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gx:
the sf jacket is a popular jacket that’s been sold throughout tourist destinations like fisherman’s wharf & chinatown since at least the 80s. you can now pay more $$ for the same jacket, but with a gx1000 logo!!!
sf:
gx:
i remember the bus image thing was worked out with the artist shortly afterwards.
sf:
gx:
yamo is a burmese/chinese noodle spot
in the mission. i think yamo & gx might have a good relationship with each other but i do hope funds from the sticker sales go to the restaurant.
mostly appropriation from the florida crew, whoever that may be nowadays but i don’t think any are actually from sf.
TL;DR warning: ding dong blabbering in 5... 4... 3... 2...
To be clear, I’m not tryna come to the defense of the GX crew, but a little context here may be beneficial.
If you live here, you’ve seen the numerous iterations of the bus beanies already. The graff shop has one, there’s some BS boutique spot on Valencia with THEIR OWN version, each w/ whatever bus runs through their neighborhood/past their shop, etc, etc, etc. Muni is our UBIQUITOUS, local bus/streetcar service provider (gosh bless the SF Municipal Railway.) Mission skateshop on 24th even boosted Muni’s font directly. No biggie.
The fact that an SF Muni bus was featured on a garment does not, in “this dude’s” eyes, make for copyright infringement. Example: locals all know the tourist-targeted, floppy, dad-style ball caps featuring some depiction of a cable car on it. There are hundreds of iterations of this same design. Are these hats all rampant IP theft, stealing from one another, or is this use of an iconic feature of our locale? Not to mention, the difference between the 14 & the 37 couldn’t be starker in contrast, both in the service area covered, as well as the suggestion made by choosing the 37 line. The 14 runs down Mission, from the bay all the way to the southern end of the city. From the top of Twin Peaks, (final destination of the 37) it’s Hillville the whole way down to the flats. The GX guys knew what they were doing when they chose that line/route to represent their “brand.”
I’m not going to speak on the crappy SF/GG Bridge design they clearly boosted from the “jacket of shame” that tourists are forced to purchase out of necessity upon arriving here in July, only to find out that SF is cold, grey, windy & shrouded in fog after 3PM, depending on which neighborhood they’re staying in during their visit, but even that design was put together using clip art over two decades(?) ago.
Again, not saying these cats aren’t out there boosting IP from artists, but putting a bus, or a bridge, or a cable car, (or even a crab, for crying out loud) on anything SF related doesn’t seem too far beyond the pale if you’re trying to establish some Frisco (yeah, I said it) flavor for your branding effort.
I’ll close by saying that intellectual property theft is fucked & so are violent, belligerent assholes. Show me either & I’ll break out the stationary /pen & get right on that letter of complaint to our local congress woman. Or we could always just cancel some folks by burning they shit to the ground as collective punishment.
Note: collective punishment is considered a war crime by the UN, so I’m going to wait a minute or two before I light up this torch up, so as to get my story straight for the tribunal.
ZX, I see you’ve already focused, but if you yet lurk,
facts please. Elsewise, we’re all just shit talking & swatting at mosquitos in the dark (whiiich seems pretty spot-on for SLAP lately.)
Topic: GX1000 KOOKS SPOUSAL ABUSE, RAPE, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT (Read 45032 times)