You’ve heard the original countless times, but here’s the official parody of “Empire State of Mind” by comedian Billy Eichner, featuring the wonderfully strange Rachel Dratch as Alicia Keys for a more local and Judaistic version: “Forest Hills State of Mind.”
When it comes to parodies, the New York Times is the paper of record for artist to incorporate into their work. Artist Steve Ellis fired off this freshly drawn image with a note: “What a historic and beautiful day for our country. Ahh, and farewell to our former president Bush. This drawing is a “no thanks” for the memories entitled The New Times.”
Alaska continues its march towards modernity and this Sunday will mark the official opening of a new Target store in Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla—she refuses to live at the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau with all those radical Obama-supporting neighbors. The discount retailer—a favorite of Eastern elites too—has an excellent opportunity to utilize the bull’s eye to their advantage and lock in on the local populations who will inherently appreciate the hunter-centric logo, even when they finally realize it’s not a gun store. ANIMAL whipped up a few ads that might have a better chance of appealing directly to the small town militia residents. Jump for the rest.
If you watched the vice presidential debate last night, you were probably shocked—along with 69 million other Americans—at how well Sarah Palin could spit out premeditated barbs, rehearsed talking points, and what can best be described as “glittering generalities.” Her spritely smile coupled with the lowest expectations ever held for a vice presidential candidate has given Conservatives a sigh of relief after those disastrous fireside chats with Katie Couric, again giving John McCain the chance to die another day. Plus, she got an opportunity to bitch to Fox News about how elitist the mainstream media is, especially when it comes to the annoying CBS anchor and her softball questions that come standard on citizenship tests.
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Forget about Trig being her grandchild, that earmarked bridge to nowhere, putting the jet on eBay, Troopergate, the teleprompter lie, using Yahoo emails for state business or any of the other myriad of lies that show how dangerous a pick Sarah Palin is. Here’s the real reason you shouldn’t vote for McCain and his Alaskan prophetess: she killed Bullwinkle. |DonStuff|
“[I]magine this: a jaunty young John, in his pilot uniform, sitting comfortably and chatting with his Vietnamese captors. Two gorgeous gals serve his every wish. He is smoking a cigar and drinking a martini. In the next room other POWs are being intensively interrogated. Ha ha, Republicans?” |Wonkette|
The spinoffs of the now infamous ‘New Yorker’ cover that spawned a huge news cycle of outrage and controversy for depicting the Obamas as extremist terrorist caricatures, has almost topped that of Shepard Fairey’s HOPE poster for Obama despite only being a few days old now. Cartoonists from all sides of the political universe are taking shots at the cover and redrawing it for their own heavy handed satirical purposes. The parodies are numerous and can all be viewed on artist Daryl Cagle’s blog or you can jump for a cartoon collection of our favorites. |E&P|
In a piss poor attempt to show how neutral and free thinking they are, the graffiti soaked kids over at Bombin’ Magazine tried their hand at parodying Shepard Fairey’s now iconic ‘HOPE’ campaign poster for Obama with disastrous results. Their posters feature a McCain-looking guy with the words “Independent” and “Experience not Propaganda” crammed into the bottom. Considering that the old man has already been used by News Corpse in basically the same capacity, not to mention a long line of other parodies—ours included—this thing falls flat as the as image itself. Plus their official, grammatically incorrect statement about how this poster was designed to help people “study the candidate objectively” is pure bullshit, as they conclude with the real reason for creating it: “Oh yeah, and consider these posters one giant middle finger raised to Shephard Fairey. How does it feel to have your worked jacked? Can you see me now?”
Not only does OBEY enhancing graphic designer Baxter Orr parody the artwork of Shepard Fairey, but like the controversial artist, he’s also decided to help prop up his presidential candidate, in this case, old man McCain. Orr licensed his Obama-DOPE design to the ring wing’s seller of swag AuthenticGOP.com. Basically he took the original image and slightly altered it to make way for this t-shirt design that now features the Democratic presidential candidate, but with the words NOPE plastered across the front. Unfortunately, the imagery doesn’t do the same justice as the cocaine nose encrusted one, and in all likelihood won’t help the Republican candidate—only a terrorist attack can do that at this point. Plus, regardless of the message, if someone sports a portrait of Obama on their chest, are they not just promoting his brand anyway? Side by side comparisons of the two images after the jump.
Louie Vuitton is not happy about this t-shirt design from Danish artist Nadia Plesner, regardless if its for charity or not. Counterfeit Chic reports:
The image casts a Sudanese child from the troubled Darfur region in the role of Paris Hilton, complete with small pink-clad dog and designer handbag, in order to criticize the media’s excessive coverage of attention-seeking celebutantes rather than genocidal conflict. In Nadia’s words, “Since doing nothing but wearing designerbags and small ugly dogs appearantly is enough to get you on a magasine cover, maybe it is worth a try for people who actually deserves and needs attention.”
She’s been sent a fairly cheerful cease and desist letter which you can download here (PDF), but regardless of the ginger tone, the fashion house requested she stop selling the tees ASAP. Counterfeit Chic does a great job breaking down the legalese.
|Counterfeit Chic via Murketing|
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