COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT
I saw this on craigslist. (The company name has been removed because I can’t justify giving them name recognition even with the four people who read this site):
xxxxx: The World’s First Body Billboard Advertising
Attention Shoppers! Want to make some big cash from some of your favorite Company brands and products? Consider getting tattooed with your favorite logo or product name.
Never mind newspapers magazines, internet, television or billboards, how about body branding?
xxxxx Inkorporated, a local Vancouver based company is the first of its kind to take the art of tattooing and take it to the next level; the corporate level.
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Forget about the “Barbed Wire” that Pamela Anderson wears around her bicep, how about a Mercedes or Nike logo? Do you have what it takes to be branded by Prada, or Chanel or Armani? With its International database of registrants, xxxxx Inkorporated matches the Corporations with their database of members. It’s that simple.
Well sign me the right the fuck up for a motherfucking Prada logo right on my ballsack! Sir I assure you my scrotum has what it takes!!!
Part of me really wants to believe that it’s a prank, just because it seems so over the top. What with capitalizing the word “corporation” and the fact that they regard the “next level” of tattoo art to be the corporate level, this has to be a joke right? Are they maybe collecting names of people willing to get logos branded on their bodies, and then sending ninja assassins to liquidate these sad people? Because I could maybe get behind that.
Reminds me of this article about OK Soda, a cola which was brought to market solely to deliver a covert brand message of OK-ness.
I think I would be willing to get The Baffler’s logo tattooed on my body. Then everyone would think my nickname was “The Baffler,” which is pretty cool.