April 15, 2008
Pope Culture: Hope vs. Pope
The first in what will hopefully be a series of posts highlighting odd or interesting pieces of pop culture we find popping up around Pope Benedict XVI's visit to D.C. and New York this week.
Did you love Shepard Fairey's Obama posters? Artist Michael Ian Weinfeld has created this limited edition copycat "POPE" print of Benedict XVI in honor of the pontiff's visit to the United States this week. It's available for purchase for $99. (via ANIMAL).
Compare this with the Obama poster after the jump.
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anyone else think that it looks like the pope has a bloody hand? i mean, yes, he [closely] resembles the Emperor, but is this foreshadowing of other evil acts he may bestow upon the heathens?
Uh oh. The color of his vestments are WAY off. That's a venial sin. Better pull these, just like the offensive Metro ad.
$99??? um,
no.
Lame.
It takes a special brand of chutzpah to make a profit by selling images of a religious figure using a cheap photoshop ripoff of the style of another, better-known artist. Anyone stupid enough to give these guys $99 for one of these prints entirely deserves to have their wallet lightened.
As far as Benny himself goes, you'd think a guy with a previous membership in the Hitler Youth to live down would be photographed less frequently in a "Seig Heil!" pose. At least angle the arm a little . . .
The Pope, being infallible, correctly judged that rush hour would be the perfect time to move a 40-vehicle motorcade through DC.
Thanks. I didn't need that 30 minutes of my life anyway.
I'll go ahead and apologize preemptively to the hundreds of other people stuck much further back in that traffic jam who will now be hours late getting home.
They're making games out of the Pope now!
http://www.fyrebug.com/?p=5423
It's either too much or too funny. I can't decide.
Available now for free: that picture of the Pope from your very own color printer!
Maybe you should've thought about putting on a watermark before you expect people to start ponying up $99 for something you've already given them.
is nothing sacred?
(yeah, i'm being facetious)
Hmmm, designed by "artist" Michael Ian Weinfeld (NOT Catholic, would be my guess), printed in a limited edition of 666, and it's a weak Photoshop filter rip-off of the Obama print.
Uh oh, someone's going to hell :-)
Should have done a "Where's Waldo" poster, like on the old (and, much better) SNL with Father Guido Sarducci and his "Finda da Pope ina Da Pizza" contest.