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Propaganda Photos
Some of you may remember Obey Fojar from back in the day, my rather blatant knock-off of the propaganda stylings of Obey Giant. That site isn’t even online anymore, and although I have it archived, I’m not going to restore it because, wow, that’s some bad stuff. Take photo, run posterize photoshop filter, convert colors to black and red, and post as original artwork! *shudder*
Still, the source photos are good for a laugh.
While I was going through my photo archives to upload old photos to Flickr, I stumbled across the directory with these photos.
We took these in the tek room for the express purpose of converting into propaganda images. They were taken with the strong backlight provided by a halogen torch light behind the subject.
The pose was much more important than the actual subject or props used. Since we were in the tek room, we mostly had computer equipment around.
The idea was that we would photoshop the various computer equipment out with more standard communist props like scythes or bushels of wheat.
In this case, a t-square stood in for a sledgehammer. In fact, I later submitted that one to Print Magazine for the student cover design competition, and placed for my school.
The skull seems obvious, but I have no excuse for the beard, the pose, or the sound card.
Zoe is Two Years Old
Dear Zoe,
You are two years old, and it is absolutely crazy how much you have changed and grown lately. You’ve recently started going to Co-Op daycare, started jumping and doing somersaults, become fascinated with reading and writing, and singing and talking. You are always busy and high energy, and everyone thinks you’re adorable.
A Few Things About Zoe
I just realized I haven’t been posting about Zoe much lately. I’ll try to make up for that with a few photo posts, but let me kick-start the process by sharing a few things:
Good Times in San Francisco
I am eating well, learning a lot, and taking hundreds of photos. I’ll write up a review of An Event Apart on Wednesday and post more photos, but I had to share this one today. In the meantime, I’ve been posting on twitter.








