{"id":13411,"date":"2005-06-09T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/watch-ride-and-report\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T16:52:00","slug":"watch-ride-and-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/watch-ride-and-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch, Ride, And Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/06\/07\/dc_trains_have_sovie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Watch, Ride, and Report\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/watchridereport.jpg\" \/><\/a>This could just be some sort of guerilla art, but it&rsquo;s pretty interesting either way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/06\/07\/dc_trains_have_sovie.html\" target=\"_blank\">MARC commuter trains between Baltimore and DC are sporting these terrornoia posters<\/a> styled after the heyday of Stalin&rsquo;s totalitarian regime, when Soviet citizens were exhorted to spy on their neighbors and fink them out for suspicious behavior. And they say irony is dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/artiloop.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/soviet-america.html#111828189273242865\" target=\"_blank\">commenters<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/artiloop.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/soviet-america.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> (linked to in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/mefi\/19713\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter discussion thread<\/a>) found out that the poster is &ldquo;the product of a campaign being run by CSX, the freight transportation company which owns the rail lines MARC operates on.&rdquo;  One of the comments in the MetaFilter thread also points out that a <a href=\"http:\/\/subjunctive.net\/photoblog\/2003\/watchful-eyes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">poster in London<\/a> is similarly creepy, while examples in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbta.com\/traveling_t\/pdf\/MBTA_TW_Brochure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Boston<\/a> (PDF) and <a href=\"http:\/\/floculina.com\/floculina_pictures\/if-you-see-something.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> are less innocuous. <\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/art\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111824029325727866?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could just be some sort of guerilla art, but it&rsquo;s pretty interesting either way. The MARC commuter trains between Baltimore and DC are sporting these terrornoia posters styled after the heyday of Stalin&rsquo;s totalitarian regime, when Soviet citizens were exhorted to spy on their neighbors and fink them out for suspicious behavior. And they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/watch-ride-and-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watch, Ride, And Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}