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9 Odd and Awesome 2014 Calendars
You have to have a great calendar on your wall that will keep your interest every month through the year 2014. Try something new and different with one of these strange and wonderful offerings. We'll start with some calendars we've never featured before.
1. NYC Taxi Drivers
The NYC Taxi Drivers 2014 Beefcake Calendar takes liberties with what most of us would consider "beefcake." It features real taxi drivers in their everyday work lives. They volunteered their time and images because the calendar will benefit University Settlement, an organization that provides a range of services to lift New York City families out of poverty.
2. Sexy Monsters
Artists and photographers can put anything on a calendar, but it's funnier when you try to fit something completely unsexy into the classic idea of a pinup calendar. Erika Deoudes illustrated your favorite movie monsters and aliens in classic pinup poses for her Calendar of Sexy Monsters. The calendars are available in various formats at her Etsy store, where you can also get individual monster prints.
3. Darth Vader and Son
When you think of famous fathers, Darth Vader should come to mind. Yeah, we make enough Fathers Day jokes about it every year. But you can have that fuzzy warm feeling about the Sith Lord all year long with the Darth Vader and Son 2014 Wall Calendar! This calendar is from Jeffrey Brown, the author of the book Darth Vader and Son, about the fantasy interactions between Vader and young Luke.
4. The Warwick Rowers
The Warwick University Rowing Club (of the University of Warwick in England) has sold a calendar for every year since 2009, featuring their athletes in the altogether. Yes, they are nude, with tastefully-placed hands, accessories, or tall grass. Proceeds go to support the school's boating sports. And starting last year, the calendar is used in connection with Sports Allies, an organization fighting homophobia and bullying. The picture shown here is heavily cropped from the original. See more pictures at Buzzfeed (NSFW).
Oh yes, Warwick has a women's rowing team, too, and they are selling a nude calendar as well. They use a lot of oars as props.
5. Kanye with Pugs
An art group from Barcelona called Meet the Pugs pulled off a strange stunt by selling calendars on Kickstarter featuring Kanye West, his 12 most memorable quotes (for example: "My greatest pain in life is that I'll never be able to see myself perform live"), and pugs. The pug dogs were Photoshopped onto images of Kanye for each month. This unique calendar is now sold out, but you can see images at the Kickstarter page. The video on that page contains NSFW language. Some of the funders received multiple copies of the calendar, so they may be marketed elsewhere as limited edition collector's items. Meet the Pugs also has art prints from the project for sale.
6. Yoga Dudes
Yoga Trail invited their readers to submit photos for the 2014 Yoga Dudes Calendar, and got 800 submissions! Those were winnowed down to twelve that were published in a calendar that will benefit the Movember Foundation. You can see all 12 dudes at Yoga Trail. Only one of them is completely nude.
7. Animals from History
Artist Christina Hess illustrates historical figures as if they were cats and dogs! She published her Animals from History in an ebook, and has a calendar for 2014 featuring 13 of her illustrations. You can get it through her Etsy store for a mere $6.
8. Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar
Artist Noa Bembibre has been producing a limited-edition art calendar since 2005, different every year, but based on a continuing idea. Each month features a sentence or phrase in which the name of the month is hidden. See examples from previous years. The name of this project is a phrase that contains the word "calendar." Order your 2014 calendar here. Oh, you can also order cards and prints with custom names and phrases done this way!
9. Tattooed Librarians
Get ready to have your typical image of a librarian changed forever. The Rhode Island Library Association printed a calendar titled Tattooed Librarians of the Ocean State 2014. You might be surprised at the kind of ink these librarians selected! Sales of the calendars will benefit the Rhode Island Library Association. Sadly, the limited edition run of calendars has sold out, but you can see the images at Huffington Post.
And here are some links for 2014 editions of calendars that we've featured in previous years.