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Actually you know what I'm probably thinking about it far too deeply...

[Nooc210]

so what is D a closet-racist now, although he stands on stage w/ G, Andy & Martina??

come on now...

[rzys]

The image on the forehead makes me think about :
- David Lynch's Eraserhead
- some old Georges Méliès film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melies)

The face makes me think about :
- a mix between D & G's faces (we've seen before)
- the old american movies where black people were played by white actors (with shoe polish on their faces). There is a Spike Lee film which treats this subject : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozled

[damian]

Originally Posted by Nooc210

so what is D a closet-racist now

i don't think anyone has suggested that the art is racist...

and does anyone think this minstrel analogy can be extended to white guys who rap?

[poizzenapple]

Originally Posted by rzys

The image on the forehead makes me think about :
- David Lynch's Eraserhead
- some old Georges Méliès film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melies)

The face makes me think about :
- a mix between D & G's faces (we've seen before)
- the old american movies where black people were played by white actors (with shoe polish on their faces). There is a Spike Lee film which treats this subject : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozled

slightly reminds me a characters from movie "9"

[rzys]

Originally Posted by damian

i don't think anyone has suggested that the art is racist...

and does anyone think this minstrel analogy can be extended to white guys who rap?

I don't think either than anything in this cover is racist

[Richard]

I think its a running joke with some people, or maybe just political correctness gone mad, to see any little innocuous thing as racist or discriminatory against someone.

[Nooc210]

Originally Posted by damian

i don't think anyone has suggested that the art is racist...

and does anyone think this minstrel analogy can be extended to white guys who rap?

Hmm, Touche.

that puts things in to perspective for me.
D also seems to know a thing or two about marketing/advertisement which still leads me to believe his initial explanation of the piece to be very on point.

[siddhartha]

Tube bans Massive Attack's Album



No, the London Underground haven't started to ban people's choice of music on the Tube. But the band's artwork has fallen foul of the censors because the artwork for the album below looks too much like graffiti.

Robert del Naja, the band's artist explains "They won't allow anything on the tube that looks like 'street art'. They want us to remove all drips and fuzz from it so it doesn't look like it's been spray-painted, which is f**king ridiculous. It's the most absurd censorship I've ever seen."

He's obviously not seen previous censorship on the Tube, which included making a Nip/Tuck ad less sexy, making buns that covered Kelly Brooks boobs bigger, temporarily censoring a nude work of art, not allowing a poster of a fat Jesus and there's more since I've been blogging.

As Londonist said "TfL appear to be taking the lowest common denominator approach over their advertising guidelines and applying the somewhat dubious assumption that such posters will inflame latent graffitical tendencies among us, when the only graffiti most Tube travellers would be tempted to undertake would be to correct the service information board with accurate updates."

Do you think TfL have a point? Are there other ads that you've seen on the Tube which you think should be banned as they might encourage anti social or illegal behaviour?

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