SPAMCONSUMER

Civil Disobedience – Carhartt Illustrations

May 9th, 2009

Created Juni 2004:
The abart of the century
SPAMCONSUMER is the art of propaganda.
The plague of this century.
The commongrave of the civilisation.
The protagonist of commercial nexus.
The surface for anchor points.
for RUGGED Magazine – ©Carhartt Europe //Work in Progress

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The permanent surveillance generates an uninterrupted reality scan.
All of this media footage is being reflected back to the societie’s eyes and ears.
The monitored consumers became the controlled addicts of this circular flow of entertainment.
A metapher for loosing our souls and disoriented victims of the global crisis.
As we know them today: Zombies - the living Dead – the abart of the century.
It was a treatment for Carhartt’s RUGGED Magazine. (Check their website…)

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Civil Disobedience – The unusual suspects
»distrust any enterprise that
requires new clothes. «
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817 – 1862)

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TV-Transformers – Who controls whom?

May 6th, 2009

Created April 2006:
Tactical TV Transformers VS. SPAMconsumer
v2.0 (vertical surfaces)[media mogul murdoch & media czar berlusconi]
The left robot required 13 houres of hard work – the right one 15 houres.
It was all constructed, texturized and shaded in photoshop!
for RUGGED Magazine – ©Carhartt Europe //Work in Progress

Yestertimes the governing portion used to conduct the newspapers and media relatives.
Now the media monopolists pilot their string puppets.
I wrote a comprehensive recapitulation about media manipulation.
My analysis in a nutshell.
It was a treatment for Carhartt’s RUGGED Magazine. (Check their website…)

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Our world is constantly becoming a smaller place.
Broadcasting stations brings us news from every part of the globe directly into our homes.
The network of the media corporations has become ever so complex.

Media tycoons, like Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, embody the global power of the media and the danger of it manipulating politics and public alike.
The outcome of elections can be manipulated by swaying opinions and wars abroad seem to have become the instruments of political campaigning at home.
Even terrorists make use of the modern tools of propaganda.
All that remains to audiences is to participate as a silent zombie in front of the idiot box.

What is propaganda? Are satellite-TV and Internet the last step to total control?
Or is all of this nothing more than harmless entertainment?

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