My name is Alan; I'm a 21 year old dude and I consider myself quite the adventurer. This is where I'll reblog pretty much anything and everything, with the occasional post about my life. If you have any questions or just want to chat, my ask box is...
There’s this great early 00s aesthetic of like, fuck it we’re in the future let’s have our UIs seem really alien and futuristic, but also it’s the early 00s and our computers couldn’t actually handle anything that looked really alien and futuristic. Like it was prepackaged retrofuturism
i know exactly the kind of aesthetic you mean but i cannot think of any examples off the top of my head
A lot of the Windows Media Player things were this I feel
toto’s africa, a-ha’s take on me, and the proclaimer’s i’m gonna be (500 miles)
i’ve gotten a lot of people saying that i’m wrong and should have included other songs (all of which are also bangers and include never gonna give you up, come on eileen, and bony m’s rasputin) but not a single person has mentioned the fucking beatles so honestly? this post has been a resounding success and i thank you all for your participation
Public Citizen’s extraordinary new 74-second political ad features audio of Donald Trump promising to end the role of big money, lobbyists, and special interests in politics, contrasted with headlines describing the industrial big-money ties of his transition team and cabinet picks, packed with billionaires, notorious CEOs of corrupt companies, offshoring specialists, and other looters.
I like this ad a lot, but I’m also aware that its storytelling style is seemingly pitched at people like me – people who already think Trump is a hypocrite who would only drain the swamp in DC in order to make it more hospitable to his friendly gators. The “conspiracy theory” political ads of the Tea Party and Trump right – the people that Public Citizen is seemingly trying to reach – make more sparing use of written material (especially newspaper headlines) (especially especially headlines from Trump whipping-posts like the New York Times and Washington Post) and hammer home their points with sinister baritone voice-overs of the “In a world” movie-trailer genre.
The “post-truth” era isn’t one where we’ve ceased to agree on what’s true: it’s one where we’ve ceased to agree on what makes something true. The signifiers of truth have radically diverged. The way that conspiracy-minded Trump voters know something is true (birtherism, climate denial, lies about crime statistics) includes that storytelling style, the voice-overs and sinister color-gamut shifts. Telling this story in a way that speaks to how people who hate Trump determine truth feels like a wasted opportunity. I hope I’m wrong – I can’t imagine Public Citizen finalized this ad without focus-grouping and other tests – but I think that figuring out how to add the trumpian signifiers of truth to anti-Trump messages has to be part of the playbook for defeating trumpism in America.
