{"id":1823,"date":"2009-06-12T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/poseurs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:16:52","slug":"poseurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/poseurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Poseurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sex_pistols_auction.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sex_pistols_auction.jpg 691w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sex_pistols_auction-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>See that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_pistols\">Sex Pistols<\/a> flyer above?<\/strong> It\u2019s being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/LotFinder\/lot_details.aspx?pos=2&amp;intObjectID=5215215&amp;sid=\">auctioned by Christie\u2019s<\/a> with a starting bid of $2,000-$3,000. The thing is, though, it\u2019s totally a fake. You know how you can tell? Typeface analysis. And the <a title=\"Comic Sans...in 1978?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.typophile.com\/node\/58945\">gratuitous use of Comic Sans<\/a> isn\u2019t the only clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/d5215215l.jpg\" alt=\"Sex Pistols flyer\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update:<\/strong> Thanks for the link, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/06\/16\/1978-sex-pistols-pos.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>! Hello people of the internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that Sex Pistols flyer above? It\u2019s being auctioned by Christie\u2019s with a starting bid of $2,000-$3,000. The thing is, though, it\u2019s totally a fake. You know how you can tell? Typeface analysis. And the gratuitous use of Comic Sans isn\u2019t the only clue. Update: Thanks for the link, BoingBoing! Hello people of the internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71672,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/71672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}