We were behind this truck recently at a stop light.* The entire time, we were thinking: 1) the driver attends UNC; 2) she drives a Ford truck; 3) she is a Christian; 4) she is from Minnesota (license plate cropped out of photo); 5) she must be a good driver because the truck has no sign of a bump or scratch- no easy task in a college town. That yellow lettering stuck with us for a while: Are you following JESUS this close? We even found ourselves talking to the bumper sticker, "wait..... we're not that close to your truck." Later that day, back in town on Battleground Avenue, we saw a Volvo with a vanity plate advertising a local community: OAKRIDGE.
The back of a vehicle makes a very effective place to advertise/proselytize. What does the back of your vehicle say about you? You know people are watching! Since we photograph something related to religion every Sunday, this bumper sticker is having an even greater impact than the truck-driving, Carolina gal (from Minnesota) ever imagined.
Summer is a fun time to look for bumperstickers and vanity tags, especially if you are on vacation and have restless children in the car.
* (OK, we cheated a little and slipped out of Guilford County for an afternoon).
I am going to email you a picture of my HHR window from a couple years ago. I often see people taking photos of it or kids who play internet game enjoying of it but this was the most geeky dust message ever! I apparently rolled a "+5" for window awesome!
These are people from a game called KOL Kingdom of Loathing. It is fun and snarky mocking every walk of life and quoting pop culture in a too close to home way that makes it very interactive. The things you cannot see in this photo are the license plate and Rat Fink sticker,also icons of the So Cal Kustom Kulture lifestyle.
MY plate id " fink U " .
I never really have tailgaters,just fans.
Once I was driving to Comic Con and transporting Zombie Girl in the passenger seat,someone took a picture,not unusual. Then weeks later that person told someone they knew who published a Zombie novel in AZ about the car they saw and it turned out to be a guy I used to work with !They didn't believe him that he knew me and I emailed him a picture at work and told them yes it was just a small zombie filled world!
Posted by: Janis of So Cal | Sunday, July 08, 2012 at 04:36 PM