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Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?
We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, advertisement, advertising, alternative & punk, big business, campaign, common, conformity, consumerism, diy, materialism, politics, vandal, vandalism.
Tags: advertising, aesthetic, agenda, art collective, billboard, brazil, capitalism, consumerism, corporate influence, corporate interests, corporations, delicatessen, diy, do it yourself, emilythestrange, jean-pierre jeunet, marc caro, materialism, movement, nate the great and the lost list, oprah, politics, punk, self help, self-esteem, selling out, strange, terry gilliam, the church of just stop shopping, the school of practical philosophy, vandalism
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"You Can Pry My Guns From My Cold, Dead Hands . . ."
“. . . but that’ll be hard, because they’re attached,” deadpans Sarah Haskins. While Haskins not actually the same person as Olympic triathelete Sarah Haskins, she is nonetheless a superhero for our age. Haskin’s show Target Women on Current TV is an answer to ObviousMan. Here’s a lady who can dissect our news media’s obsession [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2009 under Comedy, advertisement, advertising, comic, commercial, consumer whore, consumerism, humor, weight loss, woman, women.
Tags: comedian, Comedy, commentary, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, current tv, femininity, feminism, glade, guns, laundry detergent, Media, michlle obama, obviousman, orgasm, sarah haskins, second city, superhero, target women, Tina Fey, triathlete, triceps
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"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor
There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2008 under ad, ads, advertisement, big business, campaign, commerce, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, consumerism, culture, dinosaur comics, don hertzfeld, get your war on, humor, materialism, offbeat, product, rejection, toothpaste for dinner, whore.
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