We rambunctiously support higher education. We love semiotics. When we received a request over the weekend from the University of Tartu Department of Semiotics — that combined both of our passions — we were delighted to help!
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The other night, I was half-watching television and half-listening to the radio when a commercial popped on the TV screen. I thought someone had changed the channel from TLC’s newest fetish show, Our Little Lives and I was watching a comedy skit for a new product called “Booty Pop.”
I have always been shocked and amazed when people we know and love take time and effort to publish — what they’re about to turn into poop — on the public interwebs. Yes, I’m taking about the infectious internets viral phenomenon we’ll call… “Food Imagery and the Mastication Memorial.”
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The killing of Neda Agha-Soltan during the election turmoil in Iran has become an instant semiotic full of rage and mortal memeing. Neda’s bloody death mask is now the face of hope for repressed Iranian citizens looking for a way out of the morass of religious repression.
Subliminal advertising — using semiotic images to suggest sexuality in magazine and print advertising that could only be read by the subconscious mind — had its heyday in the 1970’s as ice cubes in the shape of breasts appeared in liquor ads and, the most famous example by far, was Farrah Fawcett’s bestselling poster with “Sex” written with the curls of her hair. The “S” starts on her shoulder and your eye can make out an “e” near her chest and a twisted “x” above her left breast and under her armpit. I can guarantee you the young, horny, boys of the mid-70’s like me were never looking at her hair…
Janna gave me a wonderful present last night: Jack The Cat immortalized forever in a ten-pound 3D Hologram cube of optical glass. Jack hasn’t been feeling well — he’s doing better now — so it was a delight to see Jack-in-the-Cube’s glimmering face looking back at me in a 3D Hologram.
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While it is inhuman to want for immortality — that impossible task is now possible if you have the right tangent and talent.
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