “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong” types. I thought the point of them being stormtroopers was so everyone else had someone to heroically oppose? Their charity events seem to focus on things like kids shooting them with dart guns.
I’m not saying they haven’t been co-opted since I learned about them several years ago; but last I knew, they were happy playing bad guys to let other people be good guys.
I mean, cartoons from when I was a kid were problematic in different ways.
G.I. Joe taught me that the U.S. Military were the good guys and ‘Cobra’ were the bad guys. While I’m sure Cobra was probably bad, I’m not so sure about the first part. Also, guns are less dangerous than pepper spray and never lethal. On the other hand it also taught me that no matter how hard the GI’s fought against the bad guys, they would never stop them for long or truly defeat them, so I guess that it wasn’t wholly inaccurate.
Ducktales taught me that miserly Billionaires that hoarded vast amounts of wealth were lovable good guys actually.
I’m not even going to get into what Thundercats taught me.
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Well I was half joking, but it seems to me like you are promoting a pretty big double standard here. You start off by saying “We can start with motherfucking saturday morning cartoons where they clearly showed who the bad guys are and what it means to be a bad guy.” So you are clearly criticizing something you find fault with (aka problematic) about modern cartoons (I’m not sure what, I don’t really watch cartoons anymore) but turn around and say I shouldn’t criticize “Problematic” things in “iconic” programs. Then you turn around once more and criticize them your own self in that they were glorified toy commercials, which is a good point. Things can be problematic in more than one way.
I agree that we should teach kids right from wrong (who are the good guys and who are the bad guys), but if you then portray the U.S. Military as ‘The good guys’ I have a problem with that. I bet a lot of kids who grew up idolizing the Joes ended up joining the military themselves, only to be forced to help overthrow democratically elected leaders in Central and South America, or protecting the U.S.'s ability to buy oil or opium products for cheap by murdering brown folks in the middle east. In my view, the U.S. Military haven’t unambiguously been “the good guys” since 1945, and even then the way that war ended was problematic as hell, and I’m not joking about that.
It’s irrelevant that Scrooge is a Duck, the message that some billionaires aren’t the scum of the Earth is a dangerous message to put out to impressionable young minds- no matter how cutesy you make it look. Look at how many of us who grew up in that era now idolize Elon Musk or Bill Gates.
Yes, I understand that people have cherished memories of some of these shows (just like young people today will someday look back fondly on the shows you feel comfortable criticizing), but being able to look back at the past with the nostalgia Goggles off, and be honest about the things that shaped our values is a part of maturing and growing as people. If the only defense you have of such programs is that they are ‘cherished memories’- that seems weak af tbh.
And btw, you friend is absolutely right. Zootopia is 100% copaganda. Just like 1000 other TV programs and movies in our culture. The fact that portraying cops as unambiguous ‘good guys’ is far and away the norm, but even the mildest of critiques such as Zootopia being copoganda sticks out as silly to you is the reason why it’s important to call stuff like this out when we see it.
People need to hear and wake up to reality. Coddling reactionary fragile egos isn’t going to accomplish that. Unflinchingly evaluating where we are and how we got here is the only way to do that- even if it makes people slightly uncomfortable for a moment.
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It’s not the boots we are criticizing but literally the fact that they are Nazis. You want us to refrain from calling a Nazi a Nazi for fear that it might hurt their fragile little egos and alienate them. You seem to think that racism, sexism, and bigotry at little, insignificant problems and if we just stop complaining about them it will go away.
Racism, sexism, and bigotry may not affect YOU, but I bet you can guess the people they do affect. The people complaining about those things aren’t just doing it to hear themselves whine. They are sick and fucking tired of being discriminated against, and they have every right to demand they be treated as equals.
Yes, there is going to be push-back from reactionaries. They’ve been pushing back hard against equal treatment for all humans since before the civil war- the fought a whole god damn war to stop it ffs. Could you imagine if the people on the side of freedom and basic human dignity had simply capitulated when they saw where demanding the slaves be free was heading?
They pushed back when women wanted to vote. They pushed back when minorities wanted equal rights. They pushed back when gay people demanded fair treatment. The only way decent folk have ever made progress is by fighting. The only way we will continue to progress is by demanding equality for all humans and accepting no compromise. Burying our heads in the sand and capitulating to the Nazi’s WILL NOT make the Nazi’s see the error of their ways and bring them to our side, they will see that as weakness and confirmation that they have the right of it.
The problem is one of LACK of Education. It’s not talking about these issues. We will never, ever gain freedom and equality if we ignore the reality for the people that bigotry effects. The problem isn’t women, or minorities, or lgbtq people demeaning fair treatment, it’s that the ruling class has convinced working class conservatives that they are the enemy. That it’s ‘woke’ people who are making their lives suck, and not the Billionaires who treat the working class as slave labor. Not the right wing politicians (and that includes Democrats) who raise taxes on the poorest of us and to give to top 10%. That immigrants- the group of people with the lowest crime rates, who pay way more in taxes than they see the benefit from are the ones making the economy bad and crime high.
The ruling class has been successfully sewing a rift between the “left” and “conservatives” with a propaganda and misinformation campaign that goes back over 100 years. To McCarthy and Hoover. They pit the working class whites against the socialists and communists- the very people who are trying to free them. And what’s your solution? To keep quiet about the propaganda? To shut up about social and economic injustice? To roll over and allow the modern day McCarthies and Hoovers to win? We have to expose the lie.
We have to find a way to unite the people, but if you think that the marginalized groups are going to trust and work alongside the ones complicit in their disenfranchisement without the others putting in the work, while they are still tools of the oppressors- I just don’t understand why you think they would or should do that.
Equality (economic and social) isn’t “the minutia”- it’s literally the entire fucking point. Equality doesn’t just benefit the ‘woke’ crowd, it literally benefits everyone other than the ruling class.
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They’re strictly literal; less than zero humanities education. These are the people who see a ‘warning: car may hit pedestrian!’ Sign and speed up and steer into the pedestrian.
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