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Alphaville & Hitler's Barcoded Moustache!
Filmhaus - wrote on 04/15/2021
Semiotics (the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation) was my bread and butter in college as a Visual Communications & Design Major.
I discovered early on that people are wired to connect meaning between images shown side by side, regardless of whether they mean to or not. An example of this was when I turned Hitler's moustache into a barcode for an art project, and my professor gave me an "A."
But I'd have been hard-pressed to tell you what it meant.
One person might have come the conclusion I meant to imply demagogues are a product of social commercialism, while another might have thought I was making a statement about the quantification of the natural world into numbers as form of fascist oppression.
However, the truth was much simpler.
For me, …
