Surfer Crew/Folk Heroes/Cold-Blooded Murderers

Buying silkscreened posters on Etsy is a dangerous game...there are just so damn many of them, and most often the design is mediocre. But I kind of like this "Surf Crew" one from Slidesideways.



But then there is a very weird Ned Kelly look to their heads, which I think is unintentional since the designers aren't Australian and probably don't know about the Aussie outlaw/folk hero best recognized by his homemade headgear:



Rifling around the National Library of Australia's online collection of National Treasures did reveal that Ned undeniably had a way with words, referring to some policemen as "a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Bailiffs or english landlords." Thank you, Ned. Anyway, being an Aussiephile, I saw the Heath Ledger movie in theatres (possibly in Australia--was it even released in the US?) but unfortunately not the Mick Jagger version. In the end, folk hero or not, it's a sad story that ends badly, so yeah, I think the Ned Kelly masks sort of ruin it for me.