December 5, 2009
Copenhagen: Greenpeace’s Ole’ Bama
Just days away from Copenhagen, Greenpeace and tcktcktck.org have created a series of posters for the Copenhagen airport visioning world leaders, now past their prime, having missed the chance to act. Subverting Obama’s good looks and vitality (same, particularly, with Sarkozy) and exploiting the fact that time goes by faster than most of us like to think, the concept — playing the “mortality card” — hits home.
Greenpeace billboard slideshow + Merkel. More stills at current.
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mon_oeil said:
In this image President Obama rather looks like Julian Bond, who is 69, though it does not give him justice. I think in 2020 Obama at 59 will look younger than this constructed image.
See Obama and Bond: http://keywiki.org/images/8/86/Julian-bond-barack-obama.jpg
pcalvin said:
I am surprised no one has taken a similar approach to the healthcare debate.
On another note, Bond’s aged appearance in the above linked image contrasts with seeing him on television at the Democratic national convention in 1968 when some suggested he would be the VP candidate on the ticket. Interviewed on the convention floor, he told a reporter that he was too young to to serve. He was 28.
ratfood said:
Just watched the slideshow at the Greenpeace site. Seems odd that the billboards are apparently all in English.
bystander said:
These panels strike me as so probable, they’re nearly painful to view. Why would I want to examine today the abject sorrow I’m going to feel in 20 years? I can only hope that they have the same “shot to the solar plexus” effect on the various leaders they depict, and moves them to action.
Stan B. said:
Offering apologies? I don’t think so! Pointing fingers- yes…