![]() This is both in the sense of tarot card reading (since the origin of tarot cards is muddled with the time frame of the adoption of regular playing cards), and in the sense that the Ace represented a mark. However, the Ace of Spades is also associated with death. Others have claimed that the Ace represents the people, the peasantry, and during the French Revolution it became a popular notion to show the revolt by placing the Ace as the high card over the royalty. ![]() Some have used the example that the Ace represents God, and thus the high card. The Ace, though originally the lowest card in value, was switched to the highest value in many decks. The original fame of the Ace of Spades came because in games like Poker, where you can assign a value to a suit so that you know which hand beats which if there are duplicates, the Spades were considered the highest suit. However, the infamy presented by this card is a relatively recent phenomenon, as the history of playing cards goes. However, perhaps the most famous playing card in the entire deck is the Ace of Spades. 54 cards, with 4 suits and 2 optional Jokers is the standard makeup, and it includes all the usual playing card celebrities like the Suicide King and the One-Eyed Jacks (or the knaves if you prefer). ![]() In addition he has designed posters, and collateral merchandise for movies such as Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Kill Bill I and Kill Bill II.Anyone who’s ever sat down at a Blackjack table or passed a friendly and endless game of War has seen a deck of cards. His work has been distributed internationally as part of tour merchandise, and his package design work was contracted by General Foods, and WalMart. After his self described sell out in 1992 to the design industry, he began his career in art by working first as a production, artist, illustrator, and then designer of merchandise and posters for touring rock icons which include: Eric Clapton, John Lennon (via Yoko Ono), Cream, Queen, ZZ Top, The Stray Cats, Brian Setzer and a host of others under contract with BMG and Sony Music. Prior to his art career, Dan worked at a variety of manual labor jobs from assembly line work, to steel worker, to dock worker. His article on sustainable design, and how to combat the process of creating desire when a need does not exist was published as part of a journal on new approaches to educating in the Library of Congress in 2011, and his continuing research into the neuroaesthetics realm attempts to begin the process of studying art as a science. Louis MO, and San Francisco CA in the AIGA Compost Modern Show. His “popes as candy wrappers” series was included in a group show in Rome in 2017, and he has been part of group exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA, for an underground poster art show, Denver CO, Portland OR, St. He has exhibited in a variety of traditional print, and digital mediums appearing in shows in Sofia, Bulgaria where a series of screen prints were exhibited in an International Juried Exhibition, while two of his paintings were included in Barcelona’s 2017 Exhibition. Pieces of his work Pin Ball Philosophy Series were featured in the 'New York Now' exhibition in 2015 where he depicted religious icons as the subject matter in pinball game displays. Mutato Explains it all," was published in the "International Show Against Nuclear Testing,” Catalog as well as being part of the United Nations exhibition in New York and Vienna in 2016. In that vein, his ironic pieces parodying the nuclear civil defense posters of the 1950s entitled ’Thank God for the Atomic Bomb,” and ‘Dr. Dan May’s been finding the humor in the world of power, politics, entertainment, and religion for the past twenty years in his design work for Fortune 500 companies, as well as his personal work.
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