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Readers, send in stories...please! Consumerist is desperate for non-Nazi related articles.
Readers, send in stories...please! Consumerist is desperate for non-Nazi related articles.
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Wow, I'm sort of choking with all the irony of \"OBEY\", Waffen SS logos and American casualwear. Tho Shep Fairey did it by design, while Wal-Mart did it accidentally.
So is Wal-Mart the Krups of neo-Nazism?
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While I enjoy any opportunity to laugh at Wal-Mart, can we please move along?
That's a pretty well-known artist to 'rip off'
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Hey, you ran that through the Google language tools!
Oh, how the hypocrisy shows through!
\"Wal-mart evil Nazi supporters!! Oh wait, someone we think is cool actually has done this on a tee-shirt?!? Oh, well, um he must have known what he was doing right? Yeah, that's it he was making a statement. But wait we've been accusing Wal-mart of Nazism, so that means we were implying that they know what they were talking about...but no wait they didn't. Oh I'm so confused!\"
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So Wal-mart is taking its cues from Urban Outfitters, not the SS.
But really, the inset star couldn't be more easily photoshopped out. Unless you're joking... my sarcasm detectors aren't up to par this morning.
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I'll have to ask my graphic designer friend but I don't think scanning and photoshopping is a good way to make a hi-rez print-ready image. Also, the right ear bone thing on Walmart's looks more oblate than Shep's.
No, Ben, but you can just as easliy scan and trace with vector lines if so inclined. This would make the artwork easily tweaked and explain why the Wal-Mart version is not identical to the \"obey\" version.
I see what you're saying (quite literally, upon closer examination) but all I'm saying is that it's 99x more likely that Wallyworld was looking to mimic some hip, urban streetwear and used that crappy OBEY shirt as a template. Removing an inset or altering the bones is very, very possible with graphics software, albeit maybe not exclusively Photoshop.
It's a sloppy move for Wal-mart either way.
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I'm confused... Wal Mart won't pull their shirts off the shelves, but it's OK to plug the other guy's shirts? What about hounding the other guy to stop selling them, or are they out of stock permanently? And if so, why do we need a link to the Google cache? And why do we need to know that we can buy it from \"a few other distributors?\"
OK you've been obsessed with the Nazi / Walmart angle, fine, I can respect that. But why aren't you obsessed with the Nazi / Obey angle? Or the Nazi / \"Other Distributors\" angle? Are Nazis OK as long as they aren't promoted by Wal Mart?
Sorry, you had me then you lost me Ben.
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yeah! what humphrmi said!
I just wish I had a blog where I could have written about this weeks ago. I was looking at the Target-wannabe-hipster-shirts in a local Wal*Mart 2 or 3 weeks ago, noticed this shirt, and thought to myself, \"I swear I've seen that skull on The ADL's racist symbols pages.\" I promptly forgot about it and went back to figuring out how to get the hell out of Wal*Mart as quickly as possible. If only I'd known that shirt could have been the key to my 15 minutes, I'd have done more.
humphrmi: We're not plugging his shirts. The links are to show that these shirts exist. It's a tricky question but I think there's a difference between an artists making a statement and a making a buck... maybe a post on this later after I think it over more.
YAY! another post on the shirt!! can't wait!!!
i keed, i keed... i'm actually interested in hearing what consumerist has to say about this; it's an excellent point, humphrmi.
^ that should read \"and a retailer making a buck... \"
\"reach into the foaming eagerness to the feather/spring,\" = \"jump to conclusions.\"
\"Aufsässig\" means \"rebellious.\"
If someone could give us a much better translation of the item copy on this page, that would be fantastic.
It's really asinine...not 100% literal, but:
Okay, boy. Before you jump to conclusions, stop and think about it. This is obviously meant to be provocative, but look at it this way: the evil totenkopf is clearly struck (attacked) by the logo on the cheekbone. That hurt, and now the poor head is purified ('cleaned') and pressed into stylish service to make the world better and rehabilitate(renovate)the bad.
IOW, making fun of a nazi image in the name of style. I apologize for crummy translating, it's been fifteen years since my last german class.
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OK, so this thing showing up AGAIN on my feed is starting to feel like an icepick to the eye. I'm getting tempted to turn off the feed. >:|
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The local Walmart is still selling the t-shirt. I took this photo just a few hours ago.
And here I was amazed that we were going a whole day without the 'skull shirt' story.
Silly me thinking that Ben's obsessions go away that quickly.