Comments on: Urban Outfitters' fake NYC block http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 15:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829700 jphilby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829700 "reminiscent of independent businesses." Cool!! I guess that means they'll be willing to take payment in chickens, then!! “reminiscent of independent businesses.”

Cool!! I guess that means they’ll be willing to take payment in chickens, then!!

]]> By: haypenny http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-830212 haypenny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-830212 How long before Urban Outfitters sue themselves for use of the logo and for devaluing the Urban Outfitters? How long before Urban Outfitters sue themselves for use of the logo and for devaluing the Urban Outfitters?

]]> By: nickodemus http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829456 nickodemus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829456 It's just... a wasted space. But as long as they pay the rent/let hobos sleep inside, I'm fine with it. It’s just… a wasted space. But as long as they pay the rent/let hobos sleep inside, I’m fine with it.

]]> By: kevinsky http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829465 kevinsky Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829465 Nice! Big corporation disguised as the kind of small businesses that gets crushed by big corporations. What's a Bodega? I don't think we have those in Canada. Nice! Big corporation disguised as the kind of small businesses that gets crushed by big corporations.

What’s a Bodega? I don’t think we have those in Canada.

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829472 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829472 I've seen "boda-gas" at play in the Gulf of St Lawrence: BODAcious beluGAS, that is. I’ve seen “boda-gas” at play in the Gulf of St Lawrence: BODAcious beluGAS, that is.

]]> By: brassandlace http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829485 brassandlace Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829485 I'd be surprised if they get much walk in business with a store front like that. It's a little tough to focus on the "Urban Outfiters" logo with everything else cluttering the windows. Can you even see inside to tell what they sell if you didn't already know? Dare I say it? Christ, what an eyesore. I’d be surprised if they get much walk in business with a store front like that. It’s a little tough to focus on the “Urban Outfiters” logo with everything else cluttering the windows. Can you even see inside to tell what they sell if you didn’t already know?

Dare I say it? Christ, what an eyesore.

]]> By: SkullHyphy http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829493 SkullHyphy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829493 Do they serve Chimay in the simulacrum? Do they serve Chimay in the simulacrum?

]]> By: a_user http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829755 a_user Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829755 For anyone not from New York area a bodega means a 24 hour shop like a service station with out the pumps. Sloppy journalism is bad. For anyone not from New York area a bodega means a 24 hour shop like a service station with out the pumps.

Sloppy journalism is bad.

]]> By: jacques45 http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829762 jacques45 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829762 "You can get this stuff at little corner stores called 'bodegas.' Say it with me, Bo-De-Gas." I guess it wouldn't have hipster cred if it didn't use irony to mean crap that wasn't popular even when it was original, like 70s cereal print t-shirts. “You can get this stuff at little corner stores called ‘bodegas.’ Say it with me, Bo-De-Gas.”

I guess it wouldn’t have hipster cred if it didn’t use irony to mean crap that wasn’t popular even when it was original, like 70s cereal print t-shirts.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829516 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829516 This already exists in Boston: way to rip off yet another idea, urban outfitters! Link: http://www.bdgastore.com/ This already exists in Boston: way to rip off yet another idea, urban outfitters!

Link: http://www.bdgastore.com/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-841039 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-841039 I don't think Dogfish Head Brewery will be too happy about UO using their logo outside the "Bodega.". Probably unauthorized use of the DFH trademark... I don’t think Dogfish Head Brewery will be too happy about UO using their logo outside the “Bodega.”. Probably unauthorized use of the DFH trademark…

]]> By: sdmikev http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829533 sdmikev Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829533 Only Tom Friedman is allowed to have three hands: http://www.alternet.org/media/48941 Only Tom Friedman is allowed to have three hands:

http://www.alternet.org/media/48941

]]> By: Ambiguity http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829790 Ambiguity Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829790 <blockquote>Our neighborhood is one of the few in Manhattan that still has REAL bodegas, hardware stores, and shoe menders. </blockquote> Sadly, not for long.

Our neighborhood is one of the few in Manhattan that still has REAL bodegas, hardware stores, and shoe menders.

Sadly, not for long.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-830057 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-830057 This "ironic" stance is really getting unbearable. Now, you can be sloppy, lazy, self-centred, arrogant...it's still ok, you just need to say you are "ironic". Who cares that below this post-modernist veneer, you just find good ol' apathy, greed, conformity, carelessness, egoism ? This “ironic” stance is really getting unbearable. Now, you can be sloppy, lazy, self-centred, arrogant…it’s still ok, you just need to say you are “ironic”. Who cares that below this post-modernist veneer, you just find good ol’ apathy, greed, conformity, carelessness, egoism ?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-830071 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-830071 What's all the crying about? As a native NYer, I've seen the city over decades become an ironic, still-born version of its former self. We deserve Urban Outfitters. What’s all the crying about? As a native NYer, I’ve seen the city over decades become an ironic, still-born version of its former self. We deserve Urban Outfitters.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829579 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829579 i like your desciption of the world in one short statement i like your desciption of the world in one short statement

]]> By: Sproogle http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829580 Sproogle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829580 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Bodega http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Bodega

]]> By: das memsen http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829590 das memsen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829590 fuck these guys. hopefully, new yorkers will tell them to fuck of simply by not entering, and letting the place go belly up. sadly, this probably won't happen. oh well, that's why i live in queens. manhattan is as relevant as friendster! fuck these guys. hopefully, new yorkers will tell them to fuck of simply by not entering, and letting the place go belly up. sadly, this probably won’t happen. oh well, that’s why i live in queens. manhattan is as relevant as friendster!

]]> By: das memsen http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829594 das memsen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829594 uh, that's "fuck OFF." uh, that’s “fuck OFF.”

]]> By: seyo http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829353 seyo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829353 This atrocity is going in on my block. I'm disgusted. If they had done this in midtown, near Times Square or 34th street, it would make sense. But on the upper west side? Our neighborhood is one of the few in Manhattan that still has REAL bodegas, hardware stores, and shoe menders. The fact that they are building this Epcott Center-esque monstrosity there makes no fucking sense. Well, other than the fact that Columbia University is only 10 blocks away, chock full of vapid kids with plenty of mommy and daddy's money to spend on this garbage. Get off my damn lawn! I'm fucking serious! Leave! This atrocity is going in on my block. I’m disgusted. If they had done this in midtown, near Times Square or 34th street, it would make sense. But on the upper west side? Our neighborhood is one of the few in Manhattan that still has REAL bodegas, hardware stores, and shoe menders. The fact that they are building this Epcott Center-esque monstrosity there makes no fucking sense. Well, other than the fact that Columbia University is only 10 blocks away, chock full of vapid kids with plenty of mommy and daddy’s money to spend on this garbage. Get off my damn lawn! I’m fucking serious! Leave!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829356 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829356 Mehhhh. Looks quite like an adaption of the Street Market store front installation thing that was a collaborative piece between Twist, REAS and ESPO a few years back. Mehhhh. Looks quite like an adaption of the Street Market store front installation thing that was a collaborative piece between Twist, REAS and ESPO a few years back.

]]> By: JohnCJ http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829359 JohnCJ Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829359 Wow, that's kind of like BP sculpting Louisiana Coastline out of petroleum sludge. Wow, that’s kind of like BP sculpting Louisiana Coastline out of petroleum sludge.

]]> By: Dewi Morgan http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-830383 Dewi Morgan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-830383 Ah, "bodega" = "corner shop". I'm guessing this pic is a mockup. I doubt they'll be having the "Get caught with a hooker" sign in their actual pseudostore. Ah, “bodega” = “corner shop”.

I’m guessing this pic is a mockup. I doubt they’ll be having the “Get caught with a hooker” sign in their actual pseudostore.

]]> By: Avram / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829363 Avram / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829363 "As they once were"? That photo is a dead ringer for the corner 30 feet from where I'm sitting right now. “As they once were”? That photo is a dead ringer for the corner 30 feet from where I’m sitting right now.

]]> By: Xenu http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829373 Xenu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829373 You should double check the stores, they might be selling ironic belts and lunchboxes with 80's cartoon lunchboxes. You should double check the stores, they might be selling ironic belts and lunchboxes with 80′s cartoon lunchboxes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829894 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829894 Urban Outfitters, making an ironic statement? NO WAY Urban Outfitters, making an ironic statement? NO WAY

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829387 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829387 I live in Brooklyn, and we have "hardware store[s], bodega[s], and bar[s]" where I live. Lots of them, actually. Google maps will show you lots, I am sure. I live in Brooklyn, and we have “hardware store[s], bodega[s], and bar[s]” where I live. Lots of them, actually. Google maps will show you lots, I am sure.

]]> By: Nash Rambler http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-830155 Nash Rambler Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-830155 Let's see, add some graffiti, a couple hundred cigarette butts, and liberally dash with bum pee and no one will be able to tell the difference! Let’s see, add some graffiti, a couple hundred cigarette butts, and liberally dash with bum pee and no one will be able to tell the difference!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829393 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829393 Chimay and Dogfish Head breweries sharing space with Coors Light ... now that's just an offense against mankind, irony be damned. Chimay and Dogfish Head breweries sharing space with Coors Light … now that’s just an offense against mankind, irony be damned.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/urban-outfitters-fak.html#comment-829398 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829398 camouflage camouflage

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