Political Candidate Or Bar of Soap? You Decide.
No, the Soviet-style graphic pictured here is not a photoshop product, but rather it is one of some 40 bus shelters in Philadelphia, according to Gar Joseph at the Philadelphia Daily News:
U.S. SEN. Barack Obama's critics have called his presidential campaign a cult of personality. His glassy-eyed supporters are enraptured. The media are docile. Hollywood stars make music videos about him. .
[W]e ask you, does the campaign poster on this page remind you of a totalitarian cult? Wait, don't answer that.
The Soviet-style heroic Obama, the use of a single word "Hope," do make the SEPTA bus shelter posters a bit reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984." Its more direct antecedent is John Carpenter's 1988 paranoid totalitarian fantasy flick, "They Live."
Replace the word "Hope" with "Obey" on that Obama poster and tell us what you think.
The poster was designed by urban street artist/skateboarder Shepard Fairey, who enjoys a successful career as an artist and designer in Los Angeles. . The question is why the Obama campaign endorses artwork that makes him look like Big Brother. . Sergant said that the ad space - on about 40 shelters - was purchased by Obama supporters and not coordinated with his campaign.
And the media will tell you much the same. NBC/MSNBC, CNN, etc. are NOT affiliated with the Obama campaign. They just happen to sound like it 24/7 on all our teevees.
The 1988 Reagan totalitarian flick "They Live" could use an update now that our news media are so transparently Soviet-style political propaganda machines.
The video clip lasts for five minutes, and you'll want to stay for the Obama-esque ending.
Obey Art
[Thanks, Zee!)
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