There’s an incredible thing in the blogosphere today – we are willing to believe that our Homeland Security folk (or even the Maryland Transportation Administration) would put a Watch, Ride, and Report poster on the Maryland Trains. I believe that people are stupid, but not stupid, ya know? Agencies under Geo. Bush using Soviet looking posters? I can't see it happening.My penchant for accuracy go the best of me... and my declaration, at 2:06 pm is that it's public art as social intervention.
The site that the photo is on is of
The use of the word "Marshals" suggests Air Marshals, so it would seem to make sense on quick glance, but I think not.
Resources:
The Billboard Liberation Front's discussion of "Questions for Redressing the Imposition on Public Space"
Looks like the Propaganda Remix Project
http://www.obeygiant.com/main.php OBEY -= Manufacturing Quality Dissent since Engineering Propaganda
or The Praxis Group, "a Minneapolis-based unit which stages site-specific, unsanctioned and unsolicited projects within the confines of public spaces which are privately owned."
Other satire and subvertizing posters like this can be found at About.com here
And a nifty film of made by robbie conal “guerilla etiquette and postering guide” is at http://www.robbieconal.com/guerrilla.html (needs quicktime) The rest of the website's cool too.
Clearly, this site is doing wheatpaste, not getting posters inside "official" displays...
My opinion, and I'm sticking with it until someone proves me wrong.
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Now some other guy on another blog is claiming to have phoned the Transit people and talked to someone who thinks it's real...
hmmm... I'm no longer comfortable going by what some other guy says...
Since I was no longer willing to rely on what anonymous people said about what other anonymous people said, I talked on the phone to an MTA police officer who say there's no such entity as the MARC Marshals, or MARC anything. She checked her directory, as well as everyone else in the office "Hey, anybody ever year of the MARC Marshals?"
The very helpful police officer then game me the name of a man to call for information. I'll keep you posted.
Of course, I could just be another anonymous person citing an anonymous police officer...
oh wait, I'm not anonymous. My actual real identity is posted here. Plus, that's what the Bush Administration does and I don't do anything they do.
And I've got to get rid of this head.
You really do need your head (and I need your head)!!!
If some nasty person comes to lop it off, they'll have to go through me first!
thanks... it was the smiling Cindy-face that had been appearing whenever I posted anything anywhere in blogosphere. It was haunting me, and didn't go with my crankyness. But I bet you got that.
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