Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Bloomer & Barthes




According to the site: Elvis Presley posing with the wild turkey he just shot.

From the folks who brought you Jesus-On-Toast (or, at least, applying the same elements of cognitive theory) there is now an Instagram page dedicated to the cryptic forms that our minds may discern in the average Cheeto cheese puff.

In other news, a prime example of condensed code was employed to illustrate a recent article about NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden over at BoingBoing.net. The image (below) merges the iconic red-white-and-blue colored Barack Obama "HOPE" campaign image with the face of a man who has come to represent a direct opposition to the president's policies on widespread surveillance of the populace. In this way the designer has attempted to transfer the "HOPE" quality from President Obama (who disappointed many of his supporters with his failure to maintain a transparent White House) onto Mr. Snowden, whose actions--while divisive--are seen by some as heroic and instrumental in paving the way forward to more open discussion and criticism of surveillance practices.


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