2738.This photo (found at the URL http://www.picsthatdontsuck.com/web/Lol_Drowning.html) demonstrates exactly what what can happen in the modern world when simplification goes just a bit too far:
If it weren't for the Internet, this would be a totally-clever way of depicting a drowning man reaching for air … which it is.
Totally clever, I mean.
But with the Internet culture we all find ourselves immersed in (designers perhaps a little more than most), I defy you, depending on your age cohort, to see this as anything more than a procedure to laugh out loud, then call 911.
Pays to be cognizant of these things.
If it weren't for the Internet, this would be a totally-clever way of depicting a drowning man reaching for air … which it is.
Totally clever, I mean.
But with the Internet culture we all find ourselves immersed in (designers perhaps a little more than most), I defy you, depending on your age cohort, to see this as anything more than a procedure to laugh out loud, then call 911.
Pays to be cognizant of these things.
3 comments:
Perhaps try to save them first and then call 911.
Why didn't we think of that? B-)
The "lol" drowning sign could be fixed by "whiting out" the bottom half of the o ...
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