Boris Pleša

Ticking Away

Joker
"Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?"

HAL 9000
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent — but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
— Stanley Kubrick

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Queen
"I always knew I was a star. And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me."
— Freddie Mercury

Charles Bukowski
"Stay with the beer. Beer is continuous blood. A continuous lover."

Let

Cosmogony
"And they say back then
Our universe was a cold black egg
Until the God inside burst out
And from its shattered shell
He made what became
The world we know"
— Bjork

Nina Simone
"I'll tell you what freedom is to me — no fear!"

Kraftwerk
"There is no beginning and no end in music."
— Florian Schneider

Hi

Jimi Hendrix
"The time I burned my guitar, it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."

Miles Davis
"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."

Mickey Mouse
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
— Walt Disney

Frank Sinatra
"Cock your hat - angles are attitudes."

One Size Fits All

Bob Dylan
"There is nothing so stable as change."

Johnny Rotten
"If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right."

Friends
Those two are Joey and Chandler, if you must know.

Purple Rain
"Music is real. It affects people."
— Prince

Diego Maradona
"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me."

Wine
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
— Fran Lebowitz

Jack Nicholson
"My motto is: more good times."

Franz Kafka
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

Friend In Need

Amelie
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

All That You Do
One of my Dark Side Of The Moon hommages. All the titles from this series are taken from Pink Floyd's song Eclipse.

No No No
"I wrote 'Satisfaction' in my sleep. I had no idea I'd written it, it's only thank God for the little Philips cassette player. The miracle being that I looked at the cassette player that morning and I knew I'd put a brand-new tape in the previous night, and I saw it was at the end."
— Keith Richards 

Bitter Sweet Symphony

Summertime

Alfred Nobel
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

Lost & Found
"Some things were better lost than found."
— Stephen King

I'm Fine
I'm a big fan of 'Friends'. One of my favourite episodes was 'The One Where Ross Is Fine'.

Louis Armstrong
"Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is."

Syd Barrett
"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."

Ian Curtis
"All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective."

Monty Python's Flying Circus
"We interrupt this program to annoy you and make things generally more irritating."

Common Sense
"Common sense is not so common."
— Voltaire

Sound And Vision
"Don't you wonder sometimes, about sound and vision?"
— David Bowie

Mata Hari
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."

Download
I made this poster for a friend of mine who said he is changing the world sitting behind his computer in his bedroom.

Be
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
— Dalai Lama

Screen Time

Fisheyes

U2
"I don't like the name U2, actually."
— Bono

Memories Of Green

Eleven
"Friends don't lie."

Road
"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs."
— Tom Waits

Triskadekaphobia

Sour Times
"I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks."
― Douglas Adams

Finish Line

Peter Gabriel
"As many architects will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment."

Annie Leibovitz
"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."

Eye
"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."
— Rumi

Tuesday
According to a new study, scientists say that Tuesday is the most stressful day of the week. And to get really specific, stress level peak is at 11:45 on Tuesday morning.

Heart
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
— Charles Dickens

Piet Mondrian
"Art is the path to being spiritual."

Afred Hitchcock
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."

Black Mirror
"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last."
— Stephen Hawking

Interstellar
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
— Stephen Hawking

Watermellotron

Kramer
"You can be passionate about anything."
— Jerry Seinfeld

Water
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
— Leonardo da Vinci

Cats
"If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way."
— Mark Twain

Charlie Chaplin
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

Federico Fellini
"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."

Boris Bućan
Thank you, Maestro.

Escapism

The Warriors
"This is what we fought all night to get back to?"

Punk
"I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick."
— Vivienne Westwood

Starless
"Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black"
— King Crimson

Music Non Stop
"Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago."
— Tom Waits

Taxi Driver
"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say: There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world. That's it."
— Robert De Niro

Superheroes
This graphic is my thank you note to all the medical workers around the globe who were on the frontline during the pandemic. You guys are superheroes.

John Lennon
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

Blondie
"I could be a housewife. I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times."
— Debbie Harry

Tom Waits
"The piano has been drinking, not me."

Martin Scorsese
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

John Cleese
"A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people."

Nikola Tesla
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."

Starman
"I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension."
— David Bowie

Monolith
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All That You See
One of my Dark Side Of The Moon hommages. All the titles from this series are taken from Pink Floyd's song Eclipse.

Johnny Cash
"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."

KISS
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", supposedly said Leonardo da Vinci. Half a millenium later, somebody came up with a KISS, a catchy acronym that stands for a design principle 'Keep it simple, stupid'. It states that most things in life work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated. In other words, simplicity should be a key goal in design. Sounds about right, right?

High Hopes
"Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us, to a glimpse of how green it was on the other side."

Bjork
I don't know much about fashion but I know that Bjork's Swan Dress is one of the greatest pieces of clothes I've ever seen. And it was a perfect match — she was the right person to wear it. This dress was being ridiculed at first, when she wore it at 2001 Oscars, but fifteen years later this piece of art ended up in MoMA in NYC. How about that, haters?

John Frusciante
"I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music."

Daft Punk
"Our only plan is to improvise."

Storm Thorgerson
"People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate."
Storm, my greatest hero.

Slavoj Žižek
"We need a wisdom of becoming aware what a fragile entity we are, we humans on Earth. We are not now being threatened by some intelligent aliens, but by the most stupid reproductive mechanism that one can imagine. It’s a good lesson in modesty."

Difference

Ella Fitzgerald
"Music is the universal language."

Straw

Present
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now."
― George Harrison

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Thom Yorke
"Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there."

Kill Bill
Each time when I think of this Tarantino's love/betrayal/revenge extravaganza, there's always one killer song from the movie in my mind — Malcolm McLaren's version of ’She's Not There' by The Zombies from the early sixties + a little bit of Bessie Smith from the twenties. The song is called 'About Her' and I often listen to it on repeat.

Amy Winehouse
"Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts."

File Save
One command to rule them all. If you're spending a lot of time behind a computer screen, working, I think you'll agree with me. And if I was a chief editor of Life magazine this would be one of the covers. I'm sure no one would mind the intentional misprint.

Grace Jones
"Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining."

All You Create
One of my Dark Side Of The Moon hommages. All the titles from this series are taken from Pink Floyd's song Eclipse.

Jim Morrison
"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

Ian Fleming
"Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life."

Zagreb
Zagreb, my hometown, has the shortest public-transport funicular in the world. It's 66 metres long and it takes approximately the same number of seconds to cross the distance.

Carl Sagan
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Stray Cat

Circle
"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."
— Nikola Tesla

Future
"There's no future, no future, no future for you."
— Sex Pistols

Lifebyrinth
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
— Oscar Wilde

Blade Runner
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Janis Joplin
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"

Nick Hornby
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."

Music
"Music fathoms the sky."
— Charles Baudelaire

Tyrion Lannister

Paul McCartney

Groucho Marx
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."

Isaac Asimov
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Spacetime

Pleasure
Couldn't agree more, Mr. Eames.

Drop
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."
— Lao Tzu

Deeper Underground

Rhapsody In Blue
"I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise."
— George Gershwin

Mom

Little Black Dress
"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
— Coco Chanel

The White Stripes
"Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me."
— Meg White

Today

Record Collection
"Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album. And it’s not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive."
— Jack White

Vincent van Gogh
"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

Moby
"I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist."

Forest
"The fundamental issue is the moral issue."
— David Attenborough

Reservoir Dogs
"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."
— Quentin Tarantino

Star Wars

Alps
"The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far."
— Paulo Coelho

Kurt Cobain
"I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play."

Groundhog Day
"Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing."
— Bill Murray

Off The Grid
The space where life happens.

The Who
In 1976 The Who earned the Guinness World Record for the Globe’s Loudest Band. Loudness was measured at 126 dB.

Marilyn Monroe
"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."

Space Oddity
"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human."
— David Bowie

Bob Marley
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

Nick Cave
"You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand."

Wish You Were Here
"Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?"

Frank Zappa
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."

All That You Taste
One of my Dark Side Of The Moon hommages. All the titles from this series are taken from Pink Floyd's song Eclipse.

Error
"Honor thy error as a hidden intention."
— Brian Eno

Ray Charles
"What is a soul? It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."

London Calling

Virus
I made this graphic during the first lockdown. I tried to portray one ordinary person regardless of gender, age or race (i.e. you or me), who was staying home imprisoned by the pandemic but was willing to accept everything that was happening as just another ordinary pajama party — minus guests.

Beck
"I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record."

David Gilmour
"It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do."

Rachael
"Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."
— Rick Deckard

Clint Eastwood
"I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it."

Moon River
I love this song. According to Johnny Mercer - the man who wrote the lyrics - the song is both about looking to the future and to the past. There's many versions of this song but one that tops them all for me is the one sung by Audrey Hepburn. I also love Kid Koala's version, probably because in his mix he used her rendition, too.

Pablo Picasso
"Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

WTF
"Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance."
— Moby

Where Is My Mind
"With your feet on the air and your head on the ground."

Marvin Gaye

Morpheus
"You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

All That's To Come
One of my Dark Side Of The Moon hommages. All the titles from this series are taken from Pink Floyd's song Eclipse.

404
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
— Anais Nin

Jack Kerouac
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

Aretha Franklin
"I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is."

Sir Christopher Lee
An actor. A wizard. And a heavy metal singer.

Everything Under The Sun

Beer
"Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems."
— Homer Simpson

Slash
"I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do."

Fab Four
"They became the closest friends I'd ever had. Suddenly I had three brothers. We really looked out for each other and we had so many laughs together. In the old days we'd have the biggest hotel suites, the whole floor of the hotel, and the four of us would end up in the bathroom, just to be with each other."
— Ringo Starr

1:1
"Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs".
— Jay Leno

Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without music, life would be a mistake." Having in mind Mr. Nietzsche's frightening moustaches (not to mention his frightening mind), I have no choice but to agree with him.

Mies van der Rohe / Milton Glaser
"Less is more" is a phrase adopted in late forties by great German architect Mies van der Rohe, one of pioneers of modernist architecture. Years later, Milton Glaser, famous American graphic designer, thinker and humanist said "Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more". Maybe it's fair to say — Mies: 1, Glaser: 1.

Daily
"The snooze alarm is based on the idea that when it goes off, you’re not getting up. You’re not even awake yet, you’re already a failure. They should sell the snooze alarm with an unemployment application and a bottle of tequila. Just make it a complete pathetic-loser kit."
— Jerry Seinfeld

Salvador Dali
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."

The Beatles
"We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, we hope you will enjoy the show."

The End
"In the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love
You make"

Over The Rainbow

Albert Camus
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

Richard Wright
"For me, playing music is like meditating — I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen."

Work
"Art Is Work."
— Milton Glaser

Roy Lichtenstein
In my work I always try to use as less graphic elements and colours as possible. When I was trying to find the proper approach to make a minimalistic graphic that could represent Mr. Lichtenstein's work, I suddenly came to a simplest possible conclusion. I said to myself: just dot it.

Iggy Pop
"I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.' I think I'm the greatest, anyway."

Christopher Walken
"I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own."

All That You Say
One of my Dark Side Of The Moon hommages. All the titles from this series are taken from Pink Floyd's song Eclipse.

Mark Twain
This brilliant man's brain was one of the most amusing places that ever existed on this planet. Luckily, some parts of that place are still accessible to us. I call this "A Mark Twain Therapy". All you have to do is to open a new tab in your browser and type "mark twain quotes".

Shane MacGowan
"Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result."

War

Any Colour You Like

Scissors
"A gentleman never talks about his tailor."
— Nick Cave

Two Lost Souls
Year after year.

Gandalf
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."

Yin And Yang

Truman Capote
"Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe."

Friday
Friday the 13th is still better than Monday the whatever.

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1 AM
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
— Rene Descartes

Sun
"In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy."
— Stephen Hawking

Led Zeppelin
"I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile."
— Robert Plant

Yellow Submarine
"There's no outdoing The Beatles."
— Brian Wilson

Chain Smoking

Corto Maltese
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
— Hugo Pratt

Ocean
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
— Arthur C. Clarke

Sigur Ros

Her
"It's hard for me to put my feelings into words."
— Joaquin Phoenix

Ernest Hemingway
"Courage is grace under pressure."

Edith Piaf
"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."

J.R.R. Tolkien
"Courage is found in unlikely places."

Lemmy Kilmister
"People don't know how to be outrageous anymore."

Bruce Springsteen
"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."

Oscar Wilde
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Us And Them
"No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard."
— Gene Roddenberry

Ennio Morricone
"They're all my children... every score I've done."

The Ship Song
"Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down"
— Nick Cave