subliminal SEX message SEX

June 12, 2005 3:40 PM

Does anyone know who made the image on this shirt and were i can find a nice print or high-res image of it?

Also, is the subliminal message too obvious?

posted by puke & cry to media & arts (10 comments total)

damnit. here's the shirt.
posted by puke & cry at 3:41 PM on June 12, 2005

It jumped right out at me.
posted by sourwookie at 4:05 PM on June 12, 2005

Yes, it is too obvious.
posted by drezdn at 4:06 PM on June 12, 2005

Yes, it's obvious. It's also a really horrible shirt. And I found the woman wearing it to be very unappealing, despite her best efforts at mind control.

Maybe the people who are selling the shirt are the people to ask about hi-res images. They even have a contact page on the site.
posted by nylon at 4:35 PM on June 12, 2005

The pollination metaphor is extremely obvious, as well, and actually struck me first, then I scrolled to the more naughty one.

But what is really obvious is that the greyish background was hastily removed by a shoddy editing software, ala Microsoft Image Composer (lol!).
posted by tweak at 7:56 PM on June 12, 2005

Dreadful. Also, it's not subliminal at all - it's just use of dead space.
posted by forallmankind at 9:21 PM on June 12, 2005

It says here: Artwork by Nelson Carrick
posted by golo at 9:44 PM on June 12, 2005

I remember seeing this design on a poster in a head shop in the early 1980s. Apparently August Bullock, who wrote the book this image was on the cover of, designed it.
posted by BoringPostcards at 9:47 PM on June 12, 2005

Ha ha ha - I just read the blurb on the page: "Laboratory experiments have shown that illusions of this type can influence people's behaviour without their realizing it."

P-lease!! (oh, and it's not an illusion either)....
posted by forallmankind at 9:47 PM on June 12, 2005

well, that's depressing.
posted by puke & cry at 12:03 AM on June 13, 2005