17th April 2011

Photo reblogged from The Daily What with 359 notes

thedailywhat: Whoopsie Daisy of the Day: The United States Postal Service accidentally used the Statue of Liberty replica in Las Vegas as the face of its latest commemorative stamp instead of, you know, the actual Statue of Liberty. The embarrassing oversight was discovered by an eagle-eyed stamp collector who noticed a patch on the statue’s center spike — a feature that is unique to the replica. “We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway,” USPS spokesman Roy Betts told The New York Times, adding that the error was indeed regrettable, and the post office is “re-examining our processes to prevent this situation from happening in the future.” There is something to be said about the government being okay with replacing an iconic symbol of the American Dream with a cheap knockoff, but I won’t be the one to say it. [nyt.] Hyperrealism: more real than real.

thedailywhat:

Whoopsie Daisy of the Day: The United States Postal Service accidentally used the Statue of Liberty replica in Las Vegas as the face of its latest commemorative stamp instead of, you know, the actual Statue of Liberty.

The embarrassing oversight was discovered by an eagle-eyed stamp collector who noticed a patch on the statue’s center spike — a feature that is unique to the replica.

“We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway,” USPS spokesman Roy Betts told The New York Times, adding that the error was indeed regrettable, and the post office is “re-examining our processes to prevent this situation from happening in the future.”

There is something to be said about the government being okay with replacing an iconic symbol of the American Dream with a cheap knockoff, but I won’t be the one to say it.

[nyt.]

Hyperrealism: more real than real.

Tagged: Statue of LibertyHyperrealismBaudrillard

Source: thedailywhat

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