The posts have been coming a bit slowly lately because of a couple of different projects that I’ve been fiddling with for the past few days (more on that in the very near future). Recent discoveries in the public arts, though–thanks to No Treason 2005/08/12–demand notice.

You may have already known about the Baltimore city government’s post-2001 revival of Socialist Realist agitprop:

What you may not have known about yet is that the British government has decided to make everyone feel much safer with the following poster:

I’d make a joke, but the problem is that reality is outpacing any parody I could try to draw up.

Jesus. Don’t these people read?