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The Alt-Right has a new plan to take over the culture … by appropriating the “corporate symbols of the left” and — get this! — subverting them. And then, like, pasting them on buildings and stuff. Because no one has ever thought of THAT before!
In a recent blog post, the pickup-artist-turned-white-supremacist-Trump-superfan “Heartiste” proudly posts a photo of one such subversion: street posters that have transformed the Apple logo, “an iconic image of globohomo shitlibbery,” into “a pro-Trumpening war banner” by turning the standard bite from the apple into a Trump silhouette.
Aw, it’s cute — they think they’re Banksy!
Heartiste then posts his own contribution to the “existential war for the soul of Western Man.”
If you’ve ever wondered if it was possible to screw up in Photoshop if all you’re doing is posting words onto a plain white background, it turns out the answer is “yes.”
Here’s a slightly more clever use of the Adidas brand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNua1lFDuDI
but… who is “Bill Stickers”? And why is he being PERSECUTED???
Poor Bill Stickers. Another victim of the evil feminist court system.
I haven’t been able to see or hear “Adidas” without getting this stuck in my head since I was 14.
Graphic designer: What you want?
Reactionary: Well, all the rest of my ideas are decades outta date…
Graphic designer: Say no more. I got you, fam
Imagine if these people had any idea what they’re doing
That adidas spoof — gah. Not the same font, and the kerning is awful.
@Axecaliber
That made me realize that he didn’t even use the “New” (since 1998) Adidas logo.
It’s a universal truth: nazis, racists and other hateful turds simply cannot grasp the basics of either art or humor. And every time they attempt the two, separately or together, the results are downright cringe-worthy.
@JoeB
Noice 🙂
To be fair, that new logo has been ass since 1998. But yeah, they probably image searched ‘adidas logo’ and picked one
Dude, just put the Adidas logo in the swastika’s place on the Nazi flag. It’s a German company. God, these people have no design sense.
If I had to “fix” an Apple ad, I’d do the totally original thing and add an “ly” to “Think Different”. Adverbs are important to me! 😛
From Heartiste’s post:
I dunno, but poor Heartiste can’t decide whether to be Ezra Pound or John Keats (“Truth and Beauty” indeed). You can’t be both at once, you know.
Even this is a better photoshop:
Breaking news!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrElOC79xFg&sns=em
Supporters rally as video surfaces of “Bill Stickers” arrest!!!
Story at 11:00
epitome skrev:
Well, he’s probably not going to decide to split the difference and be Ezra Jack Keats. (Ironically, as a Loomis, I am distantly related to be Ezra Pound and Samuel Colt, which probably makes the leftward drift of my life ironic in some way.)
Is the pledge drive capybara on hiatus? S/he was so cute. I thought one in running shoes would be appropriate.
adidas: All Day I Dream About Suing…James Wiedmann.
(Just doing my bit to help Adidas’s legal team out. Haha.)
@ScarlettAthena
I could not find one wearing shoes, but I did find a fist-bump capybara and that was too awesome not to share.
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5e/df/b1/5edfb1143a579b63a0dc878734beceee.jpg
This feels like a rip off of an especially dumb Korn song.
https://youtu.be/IWgltXN_S-4
Adidas: All Day I Dream About Skyrim
ETA: Yes there are mods that add sneakers to the game.
@Kupo
Many thanks! My day now feels complete with that cute capybara!
tells me all I need to know about the original author. He must be so pissed about the tendency of some of the new tech bajillionaires to embrace social justice issues (at least until they become addicted to the money) e.g. Google’s “Don’t be Evil” (before they changed it to “Don’t be Google”)
@kupo – Fist-bump capybara, yay! I’ve been too busy this week to stick around much, but I enjoyed the capybaras!
@Austin Loomis – :). Also, that’s kind of cool! My dad’s from New England too, but no famous relatives that I know of.
Ah, Ezra Pound. I wrote about some of the guy’s work for my MA project. On one hand Pound did a lot to help other artists – helping writers get published, editing for free, providing his sculptor friend with material he couldn’t have afforded, etc. On the other hand, his writings (letters, poetry, non-fiction) from the 1930s-40s are full of racist and fascist views. (This doesn’t excuse him being treated so badly by the US justice system when he came back from Italy, but it makes him much less credible as a cultural critic, in my opinion.)
Unanswerable question of the day: if Pound alive today, would he support Trump? 🙁
@epitome of incomprehensibility :
“Thinkly Different”? Well, it follows its own advice, at least!
😛
Presenting proof about Nazis and such being incapable of doing good art.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Also more about Nazi art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_the_Third_Reich
Oh hey, about that last link, fun tidbit for y’all: