Juxtaposing images of atrocities and pop culture icons

Odradek · 2012-05-20 15:25:17

Because for anyone looking to be provocative, politically aware, and daring, there's no better way to do it without actually putting in any effort or conveying any real meaning than juxtaposing images of pop culture icons and atrocities

Feel free to marvel at my daring ingenuity and wit. I'm not shy.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-20 15:32:36

Is this like, some sort of antinatalist thing?

'Cause Star Wars totally makes up for starving children in Africa.

Obā-san · 2012-05-20 15:33:50

No, it's just a schlocky, overused way of being provocative.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-20 15:35:22

...I'm having trouble imagining this was even provocative the first time someone did it.

Anonus · 2012-05-20 15:37:25

I haven't seen this before.

...is it supposed to make you feel like you're ignoring the problems of others and living in an insular world?

Obā-san · 2012-05-20 15:37:39

Well, it's not usually the pictures side by side.

Obā-san · 2012-05-20 15:38:35

Like they're both put together in a piece of art.

Like painting a celebrity into a genocide. Or something.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-20 15:40:48

So like...instead of that holocaust picture, it would be the holocaust picture with the Ghost Busters leaning and standing next to that guy?

That's not provocative, that's just confusing...

Obā-san · 2012-05-20 15:42:38

(*Shrug*)

Justice4243 · 2012-05-20 15:44:03

Wait...I think I found one of Arnold Schwarzenegger put into a scene of a brutal war.

OK, this is definitely eliciting some emotion.

Obā-san · 2012-05-20 15:44:04

It's not something I've seen a lot of, it's mostly the province of the sort of people who Odradek investigates. Internet pseudointelectual types.

^Perfect.

Odradek · 2012-05-20 15:51:04

Here's an example

I think Banksy does it too, sometimes.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-20 16:00:07

This kinda looks like a not very entertaining Photoshop Phriday from Something Awful.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-05-20 16:47:20

what am I looking at here.

Tachyon · 2012-05-20 16:49:50

^^^ Like the statue of a Guantanamo Bay detainee he planted in Disneyland, California?

Tre · 2012-05-20 16:56:34

Odradek · 2012-05-20 17:04:35

^ Now you're gettin' it!

Obā-san · 2012-05-20 17:25:42

PlutoniumFist · 2012-05-20 17:32:40

I couldn't see the teeth on that Chaos Marine's chainsword, so I thought it was just a curling iron.

What? Yes, I'm paying attention.

Obā-san · 2012-05-21 09:01:47

Odradek · 2015-08-20 22:19:49

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/dismaland/

Juxtaposing images of atrocities and pop culture icons

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