frameacloud, hope you don't mind, but I've sorta stolen one of your ideas. Remeber how you used to have a sketchbook page up on VCL? The one featuring, among other things, the picture of your muse, yourself, an arrow labeled "Buff, eh?" to the picture of yourself, many assorted sketches, and a whole bunch of arrows pointing to "OOH! AHH! THE ONLY BLANK SPACE ON THE PAGE!" Remember that?Well, I sorta stole the arrow gag. It's for a good cause, though! It's for the advancement of surrealism!
There will soon be a brightly colored sign adhered to a pillar in House Nine's no-purpose multipurpose room (a very large room containing one couch and one television... no, larger room than that, think a bit larger... like, most of the first floor of the building... yeah, that's it... and it's completely empty) with a whole bunch of arrows pointing to a starburst with very small text. Upon closer inspection, one can determine that in Comic Sans 5.5, the text reads "made you look!"
Whatever makes y'all think my sanity has been decreasing lately?
Any chance you could send me some of these signs, just because I'm too lazy to make them myself? :)
Actually, I didn't save the BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA sign because it took me all of ten secons to make, but I can easily make it again. I'll send 'em both off.
Yay!
The files have been sent. Look for a message from kistaro at gmail dot com, with the subject line "Bizarre and Surreal Signage!" in case it accidentally gets sorted into your spam bucket.
Just don't be surprised if suddenly people start stealing the idea now... it could turn up in signs of similar nature, grafitti, and eventually in advertising.
Such are memes.
It's interesting to unintentionally create a meme. My mom says there have been a few times where she designed unique clothes for herself, wore them in the city, then a couple months later they've suddenly become fashionable everywhere.
In this case, I'm actually trying to grow a meme of surrealism. I don't want people taking the normal world for granted, so I do what I can to shake it up. I'm hoping to start seeing bizarre signs around campus that I didn't personally leave...