Hong points out ornate Chinese clan houses, an abandoned photographer's studio with 1960s black and white prints in the window and a Madras textile shop, where the aged assistants still wear dhotis, scribble sales into a dusty, giant ledger, and an ancient poster on the wall proclaims that their checked sarongs were once Made in British India.
A series of shots of faded, ancient wall posters is particularly notable for one that reveals a vivid portrait of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo covered by a heavy network of cracks, and for another of an eroded ad, presumably for a girlie show.
The principle is simple: choose old images of ancient paintings, posters, or logos from public digital libraries Europeana, Trove, and DigitalNZ and breathe life into them.
The hacienda is now run by three brothers who have dedicated it to the life of the charro, a Mexican cowboy, with bullfighting posters, ancient branding irons and rusted rifles on the walls.
If your locker has ancient stickers or posters on its walls, get rid of them.
In his ramshackle office, the most impressive decorations are an ancient Nixon campaign poster and a portrait of Ace, one of the two animated superheroes who make up the Ambiguously Gay Duo on "Saturday Night Live".
That fractional increase may soon mean more childhood bedrooms, with ancient teddies and decrepit posters, are vacated by millenials with new employment elsewhere.
The fleeting glimpse of posters for ancient aperitifs in phantasmagoric ghost stations, like Croix-Rouge, on Line 10, and St.-Martin, on Line 8, closed during the Second World War and never reopened.
In the early 1900s, the posters used ancient Greek figures to represent the ethos of the Olympics.
Posters are an ancient art form, used in antiquity as a form of public communication.
