I was chatting with a neighbor this morning about the used birth control device some other neighbor tossed into my back yard. She remarked “and just when things were starting to look up…”
“They are!” I said. ” The gross nail salon next door is gone!”
“I saw! They should open a super-rad breakfast place. Who doesn’t like breakfast?”
“Terrorists,” I replied. “That’s who.”
This reminded her of a blog post she read where “some designer” critiqued the logos of terror organizations.
“This is no fair,” I said, upon realizing communist groups were included in the mix, “commies have the best propaganda art and they would totally beat any Islamic terror group in the design category.”
Reading a bit further, I realized that a good number of these organizations aren’t what I would term “terrorist.” Fatah, Hamas, and especially Hezbollah, for example. White racist organizations are repugnant, sure, but terrorist? Note the explicit disclaimer made for the Kosovo Liberation Army. Shameless.
I think so-called terrorist groups’ logos are similar to nations’ flags and coats of arms. That is, they are generally very similar (with notable exceptions such as the flag of Nepal)
In my opinion, those “terrorist” logos (like Hizballah’s and the other Lebanese and Palestian one-gun logos) are much more exciting than the dreary AIPAC or OPEC logos.
I think so-called terrorist groups’ logos share similarities just like nations’ flags and coats of arms. That is, they are generally very similar (with notable exceptions such as the flag of Nepal).
In my opinion, those “terrorist” logos (like Hizballah’s and the other Lebanese and Palestian one-gun logos) are much stronger and more exciting (=better propaganda) than the dreary AIPAC or OPEC logos. I actually printed my own Hizballah logo shirt and everyone thought it was cool, even if they disagreed politically with it (I wouldn’t dare wear it today, I would probably go to jail).
Just like blaxploitation and communist fashion (such as Che), and Chinese/Japanese kanji tattoos became fashionable, other cultures’ design/artistic standards are always interesting to us.
I noticed a good many years ago that Israeli, hebrew-language news had dropped the abstract termination, the “ism” – they simply talk about “hamilhama neged haterror” – “the war against terror”. This usage has spread to the USA and UK, gradually. This term is psychologically preferable to “terrorism”, since a war against an emotion cannot be won.