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Careless Talk Costs Lives (asbojesus)
August 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
Slogans are enduring, hey?
From @asbojesus blog.
Doe Fret and Keep Gooin
August 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
Thanks to whoever tagged me in this photo, think it was Craig! And if you want the t-shirt…
Gordon Brown’s Record
March 28, 2010 3 Comments
I think it was inevitable after all the posters about David Cameron, that any poster produced in support of Gordon Brown was going to be subverted. This is going to be a really interesting election, as people (if they wish), will have so much more access to information, and every piece of party propaganda produced is likely to be subverted in many different ways, at very high speed… and this is just something that each political party is not going to be able to control. Cartoonists have always been able to give a a subversive message with regards to party politics, but this time the voices will be louder as all get involved! Thanks to Jas for bringing my attention to this via Twitter, and check out his recent post on the need for Government to provide funding for further development in Computer Science.
Keep Calm and Carry Yarn
January 29, 2010 1 Comment
We clearly have David Simpkin on the look out for images of subversion now (nothing new there then), so here’s another gem he’s found from “The Daily What“
Mock the Week: Mocks David Cameron Poster
January 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
If you get a chance (probably available in the UK til Wednesday), check out Mock the Week for last week – excellent humour re: David Cameron’s new poster campaign – they got about 6 minutes of mileage out of it. The real poster is visible on 760 billboards across the UK… this was Dara’s interpretation of what the poster should have said… Very scathing that it’s all personality, no policies… hmmm, a certain Conservative MP made the same error post-war (Winston Churchill’s 1945 campaign was all about personality, Labour was all about policy!)
David Cameron: Airbrushed
January 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
David Cameron’s airbrushed poster campaign has backfired – setting off an internet craze of hilarious spoof versions.
On the mydavidcameron.com site jokers can adapt the “we can’t go on like this” adverts to poke fun at the 15ft-high picture of the Tory leader.
One shows his smoothed-over face with the words: “We can’t go on like this. I’ll cut my taxes, but not yours.”
Another replaces the picture with Harry Enfield’s “Tim Nice But Dim” saying: “My chums from school and I are going to absolutely, thoroughly, bloody-well sort the country out.” The airbrushed Mr Cameron is also portrayed as saying: “I love the BBC so much, I want to cut it up into little pieces and give it to all my friends.”
The spoof posters website, unfunded and not linked to a political party, was set up by designer Clifford Singer, who said. “We’ve been inundated.”
The site had 35,000 visits in the first week and received 200 poster ideas.
Meanwhile, a focus group report on the campaign poster said: “The general message was that it had backfired as it fed into the concerns people have about David Cameron and the Tories – that something doesn’t quite add up.”
The airbrushing was seen as “sly, cunning and slick” and Cameron as a “narcissist”. A Labour source said: “It has massively backfired. The outbreak of online mock-ups confirms this.”
Read full story and see my earlier entry.
[So Labour is not going to have similar problems with any of their posters, right?]
Keep Calm and Carry On Update
September 27, 2009 1 Comment
So, what’s been going on in the world of Keep Calm and Carry On, whilst we’ve been enjoying the halcyon days of British summer (and with all those tales of the recession coming to an end, has the popularity of the slogan taken a downturn?)
- Troops On Tour order the t-shirts
- A casting call for a production entitled “Keep Calm and Carry On” (deadline 28th September)
- Keep Calm and Sew Stuff (machine design) (made same mistake as me!)
- Vera Lynn quotes the poster, as her album hits No.1, decades after she recorded it.
- Card-carrying University of Illinois President B. Joseph White
- Motivational Slogans/World-War-II, hand-in-hand
- Lord Paul Myners (City Minister)
- In diamante!
- Necklaces
- Wayne Rooney listening to the Stereophonics “Keep Calm and Carry On” album (loves it, apparently)
- A reader comments that this converted church is like Barter Books…
- Stereophonics : Live (Listen to a track from their album)
- Keep Calm and Carry On Collecting (Nazi Relics)
- Keep Calm and Smell the Roses
- Keep Calm and Carry On Craze
- San Franciscans love it?
- Still saving from ‘freak out’ in the recession, but apparently also available as a pepper spray!
- Critique of the “police poster” series.
- Clutch Bag
- For Reading F.C.
- Derren Brown “remain calm”, made others think of KCCO!
- Effortless Anthropologie remembers it as a 2007 design issue…
- 1940s weekend, Norfolk
- Submitted to the “Snowclone” database (What’s a snowclone?)
- Remember the slogan when reading health articles!
- Advising expats from the US, living in the UK
- Graffitied onto a train
- An insult to those with depression
- ‘Making art and ignoring the dishes‘ (what a great slogan in its own right!)
Super Fun Days Out: Love Life… Live It!
July 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
Recently, I have been appointed as a partner, and the New Media Strategist for Super Fun Days Out, covering the blog (coming shortly), Twitter, and Bookmarking, starting with Delicious.
Super Fun Days Out is a free online adrenaline-directory, covering more than 2,000 UK companies who provide adventure sports. Rather than taking commission, SFDO (#sfdo) provides links directly to the sports providers, thus making it more affordable for those who want to participate in adventure sports, and giving the UK economy a boost as we continue to “Keep Calm and Carry On”, for which we have substituted our company slogan: “Love Life… Live It”!
Adventure Sports Include:4×4 driving; abseiling; airsoft; archery; assault course; banana rides; blading; body boarding; buggies; bungee jumping; bush craft; canoeing; canyoning; caving; clay pigeon shooting; coasteering; cycling; dinghy; dragon boating; duckies; fishing; flying; golf; hang gliding; helicopter; hill climbing; horse riding; hot air balloon; hovercrafting; ice skating; jcb driving; jet ski; karting; kayaking; kite surfing; land yachting; laser clay pigeon shooting; laser combat; laser tag; military driving; minimoto; mircolight; motocross; mountain biking; mountain boarding; outdoor pursuits; paddlesurfing; paintball; parachute; paragliding; paramotoring; performance car driving; powerboating; quad biking; raft building; rafting;rally driving; ringos; river bugs; rock climbing; rowing; sailing; scuba diving; segway racing; shark diving; shooting; skiing; skim boarding; skirmish; skydiving; skydiving freefall simulator; sleddog; sledging; snorkelling; snow; snowboarding; sphereing; surfing; wakeboarding; wakeskating; water sports; waterskiing; waveski; white water rafting; windsurfing; yachting; zip wire; zorbing
- Follow Super Fun Days Out on Twitter.
- Watch as we start to build links on Delicious
- Look out for the blog which will be linked [here], when you’ll find out more about our team, and the sports we love to get involved in!
- Join our Facebook group!
- Read the Daily Echo article.
Image generated by Keep-Calm-O-Matic.
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