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(DIR) Post #9mudNZe0KqJskZkjU8 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T11:58:22Z
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Mural on Lothian Road, Edinburgh, depicting Boris Johnson, Kim Jung-un & Donald Trump as babies.The mural is "signed" by The Rebel Bear.#art #MastoArt #politics #BoJo #Trump #Jung-un #Edinburgh
(DIR) Post #9mueNrPgN1b1oWkpLE by kensanata@octodon.social
2019-09-14T12:09:37Z
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@fitheach truly, mural of the three idiots of our times – surely we could always have named three individuals that represented human idiocy, and it’s never these people alone that are responsible for the mess we are in – and perhaps painting them on a mural is a way of externalizing the guilt of those that supported them, I don’t know. But at other times all we want to do is point our fingers and have a laugh, at them, and the people that still support them. Gaaaaaah!
(DIR) Post #9mugrznVxgfSPhOnC4 by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T12:37:29Z
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@kensanata As with any art what the artist meant convey and what viewers take from it may be entirely different things. That is as it should be.For me, this mural is about holding power to account through satire. About countering mainstream media narratives, although, to be fair, those three don't get much positive press in Scotland. Some can affect change through speeches, some through delivering leaflets, others still use art.
(DIR) Post #9muhfLziDuchRedk2a by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T12:46:25Z
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The depictions of Kim Jung-un with the toy missile and Trump with a Lego wall have clear political references, for me.Can anyone explain why Boris Johnson is playing with, what looks like, a box of crayons?#art #MastoArt #politics #BoJo #Trump #JungUn #Edinburgh
(DIR) Post #9muuNIHCbfcK6cXVey by midder@57n.org
2019-09-14T15:05:09.936866Z
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@fitheach I would imagine he doesn't have a full set.
(DIR) Post #9muuNKAXZPTbyXRDYO by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T15:08:41Z
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@midder Along the lines of "one sandwich short of a picnic" or "not the brightest bulb in the box"?
(DIR) Post #9muvbaIUVD8C0LWKMC by kensanata@octodon.social
2019-09-14T15:22:35Z
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@fitheach @midder isn’t that because he likes to paint bus boxes?
(DIR) Post #9muw85gFM8PYbX8FdY by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T15:28:28Z
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@kensanata That might be it. Although, having watched that interview several times (sad, I know) he said he made model busses and painted them. @midder
(DIR) Post #9muwDVYkZ83mJaD0bI by kensanata@octodon.social
2019-09-14T15:26:04Z
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@fitheach https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-painting-buses-wooden-boxes-tory-leadership-race-a8974116.html(I think I saw a Youtube thing where he talked about it. Also the suspicion he did this to confuse search engines about the NHS bus.) @midder
(DIR) Post #9muwDVsFOdejI3KZzU by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T15:29:26Z
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@kensanata https://www.thenational.scot/news/17899455.theory-boris-johnsons-bizarre-bus-bridge-comments/@midder
(DIR) Post #9muxkW2rsdt1KdbEHY by trebach@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-09-14T15:46:30Z
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@fitheach I thought he was eating one of the crayons, but that's just his finger
(DIR) Post #9muy6sKVhvXGoiVtCq by fitheach@mstdn.io
2019-09-14T15:50:40Z
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@trebach He also has one of the crayons stuck in his left ear. Again, the reference is lost on me.