Propaganda

Official government communications to the public that are designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully selected for its political effect.

- American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition

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A 46-year-old scholar with an international personal and cultural background will be the next leader of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

On Friday, the museum’s board of trustees announced the appointment of Julian Zugazagoitia, director of the Museo del Barrio in New York, as its fifth director.

Born in Mexico City and educated at the Sorbonne, Zugazagoitia has been director of the Museum del Barrio since 2002. Before that he was executive assistant to the director at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he organized the big “Brazil Body and Soul exhibition.” In 2002 he was a curator of the 25th Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil.

Kansas City Star

“Shopping turned on its head” isn’t just a meaningless tagline for GAP. They literally mean it. To promote their new loyalty program, Sprize, the GAP in Vancouver, BC turned its entire store upside-down. All of the mannequins, displays and even the sign were flipped, as well as some cars and a hotdog stand outside of the store.

Emphasis is mine. I’m a pretty lukewarm GAP fan, but I like seeing them take something as tired as “Shopping turned on its head” and making it seem fresh with a real commitment to the campaign. Checkout some pictures at Design Fetish.

DJ Headphones T-Shirt

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are: there’s only one way to let the world know you’re a DJ other than spinning actual music, just put one can up to the side of your head and bob to the rhythm. All of a sudden it’s like, YEAH! The wheels on this bus aren’t the only thing going ’round and ’round, son! My head’s not a binary switch, not even close… uhn-tiss uhn-tiss uhn-tiss…

200 Nipples DJ Shirt

I used to know a lot of drug dealers “DJ’s” that always had some other crap job supporting their music-mashing habit. (Making them no different from other performers.) I always appreciated them for playing the newest form of musical instruments. I also envied their ability to create new music from old as something special.

This shirt is for those who appreciate these new musicians, as well as the musicians themselves. (Oh, and for the nay-sayers who think DJ’s aren’t actually playing an instrument, you’re dead wrong. I’d suggest you watch either of these two videos or maybe a Girl Talk album, and tell me they aren’t creating rythms and in some cases even melody and harmony that didn’t exist before, but I digress…)

“DJ ON!” goes on sale on the home page March 8th, 2010 at 12:00am (US CST). Enjoy…

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