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weirded out by newsstandsOften I'm next to a news stand and I can't help but wondering at the bizzare (at times alarmingly so) sight of all those magazines lined up, smiling faces on them. If a face is not smiling, it's guaranteed to be that of a celebrity or semi-celebrity in some (real or imagined) stressful situation. Example: "Madonna horrified at the price of lettuce!!" or some such tripe. I look at the smiling faces and I wonder exactly why the smile, or the laugh, or the happiness. Who hit on the facade first as a magazine-selling mechanism? Is it a selling mechanism? Do the people that work designing the covers, a new smiley face every week enjoy their job? Do they find it fulfilling? Wondering about all of this doesn't really give me any good answers (particularly since I ask these questions to myself :)), but at least it seems to relieve the weird-out effect and then I can go on and ignore the news stand and its printed, smiling faces until the next time it happens. Categories: personalPosted by diego on July 30 2003 at 4:40 PM Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).
Also, do you ever notice how all the womens magazines are grouped together at one end of the racks, and how they are like this HUGE mass of orange/pink/purple/white/yellow/red that distinguishes them from the rest of the magazines on the rack? Even from a half a km away you can *still* see exactly where the cosmo/redbook/etc/etc are on the racks. I'm sure there's some with them all using the same colors, or the same tones of colors... Posted by: Arcterex at July 30, 2003 5:07 PMYeah, the matching of colors and themes is popular apparently. Glad to see I'm not alone in this detached observation of some oft-ignored slices of modern life :)) Posted by: Diego at July 30, 2003 9:37 PMCopyright © Diego Doval 2002-2007.
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