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I wash my hands of this... ;D
hahahaha
Possible alternate caption:
SOAP
These are all over the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus. Whether they are being obeyed is not so clear.
Not the clearest message they could provide...
Is there more to the sign than is shown?
OMG I took a photo of a dude washing his hands one time and this is CLEARLY a rip off of that. Bastards!!
I thought this whole Clinton thing had blown over ages ago?!?
On a seperate note I saw a girl today who had modded her jeans with a large "H1N1" print in large white letters over the bum region of her blue jeans.
Help me out with that one. please?
All I can think of is "Heini"?
something has happened to your commenters - where's all the dissent? the argument? have they all tired of it?here's one:
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
Just like Pontius Pilate, I wash my hands of this propaganda.
To be fair, I think the Russians may have started it.
While Shepard Fairey made have made this style popular recently with his Obama (and other) work, it would be quite ignorant of art history to suggest he invented this style or that he should be credited with it.
thank you @wfrancis That is quite true.
I still think the Wash Your Hands Dude is the best:
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/images/stories/_2006/IMAGES2/handwash.jpg
Exactly. I mean, if you didn't know any better, you'd think it was claiming that H1N1 was *caused* by washing your hands. Pseudo-Soviet iconography may be "clever" but not always the most informative.
Your interpretation is spot-on. My friends and I refer to it as heinie, but only because someone far funnier thought it up first.
something has happened to your commenters - where's all the dissent? the argument? have they all tired of it?
No, it's just you already missed it. 96 comments and counting...
What is beginning to piss me off is that pretty much every poster produced recently has this god damn colour scheme.
The even more annoying thing is that as people apropriate and reapropriate it, they slightly mis-match the colours each time so that their end product's colours don't really match the original at all, completely negating the reason for copying the colour scheme in the first place.
People will still get the apropriation without using the same colour scheme. It's the 4-tone stencil style and 4-letter tagline that are the real defining factors of Fairey's Obama image - not the 4 colours.
You should encourage your kids, or any child you have godlike rule over, to sing a song three times as they wash so they can be sure to get all those germs.
The song:
Stick your hands up your butt
What, what? What, what?
Stick your hands up your butt.
I really do not understand that is the thrill with these soviet propaganda style posters. It is not funny, it is not witty, it is not amusing.
Do these americans have any idea of the horrors the soviet regimes??? That is not anything to joke about. Solely the Stalin massacred many more people than Hitler. Why not use nazi style images? The message is equally offensive with this one than it is with throwing a nazi swastika in there.
And then we see a picture of Obama portrayed in this manner, with the text "hope" in the picture. Do they understand how offensive and disrespectful that is. It is exactly the same thing as it is to add Hitler moustache on Obama. The regime of dictatorship is just different.
I don't see a problem with people lifting tropes from Soviet period work, but it seems a shame that they've lost track of what was in their own backyard.
America had a very rich tradition of bold and striking "propaganda" posters of its own, particularly those created by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. The Library of Congress has an excellent archive, which can be browsed here - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
I look forward to its rediscovery by the current generation of graphic designers with a point to make.
Because they are aesthetic, ironic and carry a lot of emotion to them.
Plus, most people that find offense with this these days are just scape goating on the past. When the communists took over, they blamed the aristocracy for all the wrong doings, then the communists fell and now the new Russians blame communism for all their problems, and what do they blame? Art.
great..it's the twenty first century and we are still doing 19th century "don't spit in the street" health messages..