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Posters and Flyers
I've also had a lot of fun making flyers. I was at WTAMU in Canyon, TX, at the start of this most recent unjustified war. Since my student fees funded the computer lab, I got an allowance of 1500 prints in the lab. Not wanting to waste this valuable opportunity, I printed out many 11x17 posters for the school. I wish I had the first one, but it is lost. It was a poster that mimicked the Young Conservatives of Texas' nationalistic portrait of G.W. Bush on a flyer advertising a "Support the Troops' rally. I am still not exactly sure how one supports someone by putting them in a more dangerous position.
Some of us students decided to attend the rally (as it was an open invitation); to help the YCT bolster their numbers, I produced a similar flyer aimed at getting even more people to attend. To appeal to a larger audience, I decided to use a picture of bush posed in a very similar way as in the YCT poster, but with the President "Seigheil-ing." Of course, they called out the police to keep us off the grass and away from their "First Iraq, Then France" signs (that is NOT a joke).
If you'd like, I believe that both myself and the then-vice-president of the YCT tell our stories here and here. A micro-level story for all you Latourians out there.
But all that fluff that aside, the posters I designed and placed around campus were mostly to remind people that using a single leader to prop up jingoistic pro-war rhetoric has a lot of valid historical precedent.
The other posters were basically imitations of Warhol's Mao or the lovely and forthright Mussolini Dux, both of which seem to me exactly in line with the presentation of Bush on the flight-deck of an aircraft carrier only a few months later.
