Groovy…
Hempfest is this Saturday and Sunday. Here’s more info. And the big news at this year’s event: The folks behind the pot initiative that failed to make the ballot this year say they’re going to announce a new campaign to run another initiative in 2011. “We are going to put it on the ballot next year for sure,” says Douglas Hiatt, spokesman for Sensible Washington. He says the measure—somewhat controversial because the language eliminated all pot penalties from the state books with no limitations (legalizing selling, growing, distributing, etc.)—will be the “same initiative, better plan.”
(In case you’re wondering about the poster’s text (i.e., “This ones for you Jack” [sic]), “Jack” is the late Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book about the virtues of hemp that helped start the modern pot-legalization movement.)
This poster makes me want to punch hempfest in the face.
Hey Dominic, whatever happened to Hempfest getting a third day, anyway?
RIP Jack!
@1 Fuck you.
Not what you’d expect, not at all.
I was kind of hoping it would be a picture of a BC Black Bear with a guard dog “leaf” collar …
I’m getting stoned just looking at this…
Meh
People in the CD get cuffed and beaten for Jaywalking.
Middle class druggoes parade their criminality downtown and get free advertising.
Seattle Hypocrites.
@8, organize a mass jaywalking. I’d be more than happy to join in.
@2,
The city wouldn’t give them a permit.
dirty.
smelly.
hippies.
@10 all the permits were given to the Billionaires Tunnel – which is the result of the coke habits of the Powers That Be.
Dear Hempfest:
Have you considered Comic Sans?
Yours truly,
TVDinner
@13 for the Running For The Hills win.
Well, at least this year’s poster is legible. And that is more than you can say for last year.
If I recall, last year’s poster used some groovy 1970s-ish font that was completely illegible, making the poster unreadable.
There was a poster last year?
I was supposed to put in an apostrophe…and then I got high.
Speaking of which, did anyone else read the “OO” owl in “shoot” on the Bumbershoot poster as an “i”?
Why is he holding his pot-leaf watch like that? And why does it say 6:30? I thought all pot-related artifacts were required by protocol to say 4:20. Huh huh, dude, 4:20.
@19, after staring at it, first thinking it was some sort of oversized ring, I believe you’re meant to read the watch face based on the orientation of the leaf design. If one takes the middle leaf as pointing to 12, then the hands do indicate the time is what one would expect.
@19 and 20 – Thank you for clarifying that. The green thing had me mystified.
Blech. Patchouli stained and everything.
@21, I was still puzzled how someone could choose to design such a layout. An image search on the fellow’s name turned up this photo.
@20, but look at the band. Who has a watch that’s rotated on a 60 degree angle to the band? And why’s he holding it like that? Is it actually a decoder ring?
It’s phenomenal the way Hempfest has gotten so far away from even a remote connection with hippie stoners that they can ironically quote the hippie stoner art style from a completely detached postmodern distance, and nobody, but nobody, in the general public will think for a second that there is any actual hippie stoner influence in today’s mainstream Hempfest.
Bravo! A tour de force if there ever was one.
@23, mystery partly solved, I guess. In the photo his watch dial is on straight, though.
@26, all I can think is that the poster artist has no experience of wristwatches, put in the hands wrong and, instead of redoing it just applied the the leaf background to make it seem intentional. Really, I’m stumped.
Hempfest will always have a place in my heart after they kicked Dominic out for being a stupid, snarky, arrogant, hateful ass.
too many clichés and stereotypical fails in one poster/image, it is almost a visual representation of any WiS comment.
yup, decoder or pot wonder twin ring.
Cool. although looks more like a potfest poster. oh well, fuck it.
I went to Hempfest years ago, can’t remember what year, and he was featured speaker. The Kottonmouth Kings were to play after Herer. The KK fans were very rude and impatient, these fucking idiot kids were a lot like juggalos or something. They were yelling at Herer, throwing up middle fingers, gave me a pretty bad impression of Hempfest crowd and I haven’t been back since.
If that’s a made for monitor version of the poster, great. If that’s the poster then it’s made for a monitor and is going to look like shit printed.
let’s hope they don’t fuck it up so completely next year
bunch of morons ran that shit and nobody heard about it
Wonder what ever happened to my black light?