I swear, it’s getting to the point where there’s just so much bullshit it’s mind-numbing. (Which, I suppose, is the point)
Today’s batch:
…and still no mass-media coverage of the Downing Street Memo.
If you need a clearer view of what sort of country we’re living in now, check out this lovely poster which has cropped up in MARC (Baltimore to DC) commuter trains:
(…and yes, that’s real. Not a spoof.)
I heard a story about the Downing Street memo on NPR…yesterday. And they are preaching to the choir. Sigh.
Wow, that’s… um… very reminiscent of communist propaganda posters.
Fuck me…
that poster is so USSR c. 1965 it’s scary.
makes the great white north look even more appealing
Someone put forth the theory that the poster was designed that way deliberately as a statement by the artist, and MARC didn’t catch on.
Which would be cool. But very doubtful.
The graphic design types I work with thought it was precisely that, too. And given what I’ve seen them slip past some customers, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
The ad agency, “The Robin Shepherd Group”, won a Silver ADDY Award for the campaign, from the American Advertising Federation (list of winners here), which makes me wonder if everybody but the client realizes that it is satiric commentary.
At least I *HOPE* that’s what it was.
Why would anyone report anything to an UnderWorld GM? *rimshot*
That was exactly my thought. The artist having a laugh and the people in charge too dumb to notice…)
(coming in via
My partner tells me that a few years ago Bankwest, a Western Australia Bank, ran an entire ad campaign made up almost exclusively of gay iconage. The theme song was even “Go West” by Pet Shop Boys. The people running the Bank had no idea. So in light of that, one little poster is entirely possible. Besides, you never know how many people in the chain were quite content to “overlook” the similarity. hehe