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Published: 2005-11-11 00:17:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 1552; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 44
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Television - Drawing attention away from the people in charge since 1950.A: Did you hear what happened on Survivor?
B: We've been in Iraq for almost three years now.
A: Joe Bob got voted off the island.
B: And we still haven't found Osama Bin Laden.
A: And American Idol! did you see that?
B: He's not even in Iraq.
A: Oh, God! Lost have you seen Lost?
B: Forget it.
Special thanks to Jan Van Eyck.
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I really don't think it is the TV's fault. It's just a box after all. People want to stay ignorant, they are the ones who want to be deceived. The truth can be found everywhere and unless you look for it, you'll let yourself be easily fooled by that stupid box. Anyway, good job.
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Gyah, so many space-age, plastic-fantastic, empty, smiling faces. *-*
The machine has definitely gotten smarter (er, stupider?) over the last half-decade, opting to fool everyone with outright sex and top-notch airbrushing.
Let's not forget: ask too many "dangerous questions" and the TV will become angry, and start interrupting your precious programming with Terror Alerts (just enough to make you obey, like a dog being punished).
My only real complaint is you probably didn't draw the "suits" big enough in comparison with the masses below them. If anything, they should have been TOWERING over the entire cityscape (so high up their faces become shrouded in darkness, the way they prefer things to be). ^~
Not sure why the Arnolfini couple is there... their calm early-Renaissance expressions feel like a reprieve from everything else on the page, you know...
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Wow thanks...
The TV has gotten really angry lately. I saw Fox News the other day at work and they are really trying to hammer the idea that whatever Bush is doing is the Right Thing, even though it looks like maybe six people in the US think he's not a complete idiot at this point. Apparently it isn't working as well anymore.
I guess the suits are where they are because I wanted the TV to be upward from everything else, like it's the center of attention. As for Mr and Mrs Arnolfini, I just like to throw in the occasional red herring. Just a little detail to see if anyone picks up on it. So far, I think you are the only person who has really noticed them.
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Wow. Fox News will accuse Mother Teresa of pedophilia if that meant another dollar in the bank.
(It's scary, I don't think American history has ever witnessed a president this dismal. And what's sad is he'll probably be saved from impeachment at the last minute by some unrelated terrorist act which he did nothing to prevent. Not like he'd want to; tragedy brings opportunity. And television will make certain of it.)
It really is the greatest and most terrible invention.
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Thank you. Thanks also for the +fav.
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You're welcome, it was a fav well earned!
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Thanks for the +fav. Glad you like it.
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drops to my knees
look listen kneel pray
i am always amazed about the consistant feelign all the images have, each one fits in the collage. even the sizes match.
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Thank you, I have to admit though, that I cheat quite a bit by resizing/flipping/rotating things in the GIMP.
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of course, tis expected, but youdo a good job, even though once i think i noticed you mirror a car, but then again it made it look like a english guy was driving it.
havent tried the gimp, i was using jasc/correl as a basic opener upper and what nots, but i tried to find it again and they have three version out, all that werent the ones i got used to,
bastards.
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Well, the car was against all those middle-english looking ruins, so yeah...
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you knew of what one i spoke of,
that rocks
doesnt matter either way, still looks good
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Drawing attention -away- from those in charge? Are you crazy? Don't you talk to conservative Christians? It's the Jew-ran socialist gay liberal media elite that run this country. The President is helpless against their powers.
Pick up any right wing book at random and you will find out that "Funny Girl" Barbara Striesand is more dangerous you than any terrorist or nuclear rogue nation.
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Right, and by pointing to the Jew ran, etc, as you put it everytime something happens they don't want you to see, they can accomplish most anything.
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The other day, a Pentagon spokesman, oddly not in a uniform, speaking of disappointment over the war, said that Americans didn't get nothing but "bad images" from Iraq. "You see nothing but car bombs on every channel," he said. Jon Stewart commented, "it's true. You never hear of the cars the don't explode."
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