George Seurat’s La Grande Jatte and John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence, Pepper Spray Used…
“When a video of UC-Davis police Lt. John Pike casually pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters hit the web on November 18, 2011 it sparked outrage. It also gave birth to an internet meme. On November 20, artist James Alex started a trend by photoshopping Pike and his giant pepper spray canister into iconic paintings like George Seurat’s La Grande Jatte and John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence and posting them on his Tumblr account. A day later, the meme had spread across the internet, with Photoshop-savvy netizens inserting Pike into an array of iconic images.” Quote & Image Source: motherjones.com
A competitive shopper pepper sprays other customers and police use it to stop a peaceful protest…
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The more that this type of incident ocurrs, the more ppl will mobilize. Information travels quickly on the net. A potentail problem is that ppl can be “provoked” to think and react in any predetermined way depending on the verity of the image. In short, give me an image or video….and I can provoke you ….or calm you in msecs…depending on my edits and accuracy at pushing your buttons. Is also fairly easy to do using ONLY plain txt…language is a virus.