Comments on: The price of being COOL? http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-price-of-being-cool/ ... u can't c me ... Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: 5150e http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-price-of-being-cool/#comment-114 5150e Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:26:07 +0000 http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-114 This is such an awesome way to tap into the back of the public's mind and change their feelings toward the company without them even knowing. Many people, especially children, look up to their favorite TV and cartoon characters/heroes. What we see are those heroes turning into products or even entire companies. I predict that in the near future we will see many more ads dressed up with this sort of fashion. such an awesome short cartoon. btw If the coolhunter was 3D with a view on the Sprawl, reading these comments makes you the _5D___Hunter with a 4D view onto cyberspace. This is such an awesome way to tap into the back of the public’s mind and change their feelings toward the company without them even knowing. Many people, especially children, look up to their favorite TV and cartoon characters/heroes. What we see are those heroes turning into products or even entire companies. I predict that in the near future we will see many more ads dressed up with this sort of fashion. such an awesome short cartoon.

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If the coolhunter was 3D with a view on the Sprawl, reading these comments makes you the _5D___Hunter with a 4D view onto cyberspace.

]]> By: camouflageculture http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-price-of-being-cool/#comment-108 camouflageculture Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:02:30 +0000 http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-108 MORE WIN via FAIL: click the video and read the COMMENTS on YouTube. I can't tell whether people are typing ignorant to be cool, really can't type, or really are that stupid... people appear mystified, mind raped, stunned... pure victimhood. If the coolhunter was 3D with a view on the Sprawl, reading these comments makes you the ____Hunter with a 4D view onto cyberspace. Fire at will. Too bad they have nothing of value we'd want to take. MORE WIN via FAIL: click the video and read the COMMENTS on YouTube. I can’t tell whether people are typing ignorant to be cool, really can’t type, or really are that stupid… people appear mystified, mind raped, stunned…

pure victimhood.

If the coolhunter was 3D with a view on the Sprawl, reading these comments makes you the ____Hunter with a 4D view onto cyberspace.

Fire at will. Too bad they have nothing of value we’d want to take.

]]> By: astrangerwithcandy http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-price-of-being-cool/#comment-104 astrangerwithcandy Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:41:13 +0000 http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-104 i love how after the murder, when he dons the jacket, he levitates and resembles da vinci's vitruvian man; as if this is the ideal man. very very cool. i love how after the murder, when he dons the jacket, he levitates and resembles da vinci’s vitruvian man; as if this is the ideal man.

very very cool.

]]> By: camouflageculture http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-price-of-being-cool/#comment-102 camouflageculture Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:12:47 +0000 http://camouflageculture.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-102 *WIN*WIN*WIN*WIN* Note: the shots of the character's shooz... which push BAPE (Bathing Ape) product at an almost subliminal level. Q: is it the mockery of street fashion or the mockery of the ecosystem? THE SPRAWL. What makes this piece fascinating is how it almost devours itself. As a piece of media it can't possibly hope to *stop* the exploitation of The Sprawl... so it tries to be self-aware, and also nihilistic given the fact that the coolhunter wins (love the fact that it STOPS TIME to sample the street). The viewer is *entertained* because they can recognize the cycle of cool, but they are blessed with cool because they've seen the animation. You are all now cool. Note: the coolhunter is rendered in 3D while the rest of the piece is 2D. Very intentional because the coolhunters literally operate in a higher dimension -- if The Sprawl is 2D, then those who hunt The Sprawl have access to that third axis... We know that the Gorilla is a symbol of BAPE... but it's also a traditional symbol of Black people in the West. BAPE *knows* this. So there is another interesting level of self-awareness operating here. oh, what a rich bit of forensics we have here! *WIN*WIN*WIN*WIN*

Note: the shots of the character’s shooz… which push BAPE (Bathing Ape) product at an almost subliminal level.

Q: is it the mockery of street fashion or the mockery of the ecosystem? THE SPRAWL.

What makes this piece fascinating is how it almost devours itself. As a piece of media it can’t possibly hope to *stop* the exploitation of The Sprawl… so it tries to be self-aware, and also nihilistic given the fact that the coolhunter wins (love the fact that it STOPS TIME to sample the street). The viewer is *entertained* because they can recognize the cycle of cool, but they are blessed with cool because they’ve seen the animation. You are all now cool.

Note: the coolhunter is rendered in 3D while the rest of the piece is 2D. Very intentional because the coolhunters literally operate in a higher dimension — if The Sprawl is 2D, then those who hunt The Sprawl have access to that third axis…

We know that the Gorilla is a symbol of BAPE… but it’s also a traditional symbol of Black people in the West. BAPE *knows* this. So there is another interesting level of self-awareness operating here.

oh, what a rich bit of forensics we have here!

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