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- rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In America they call propaganda "PR" or Public Relations. The name was changed from Propaganda to PR in the early 20th century by Edward Bernays. He figured if you could use propaganda in war time you could also use it in peace time. But the word propaganda had been so demonized during WWI so he decided to call it Public Relations. Read about Bernays here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Eh, blocking? That's the sissy way. A real man whines until he has his way.
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7this one looks cool too
2800 WWII posters: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594121519817/ - rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Really great. A good resource for study by graphic designers. I wish they were higher resolution. But still a great collection. Also the headline says this is a Flickr Group, but's a set in someones account. A Flickr group is a collection that multiple users can contribute to.
- kremvax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Same lies. Different liar.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Blocking fails to address the problem- if spam is seen as being acceptable behaviour (because people who care just block/ignore), then it becomes acceptable behaviour.
I'd rather Digg disabled links and have to manually copy and paste URLs I actually have an interest in (ooh- 3 whole clicks) than read a bunch of inane comments that are blatantly only posted as a thinly veiled excuse to spam a blog URL.
There's enough inane comments without them, thank you. - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/136039847/in/set-72057594117941491/
...Prince? - OverThere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"is there an easy to download a large group of photos (say, these 25 pages)"
yup.
http://www.greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm
seems to work, as I'm downloading all of them right now. - diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6i was going to ask where we could see the flickr group of american propaganda. good point, though i think you meant foxnews.com (of course all american mainstream news is pretty much the same).
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heh. Butthead: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/135857360/in/set-72057594117941491/
- elvirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4there is noth to do with propoganda. all these are theatre posters. noth ideological. and some of them are in ukranian not in russian. i think these are posters of one of ukranian theatres thats it. not with propoganda
- Funny192, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes very interesting - I'm glad for the chap who decided to comment on most of the posters, giving us English-speaking people some insight as to what it is saying in it's native language.
Thanks, G! :-) - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Almost none of them are the typical war propaganda posters, so the headline is kinda wrong, but they're still beautiful...Soviet postering has inspired legions of graphic artists.
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8*clicks*
Nope. None of those things you mentioned.
Idiot. - thefirelane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4you can do it pretty easily on a Mac using automator (I think, I've done something similiar, but not with this site)
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4hah, rather interesting.nnquestion: is there an easy to download a large group of photos (say, these 25 pages) from flickr ? thanks. :)
- techbuzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hahah. "SHE MAY LOOK CLEAN - BUT" http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/137779930/in/set-72057594121519817/
- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Very sweet. Shame that the newer propaganda is even better. Just check cnn.com to get your hilarious daily propaganda :)
- kremvax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Corporate owned, corporate sponsored, they sure aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them...
- GreenLantern33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't really call this stuff propaganda, but it's neat eitherway
- shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3In Soviet Russia, the watch got you.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11Stop spamming your useless blog, you ***** moron. How many times do we have to tell you?
- warfang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish there was some kind of description for what eachone was trying to portray or what they say. Very spectacular though. I love how technology allows us to do this.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You could use the Flickr API to search for all files in the group, then use something like the system() command to download each image (Something like wget)
Theres a lot of scripts around, I've played around with phpFlickr, and it was good and fairly simple to use..
Thought I'd be carefull downloading all that Russian propganda, remeber what propoganda is! (Yes I'm joking..)
- Ben - tedwardo2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5"orvellian world nations" = nations that are reminiscent of the distopias portrayed in the great novels of Orville Redenbacher?
- kohan69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can read russian, and most of them aren't propoganda, but flyers to different events...
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Frankly, yes, if someone is posting something inane and irrelevant, they'll get dugg down anyway. But we're all people here with freedom of choice. You can endorse your freedom by not clicking their blog. It's just a blog. It's not even pr0n or malware or anything. It's just a blog.
Step off your high horse, and learn to be a community member. And, you know what? Post your blog too. Maybe you have some important things that people should hear. That's the internet, boys. - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm looking for a US propaganda poster that I saw in a US DOD facility.
On the lower 1/2 of the picture was the earth. Behind the earth stood a bear which you saw from the chest up.
The bear was dressed in a Russian military jacket he was wearing old style carbon headphones.
The bear was posed so one hand was pressed to the head phones as if he was listening to something intently.
There was text on the picture that said something like. "Be careful what you say, the bear is listening.".
I would have loved to have gotten a picture of this poster but being where I was when I saw the poster.
I would still be in jail for having the camera there. I want a copy of this poster.. - Kazrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Amazing typography, Russian designers rock!!
- Sell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have no idea what the posters say. how can anyone digg it without knowing what they are diggin?
- kidblast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yea, i think you're right.
i love looking at this kinda stuff...it's great inspiration for me as a designer. - madIvan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Surely you meant Faux News :) Not that CNN was much better...
- anonymonk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Soogy, why don't you simply block him?
- bigwinnerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wrote a program to mass download from Flickr. Kinda beta, but give it a try.
http://www.leiderman.org/Downloadr/ - ChuckTaylor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol@ that spider on the flickr page having 10 legs
- orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1man my old undergrad art teacher was so into these. got to forward him that list. good stuffings.
- alexcount, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2These are all very interesting, but I clicked on ~15 and not one was "propaganda" as you might think, most were just movie posters and other interesting artwork from the soviet era.
Edit: there are some good propaganda one's in there thou, - kenwestin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1means "fake rolex"
- faddat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish that I could give you an answer. Instead, I have to ask a question on top of your question. Is anyone aware of a utility that interacts with Flickr for manipulating full-quality images? The only one that I am aware of is Slickr, a screensaver that uses images from Flickr. Slickr is very cool, but it just leaves you wanting more.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 They would make great band posters, if you have a band.
- commongiga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just got a watch from Soviet Russia, and was wondering if anyone knows what the word "hECTb" means (the h is upside down), or the word. 3(letter that looks like pi)OX(backwards N).
- baskervillain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed! This is an excellent group.
- kremvax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"If something can be 'digitized' Flickr will have it. I've lost many a day browsing around flickr..."
Yes, and in that vein...
If something can be 'digitized, the INTERNET will have it! I particularly enjoy this Amazing Internet-based Free VOIP Phone Service: http://ideasip.com
No one will ever suspect my sekrit linking motive.... hmmmm.....Huh. It still looks like spam, doesn't it? Must find a better disguise! - hadees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know of a way to download the full size version of all these images from linux? I tried some of the windows programs under wine and they didn't work.
- madIvan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most of them are either advertisements or public service posters ("only you can prevent forest fires" kind of thing) but neat nevertheless...
- MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a group posting old Chinese Propaganda?
- shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to see that too. I have a similiar russian one that translates to something similiar about the enemy lisitening. It's from WW2 era, I got it on ebay.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1isn't this from "un chien andalou" right before her eye gets sliced in half?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/136039847/in/set-72057594117941491/ - popstalin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For mac users who want to automate download of these images, you can use Automator. I haven't found a way to get all of the pages at once but here's something to start with.
1. Get Current Webpage from Safari
2. Get Image URLs from webpage (I have the options set for "linked from these webpages.")
3. Filter URLs ( name contains .jpg)
4. Download URLs (set your preferred download location.)
5. Save file.
6. Click "Run" - shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is plenty of propoganda throughout all of this, some of it directed at the US, some of it just nationalistic soviet propoganda.
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