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Nun tries her hand at agitprop.
May. 31st, 2018 05:13 pmBut first: the Wendling locked himself out of my apartment yesterday, but he had everything he needed except his keys, i.e. his wallet, phone, and books. I guess that's progress. I had to drive across town to pick him up from work, but hey, I get to talk to him more, and replace the butter he eats too quickly.
But on to propaganda! I've had printed a thousand 2" x 3" stickers of this:
You may have lots to do with as you wish; send me a DM with a mailing address or, in Seattle, delivery requests.
No, I really don't think we should be deporting American citizens*, but you know what? Rupert Murdoch is the person who is besides Vladimir Putin most responsible for the Orange Horror and his minions. I think it's even a reasonable conjecture that Murdoch was a necessary precondition for Putin, and the latter knew it.
I'm more than a little surprised and appalled at how many people, especially younger people, don't know who Rupert Murdoch is. Maybe the stickers will encourage younger people to find out who brainwashed their grandparents.
So why stickers? Well, I've done signs, but finding a good place to hang them without getting caught is tricky and involves a whole lot of driving.
Why make them look like highway signs, complete with Interstate typeface and round-cornered border? Americans are used to paying attention to highway signs. They carry an air of authority, but they're not unfriendly. They say, "Do this. You'll be better off," and people with any sense and no intoxicants in their system believe them.
And it occurs to me that the Interstate typeface** is unusual among typefaces popular in the US by having been developed in the US, not Europe. It's a candidate for the American typeface. It hails from a time when Americans would actually work together for the common good - or at least what they perceived to be the common good at the time. Yes, the Interstate system has encouraged car dependency and urban planning Chernobyls across the land, but would you really want the Interstate system completely dismantled right now? No.
So I've made cheeky little highway signs to be deployed as widely and visibly as possible. I'm already coming up with other designs.
ETA: The printer shrank the image a little so there'd be enough white space around the black border than imprecision in cutting wouldn't mess them up. Live and learn.
*One guy at the Mercury to whom I offered stickers said that deportation is too kind. I wouldn't dream of arguing against that.
**Officially, National Highway Transportation Safety Administration Gothic in its original analog version. There's a digital version called Interstate available commercially.
But on to propaganda! I've had printed a thousand 2" x 3" stickers of this:
You may have lots to do with as you wish; send me a DM with a mailing address or, in Seattle, delivery requests.
No, I really don't think we should be deporting American citizens*, but you know what? Rupert Murdoch is the person who is besides Vladimir Putin most responsible for the Orange Horror and his minions. I think it's even a reasonable conjecture that Murdoch was a necessary precondition for Putin, and the latter knew it.
I'm more than a little surprised and appalled at how many people, especially younger people, don't know who Rupert Murdoch is. Maybe the stickers will encourage younger people to find out who brainwashed their grandparents.
So why stickers? Well, I've done signs, but finding a good place to hang them without getting caught is tricky and involves a whole lot of driving.
Why make them look like highway signs, complete with Interstate typeface and round-cornered border? Americans are used to paying attention to highway signs. They carry an air of authority, but they're not unfriendly. They say, "Do this. You'll be better off," and people with any sense and no intoxicants in their system believe them.
And it occurs to me that the Interstate typeface** is unusual among typefaces popular in the US by having been developed in the US, not Europe. It's a candidate for the American typeface. It hails from a time when Americans would actually work together for the common good - or at least what they perceived to be the common good at the time. Yes, the Interstate system has encouraged car dependency and urban planning Chernobyls across the land, but would you really want the Interstate system completely dismantled right now? No.
So I've made cheeky little highway signs to be deployed as widely and visibly as possible. I'm already coming up with other designs.
ETA: The printer shrank the image a little so there'd be enough white space around the black border than imprecision in cutting wouldn't mess them up. Live and learn.
*One guy at the Mercury to whom I offered stickers said that deportation is too kind. I wouldn't dream of arguing against that.
**Officially, National Highway Transportation Safety Administration Gothic in its original analog version. There's a digital version called Interstate available commercially.
