There’s a Kenneth Cole poster outside of Nordstrom’s that shouts out:
“You are on a video camera over 20 times a day. Are you dressed for it?”
Cole is known for its hip, ironic, outrageous statements, all in the name of selling clothes. And hats off for another winner there.
But this one, I think, sort of tips over to the other side. Because we really are that casual about omni-surveillance. People don’t walk by the Cole poster and stop to stare. They just walk by. Or maybe they pause to see what pants they’re wearing.
And there it is, on the streets of San Francisco — one of those futures we were warned about as kids.
Heavy, wake up em up Cecil. It’s so unreal, or surreal, or regular-real (?) to wake up to the fact that we are just about there. Denial makes it no better.
Heavy, wake up em up Cecil. It’s so unreal, or surreal, or regular-real (?) to wake up to the fact that we are just about there. Denial makes it no better.
Irony is the last resort of the self-defeating. Well, not always, but sometimes.