Adverts Subverted
Skateboarders spread this visual sampling way back in the late ’80s. The fad spread among ravers, hip-hop kids and media-addicted suburban youth. At The Alley, a counterculture boutique in Chicago, one of the popular summer T shirts sports a familiar orange cereal box with a boy pouring marijuana leaves into a bowl of “Weedies.” Not amused by satirical infringement on its trademark, Ford issued a cease-and-desist order last year to a line of clothing called Fuct that swiped Ford’s familiar blue-and-white oval....