Add brilliance! Digital artist asks why we laugh at North Korea | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/20/north-korea-meme-generator-kim-jong-un
An artist may well have invented the internet’s dream: a North Korea meme generator.
Inspired by the release of 310 new political propaganda slogans by North Korea last week, Eric Drass, a painter and digital artist based in the UK, has used a mathematical algorithm to randomly generate a new set of political phrases.
Like a typical Tweetbot, the program adds the words to a randomly selected picture of Kim Jong-un before tweeting them as @NK_markov.
The original statements released by the ruling Worker’s Party of Korea covered everything from green-fingered encouragement: “Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms!” and “Grow vegetables extensively in greenhouses!”, to orders to celebrate the legacy of the Kim dynasty.
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Grow vegetables extensively! North Korea unveils 310 new slogans | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/grow-vegetables-extensively-north-korea-unveils-310-new-slogans
North Korea has unveiled an exclamation mark peppered list of 310 new political slogans covering every conceivable topic, from the glories of the ruling Kim dynasty and mushroom cultivation to the importance of dependable wives and “offensive” sports.
Oh, and the perennial need to wipe out US imperialist scum.
Political slogans are an intrinsic part of the relentless, daily propaganda formula that North Koreans are weaned on almost from birth.
Those published by the official KCNA news agency on Thursday were drafted by the ruling Worker’s Party of Korea (WKP) to mark the 70th anniversaries its founding and of the liberation of the Korean peninsula from Japanese rule.
