Ummh

[vfb]

Saving this for when it gets swapped out by a new one ...



Can anyone identify the fonts used in the original ads, and know if/where they are available for download?

[Renojustin]

The bog beast in vfb's signature looks devastated that his mate is cheating on him with Ron Jeremy.

[lch]

vfb said:
Can anyone identify the fonts used in the original ads, and know if/where they are available for download?

I used the fabulous Identifont site on the ATF font and here are the results that it came up with (left column):
Identifont results for ATF ad

P.S.: Compacta Bold looks pretty much like it.

[vfb]

Cool! I did not know about the fabulous Identifont. Yet another bookmark for me, thanks lch.

[ghostwes]

Anyone studying postmodernist stuff really needs to study the Sokal Affair, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

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Omnirizon said:
here is a video which is considered a classic in Pomo thinking. the Pruitt-Igoe housing represented modernist ideals of progress and order. This video is showing them from the Pomo perspective, they look so sinister. Cold faceless giants. The way they simplify and standardize people into objects. That housing project eventually turned into a slum, no one wanted to live there. People are not the orderable objects that modernity wants us to be. That's the message of Pomo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29fgA5M7VA

I should specifically add that the destruction of Pruitt Igoe was so symbolic for Pomo because it was the destruction of the modern idea that through progress and order we can _design_ away poverty and other ills of society. The best designers, architects, and planners all came together to build that housing project to solve problems of poverty, yet all it did was worsen it. It got so bad the projects had to be destroyed.

Hey I really liked the Pruitt Igoe example. I saw Koyaanisqatsi and the other movies in the trilogy a while ago, but I don't think I read them explicitly in terms of modernism vs postmodernism.

By the way, I just ran across this science fiction story by Cory Doctorow that has themes of postmodernism vs modernism in it. The Carousel of Progress provides an interesting (and hokey) contrast of a positive representation of modernism and futurism. Anyway it's a rather fun and thought provoking story.

http://craphound.com/?p=1823
http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=6&paged=6

[Wokeye]

LOL I saw another ad today. Either that's a bloke with really nice legs, or those hot-chicks-who-like-fantasy-TBS-strategy-games are breeding! YAY!1!1

[sector24]

I don't want to know where the bog beast is in the new ad.

[Amhazair]

Perhaps I wouldn't mind being where you don't want to know where he is.

[Slobby]

The new ad scares me! The lady looks like she's gonna take dom3 away from me!