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News & ArtsMonday, August 10, 2009
Drugs Re: A Couple Questions about the Press Release Hempfest Just Released
Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM
As Frizzelle mentions, Hempfest's theme this year is a little, um, cryptic. Here's a poster that captures the "hempen future"—a future in which hemp is harvested under the skyline, a future in which Hempfest is "18 and barely legal," and a future in which "Elliott Bay" has shed one of its letters:
In all fairness, Hempfest is a lovely lady. I just think she needs a life coach.
1
Again with the spelling/grammatical errors. Seriously folks, I will proofread all of your posters and literature for free, just please stop perpetuating the stereotype that every marijuana user is borderline illiterate with simple, lazy mistakes like this.
2
I can appreciate the whole populist worker's propaganda art theme more than that goofy bubble font Woodstockish hippy-dippy crap.
Yes, in the future, Seattle will be the urban utopia for babushka-wearing Rosie-the-Riveter pothead farmgirls.
Cool by me.
Yes, in the future, Seattle will be the urban utopia for babushka-wearing Rosie-the-Riveter pothead farmgirls.
Cool by me.
3
The Seattle Weekly is a sponsor and The Stranger is not and you have the BALLS to criticize! Well aren't we becoming the pompous ones.
Here puff on this and make it all feel better...
Here puff on this and make it all feel better...
4
Maybe if all of Seattle got stoned more often they wouldn't build any more light rail and stop taxing the rest of us.
6
(A) Why the hell is the Weekly a sponsor and the Stranger not? I mean, come on. What, about 95% of the Stranger staff tokes, right? And stoners must be one of your core reader groups, right? What gives?
(B) Yes, it is a terrible poster. But it is an improvement over the last one. At least this has a legible font. The last one with the groovy bubble font might have been full of typos... if only I could have read it.
(B) Yes, it is a terrible poster. But it is an improvement over the last one. At least this has a legible font. The last one with the groovy bubble font might have been full of typos... if only I could have read it.
7
Also worth mentioning about this poster...
That cannabis has clearly been harvested before it has flowered.
So it's for fiber, not toking.
That cannabis has clearly been harvested before it has flowered.
So it's for fiber, not toking.
8
Maybe this is why Seattle Weekly is on their sponsor page, and the Stranger is not. http://hempfest.org/drupal/sponsors
13
@12 dude, I can't stand those posters. 1999 can stay right where it is. He does way better work than those posters indicate, anyway.
I liked the direction last year's poster was headed, too bad that didn't continue.
You know what I suggest? Open art call, winning designer gets $, publicity, and a merch booth at Hempfest.
I liked the direction last year's poster was headed, too bad that didn't continue.
You know what I suggest? Open art call, winning designer gets $, publicity, and a merch booth at Hempfest.
14
It's not about the posters, it's all the leftover Bob Marley, tie-dye, spiritual crystal, superannuated hippie-baggage. Totally dilutes the broad populist wave that they should be cultivating. The poster, the booths, the mix of focused speeches and burbling touchy-feeley crap just piss away the great potential of the event. Even with all these flaws, I'm glad they are still doing it. Sorry to be on the wrong continent at the wrong time...
15
And what's with the "Barely Legal"?
I don't think porn jokes are helping the cause.
Which is the problem. Hempfest, unfortunately, remains a celebration of the hippy-nonsense outlined @14 and not an activist front as it proposes. The "Cause" takes a back seat to the vibe every time.
I'd like to see a poster that looks like one of those Verizon billboards - a picture of the "Network"; a crowd of thousands of people that look like they rolled out of any neighborhood - who could be anybody.
I don't think porn jokes are helping the cause.
Which is the problem. Hempfest, unfortunately, remains a celebration of the hippy-nonsense outlined @14 and not an activist front as it proposes. The "Cause" takes a back seat to the vibe every time.
I'd like to see a poster that looks like one of those Verizon billboards - a picture of the "Network"; a crowd of thousands of people that look like they rolled out of any neighborhood - who could be anybody.
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