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A More Sympathetic Subway
August 10, 2011
Woody Allen once said, “You should be thankful that you are miserable because you are very lucky to be miserable.” Allen, or at least, Alvy Singer sees New York as the truest reflection of the human condition, the most fitting environment in which we may confront the sh*tstorm. So, it follows, through somewhat lax logic, that it is best (or, however delusional, heroic) to be miserably living in New York.
If you aren’t particularly cheered by that argument, then these subway pick-me-ups are for you! Street collective TrustoCorp pasted a series of messages over subway stops throughout the city. The sweet nothings (“You look lovely”) were written in Helvetica (the official font of the MTA) while color coded confidence boosters (“Keep it up”) and ironic scrawl (“Lol”) emulate the familiar train line circles. Click through for the funnies!
[via My Modern Metropolis]
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