The Phil Ashworth Store for Super Cool Gifts

It's that time of year again; To support the small people trying to do big things! Oh, and buy your loved ones some super rad gifts. If you just don't know what to get your cat, coffee, rat, neon sign, soul music, Snake Plissken loving friends this year well, I am here for you. Get those orders in asap before it's too late!!

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"Call me Snake"

I think for the last 5 years I've been meaning to do this and I think a lot of people wanted me to do it purely based off the fact I made a choking poster based off Escape From New York. Well, here it is! I finally went and done did it and went full Snake Plissken all over Halloween's ass. Even whipped up some homemade shin guards and Snake's wrist watch counting down how much time he has until the microscopic capsules burst inside the arteries in his neck.

Took it on down to Jonathan Toubin's Haunted Hop at the Knockdown Center and shot about 5 pictures the whole night! The 3 below are Death Valley Girls, Hank Wood and The Hammerheads, who put on an amazing show, and the man of the hour, Roky Erickson! 

Escape From Choking in NY prints are back!

Escape From Choking in New York prints are back by popular demand!! Link below.

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Escape from Choking in New York prints are back!!!

You've read about it in the New York Times!! You've seen it in Bloomberg Businessweek!! You've heard about it on NPR's Studio 360!! And now YOU can own your very own Escape from Choking in New York print!! Let Snake Plissken show you how to protect your customers with these 7 easy steps. Available on my site at: http://philashworth.com/artwork/3320516.html

Soul Clap Prints Available!!!!

There are 3 new prints available on my site. All of them are the most recent Soul Clap posters I've done. Only a small amount were made so get one while you can!

In honor of Spring, I've decided that the Boss of Hearts and Escape From Choking in New York are going to be discounted a cool 40% so I can Spring clean and you can have a kick ass print for cheap. Both these and the Soul Clap prints can be found by clicking on portfolio and going to the prints section on my site.

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Choking Poster: Round 2

Welp, here they are, folks! Due to an overwhelming and deafening cry from the hordes of fans out there, I decided to go and get a second edition printed of the "Escape From Choking in New York" choking poster. There's only 10 in this run and 3 have already been spoken for so if you'd like one, please act fast!! The link on my site will be back up after the holidaaaaaaazzzzeee but for now please email me at pashwort@gmail.com if you are interested in purchasing one.

Juxtapoz Lovin'

Okay. I know I've about wrung this baby dry with all the recent attention but, this really was a high point for me. I figured one more mention of this baby's unstoppable quest to make you laugh and save a friend, or strangers, life would be okay. It's been a good run but I swear I'm done with the shameless promoting of this thing. It is time to make some new work.

Bloomberg Businessweek and Snake Plissken

Snake Plissken and his fine-tuned techniques for preventing your premature death have been given the Bloomberg treatment and were showcased on Bloomberg Businessweek along with 6 other artists who have reinterpreted those average, boring choking posters into pure design bliss. Thanks to Sam Kolich and Venessa Wong for including me in this fine line-up. Click on the link below for the whole shebangin' article.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-01/designers-try-to-make-restaurant-choking-posters-hip-dot-oh-boy

Summertime Showtime

These three, along with some other pieces, are up in the Gimme! Coffee Mott St. location in NYC for the month of June. There are still some prints available of "Boss of Hearts" and "Escape From Choking in New York" on my site: www.philashworth.com Get one before they are gone FOR-EV-ER!

Snake givin the heimlich all over the place.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/all-safety-posters-should-star-snake-plissken/

Duuude. Thanks for the love y'all.

Escape from Choking in New York prints

Escape from Choking in New York prints are here and ready to go. Limited run of 25. Catch me on the street, or if you live far away, check out my website to have one mailed to you.

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Escape from Choking in New York

Just wrapped up this choking poster project for a coffee shop in Brooklyn where I work a few days a week. The manager and I are fans of Escape From New York/John Carpenter films so we almost immediately thought of this idea and knew it was too fun to pass up. It’s been receiving some positive responses from people so I’ve decided prints are next. I’ll be posting about their availability shortly. Below are some process pics.

NYC's Gritty Children of Film

Travis Bickle gonna blow you away with some Gimme! Coffee. I altered the quote slightly, so don't jump on my case if you notice it's not verbatim to what he says in the film.

all of these characters/movies played a role in my fascination and subsequent move to NYC. While they're all portraying negative sides of the city, I couldn't help but be drawn into the world that would create them. Plus it was only 5 hours away from where I was comfortably viewing them on my mom's t.v! I'm not sad that when I moved here, these worlds didn't exist, because who really wants to be worrying about getting eaten by a C.H.U.D. all the time? Just day to day life here is stressful enough. But, I think the energy and creativity of the city that spawned them is what I really came for anyways. 

However, I can say some of that alienation and loneliness of Travis Bickle's world is still around. I think the popularity of OKCupid is proof enough of that.