Last month, in the depressed aftermath of the country’s financial collapse, the Best Party emerged as the biggest winner in Reykjavik’s elections, with 34.7 percent of the vote, and Mr. Gnarr — who also promised a classroom of kindergartners he would build a Disneyland at the airport — is now the fourth mayor in four years of a city that is home to more than a third of the island’s 320,000 people.
Posted: July 6, 2010 at 4:20 pm.
An iphone app to bring to design degree shows. The app was created by design students as self-effacing humor / satiric commentary on the design school experience. Fun!
http://www.clichespotting.com/
Posted: June 28, 2010 at 1:00 pm.
Emotional and persuasive perception of fonts.
Posted: May 7, 2010 at 12:06 pm.
Rejected Fortune Cover by Chris Ware
A satire in miniature on the structure of the global economy.
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Posted: April 26, 2010 at 3:27 pm.
Posted: April 21, 2010 at 11:25 pm.
Posted: December 22, 2009 at 7:23 am.
Meta Bumper Stickers
Posted: November 24, 2009 at 5:29 pm.
Satire fail from The Onion Store: “My friend went to Thailand and all I got was this lousy kidnapped prostitute.” The product description for this item reads “Prostitute not included.”
Human trafficking is funny? Really? Where is the punchline here?
Onion Store > My Friend Went to Thailand and All I Got Was This Lousy Prostitute - NEW!
Posted: September 7, 2009 at 11:36 am.
A study conducted by Ohio State University studying political satire via The Colbert Report.
…There was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism.
Heh. In other words, the conservatives don’t get the joke.
Posted: April 28, 2009 at 2:52 pm.
The #1 Rule of Satire
If the people you are claiming to mock can use your image to straight-facedly support their own argument/cause, then you’ve failed.
Case in point. Note that I’m linking to this as it is a perfect example of what not to do. The image in question is undoubtably racist and deplorable. (I don’t approve of anything else you might find at this guy’s website either.)
What I find so interesting about this is that it’s the New Yorker cover all over again, just on a smaller scale. But because it didn’t get the attention that the New Yorker did, this time a racist group found it, misunderstood that it was intended as “satire,” and published the image in their newsletter.
The lesson here is: if you want to mock racism, then satirize racists, not race.
Posted: October 22, 2008 at 10:22 am.
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