Always interesting when ancient Internet memes finally reach the mainstream press. Next year, lolcats... Also raises some concerns about licensing - they might not be a major artist, but someone made those images and I doubt thelondonpaper has a release or licensing agreement with the random 4channer/FARKer/SA goon who came up with the original image.

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Incredible. Geiger is one of the world's greatest living artists - wonder if this bar is built well enough to survive the centuries or if it'll get torn down in the next wave of redevelopment...

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"I personally would much prefer to be caught with my hands up this sexy camera soap dispenser than Clue’s bloody one!" Could always combine the two and have a rather effective campaign for Maxi Pads...

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All advertising is essentially superflous garbage, even the most creative image has at it's core no message other than "Buy this product". To divide advertising into pulp garbage and supposedly high art is a false dichotomy - an advert becomes a bad advert when it fails to sell product. If an advert violates the standards of taste and decency in the community in which it is shown then it will fail to sell product and thus be a bad advert.

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Perhaps it's becoming a trend because it's becoming easier to do - it's easy to find software online to take a folder of images and create a mosaic of another image from it. No skill involved. I can see this trend blowing up for a short duration then quickly becoming passe - like pop art, slogan t-shirts or blue LEDs - all trends which were innovative at their inception but, requiring little skill to replicate, died out quickly.

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What an awful painting. Looks like the kind of montage you see airbrushed onto t-shirts at the local flea market except with Heath Ledger instead of Tupac or Scarface, and minus the diamante dollar signs. I'm sure the artist will be laughing all the way to the bank, though.

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I can see places in Europe going for this (Amsterdam will probably love them), but unfortunately harm reduction - one of the few drug policies that works - is not popular in the UK and despised in the US. Putting these into public spaces will be met with howls of "but it encourages drug use" and "how will I explain this to my incredibly sheltered child?". Shame, as it's a good solution to a serious problem.

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Didn't Diesel already try this a few years back with the StyleLab division? That had higher quality materials and a more avant-garde design, but got pulled after a few seasons (apparently poor sales). Funnily enough I'm wearing a pair of StyleLab jeans now which have lasted much longer than anything else I've had from the label...

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