WHATTA MOUTH? WHATTA F***
If you were watching the news last night, most of them had this feature about the largest photo mosaic in the world. And as of 9 PM last night, I think the Philippines had the record.
An article in a paper says that because so many people sent in photos, it shows that whatever the problem is, Filipinos are always smiling. So is this a reason for us to have a smile? I mean it's not everyday that we get a world record right?
WRONG. From my point of view? It's a farce. I believe we were all taken for a ride. I believe that the record shouldn't just be "WORLD'S LARGEST PHOTO MOSAIC". But it should also be called as the "WORLD'S LARGEST COMMERCIAL BILLBOARD".
I mean there we were, smiling, celebrating. All the while, there was a large "CLOSE UP" on the wall. I mean, what was that all about? I know Close-Up was the one who shouldered the expenses and the concept. But they should have had the decency not to include there name. For all intents and purposes, it was commercialism. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I guess I'll be using a different brand from now on. That is, after I finish off the close-up sachet I bought.
posted by Jason at
8:04 AM
3 Comments:
i don't know whether i'm fortunate or unfortunate that i don't get to watch tv these days and so i don't get to see news like that.
i go tsk tsk tsk at the news articles i've been seeing on paper... RP economy up by 6.1% (yeah right), or US lauds RP gov't for crackdown on corruption (what crackdown?), or Filipinos are no longer hungry (sure, maybe that's because the hungry ones already died).
wait... i better blog about this. hehehe.
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the caterpillar, at 9:30 PM, February 01, 2005
Pls. do not be to harsh on those who made that billboard. It is difficult enough to amass that amount of photographs let alone compose it to make a working peice of "functional" art. Sure the motives, as a whole, may have been mixed but do not forget nothing is always what it seems. If you also saw the same series of news articles following the development of the said mosaic, you can pretty much see that "volunteers" did most of the work, most of them students. Whether they were paid or given allowances remains to be seen.
By
Scare Crow, at 7:49 AM, February 05, 2005
Man there is alot of comment spam I have noticed. Is there any way to remove it from the blogs?
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Unknown, at 8:39 AM, October 26, 2005
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