jennifer crakow

a couple posters, one from the god squad, the other for the upcoming EU Parliamentary elections, both seeking believers and new converts.

Stopped at our local Sainsbury next to the tube this morning. On the way out, this bundle of plastic caught my eye as I passed by the newspaper stand.  Very often the Guardian or The Times (or any other local publication) will bundle media with the paper. Kind of like offerring not one but TWO types of dying media, for the price of a newspaper!

Low and behold, today’s Times, has gone the distance and bundled a copy of George Orwell’s classic, 1984, with every paper.  This has to be somebodys brilliant joke. (Nice going, I’d like to buy you tea or a pint sometime)

Now I’m just waiting for a BBC headline “Man caught on CCTV stealing The Times with 1984″.

In an inexplicably strange concept, German media outlet, Welt Kompakt, right-sizes leaders of the world if only for a quick double-take, followed by a nice laugh.

This whole series is from a full corridor-length wall display at Berlin’s Schonefeld Airport. Joel and I had fun naming the more obscure leaders while wondering how and why these were chosen over others. For instance, where is Sarkozy, Putin, Chavez, etc?

Apart from all the fun were having with these, I was left with the lingering thoughts of how babies and children are depicted throughout art history. More specifically, the Christ baby in all the Madonna and Child portraits in early Christian art / the Byzantine period. I believe this is when the depicitons of children began where they are infant or child size, but with adult faces.  If remember correctly, there are still traces of this found in Renaissance and Mannerist works as well.

Then again, after these images kept nagging at me, I looked at them again. These aren’t adult faces on these kids at all. The only adult traces are from my memory, otherwise they’re just toddlers with distorted expressions emphasizing the absurdity of the situation.

This ad, “oohgle” is posted all over the tube and on sides of buses. It seemed too much of an obvious Google marketing hack of some sort. Like the mathematical problems Google’s posts on billboards for potential job candidates and aspiring geeks.

So, I go to check out “oohgle“. Low and behold Google (and Yahoo!), it’s a UK marketing company, Postercope, riffing ripping of your brand(s)!  First with the obvious Google associations, then on the landing page itself (at least one of two or three), the text  and page title are “Do you ooghle?”.

Clever? Hmm… maybe slightly with the “Out of home” of the “OOH”.  Stupid? Yes, most definitely.

Brixtonites are selling gallons and gallons of Obama Punch!  That’s right the tagline for this super sweet and fruity nectar is “a little taste of paradise”.  Respect.

Thanks, Rachel, for the lovely pic!

Found this among hundreds of other loose photos and papers I’ve rediscovered the past few weeks. I took this photo somewhere in Hollywood around 1986 or ‘87.