The internal propaganda used during the Iraq War looks like a parody of itself, but is sadly real.
Posted: May 26, 2009 at 7:47 am.
May 26
7:47 am
Apr 22
12:07 pm
Pasadena Weekly - Babies & BiblesI just spent nearly two hours of my time to get an admittedly unreliable pregnancy test, erroneous medical information and find out more than I ever wanted to know about the life of a sexless 35-year-old bass player.
This is a licensed medical clinic. It’s usually safe to assume that medical clinics provide medical care. But if you have the capacity to bear children, those rules apparently don’t apply. If a cancer clinic were run as a Christian Scientist front there would be anger.
Posted: April 22, 2009 at 12:07 pm.
Oct 20
4:29 pm
By fetishizing working class signifiers (“Joe,” generic t-shirt style retro graphics, the appeal to self-projecting couch potatoes), McCain is continuing his galling disingenuousness, stringing along and bribing Main Street to vote back in a structure that will benefit the Wall Streeters and the gated-in denizens of Vista Drive at Main Street’s expense.
Posted: October 20, 2008 at 4:29 pm.
Aug 25
11:01 am
The difference between art and propaganda...
…needs to be explained to the peeps at MoveOn.
Posted: August 25, 2008 at 11:01 am.
Aug 20
11:11 am
Yes We Can Art: The Nervous, Worshiping Iconography of Candidate Obama
BLVD owner Damian Hayes says he supports the candidate, but he questions why so many artists are making these. ‘I don’t know if I’m being cynical, but sometimes it feels as though some artists are capitalizing,’ he said. ‘I mean, it always works to go with the winner.’
No duh. Lately it seems that the fast ticket for either selling posters or getting a shout-out on the design blogs is to vectorize Obama’s face, slap it over a starburst, set a word like “hope” or “change” in a bold sans-serif and charge $49.99 for it.
None of them tell me anything I don’t know (he’s inspiring!) or bring a new level of commentary to the discussion. But the people keep making them ‘cause the kids keep buying them.
Hopefully the author of the above quoted article is correct and once the election’s over we’ll actually start to see some interesting Obama related art.
Posted: August 20, 2008 at 11:11 am.
Aug 20
9:13 am
Art made with repurposed elements from Chinese propaganda posters.
Posted: August 20, 2008 at 9:13 am.
Jul 9
9:21 am
I came for the barbarian Mikal Gorbachev and erotic twinkies, but stayed for the communist poster graphics combined with b-movie-esque live-action ridiculousness.
So amazing, I watched it twice.
(See also: Putin as dance club anthem.)
A video for a tribute song to Mikal Gorbachev by Russian metal band ANJ. It involves zombies, lasers, an axe-wielding barbarian Gorbachev, and phallic Twinkies. And I’m kinda speechless.
Posted: July 9, 2008 at 9:21 am.
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