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lol @ tracing
lol @ tracing for both posters. Well… not tracing. Both are near duplicates of a very well-known (and much better) 1925 poster from the USSR.
Yes… I know Franz’s is an album cover
Total brain fart on my part.
As much as I despise Franz Ferdinand, this was an obvious culture reference/homage, not a “totally looks like.” If anything, it only proves how derivative and devoid of original creativity Franz Ferdinand is.
Humbug. Now get off my lawn.
uh, i believe the album cover was created before the poster.
*ducks to avoid flying shoes*
As much as I despise Socialism, this was an obvious culture
reference/homage, not a “totally looks like.” If anything, it only proves how
derivative and devoid of original creativity Socialism is.
I see your point.
What, and Capitalism is all creative? It found the two things that sell to the lowest common denominator–sex and violence–and it uses them over and over. And over and over and over. And over.
I would say at the very minimum Capitalism inspires and rewards creativity. Where socialism inspires and rewards lazyness and ignorance. Just look at that wildly successful cuba. Last year castro handed out woks to everyone WOW!!.
socialism inspires lazyness and ignorance?? boy, you sure do have your facts straight.
Sounds pretty accurate to me….look at socialisms history…
Capitalism does not equally socialism.
Ooops my bad. Yeah that’s what i meant.
Because “become homeless and starving to pay for your flu medicine” is really rewarding and inspiring.
Haha, the flu is a virus; there is no medicine. There is only a vaccine that hardly works. Socialist education FTL!
You’ve never heard of retrovirals? We’ve got Tamiflu. There is medicine for viruses.
Talk about education FTL.
YOUR DOING IT WRONG! FTL is FTL, it’s FTW FTW. LOLZ.
Retroviral, adj., Of or pertaining to a retrovirus.
You mean antiretrovirals.
And Tamiflu is not an antiretroviral. Lucky that, because swine flu is not a retrovirus.
Science education FTW.
Omg, this is so relevant!
haha – you win
Yes, the economic downfall of the US banking system was really creative. No ignorance to be found and selling people houses that they can’t afford is rewarding indeed.
Point is that every political system has flaws, and not paying attention to those flaws is going to make a political system fail.
May I ask who pout the embargo that’s been making Cuba stay in the 50s?
LOL this is the truth
Oops…’fraid not…the Franz Ferdinand album cover was copied from this poster…cultural ref I believe.
Yes, when something is SUPPOSED to look like something else, it shouldn’t be here. Lame. It’s like criticizing the cover of “The Da Vinci Code” for looking like the Mona Lisa.
Exactly.
Exactly. For the love of god, why do these things keep making the main page?
It’s our fault for voting them in. Just vote them down next time, then they won’t make the site at all.
But why should it be critisising? Why shouldn’t it be here simply because it *does* look like the other, even if intentional? Who says it has to be a crit?
Yea, but it’s not coincidental — and that makes it far less interesting.
LOL…best post ive seen in a while! God I hate LOLcat speak. Or whatever those idiots call it.
so why come onto the site then?
…LOL.
Sounds like some has a case of the “sposdas”!
oh yeah you’re *so* right. they’re so devoid of creativity to use something that most people probably didn’t know about until they looked it up. i’d actually say good on them for doing something different.
Get off my lawn? No offense, but that gave me a giggle and made my day.
The album came out in 2006. The poster says 2009.
Thankyou, for being able to read unlike the rest of these losers.
The album art most definitely came out before the poster on the left. I’d say, if anything, it shows how devoid of creativity the Belgian Socialist Party is. In the top left, it clearly states “Mei 2009 l 14u00″ which means May 2009 l 14 o’clock (2:00 PM) whereas the album “You Could Have it so Much Better,” shown on the right, came out 4 years earlier in 2005.
Next time, don’t let personal music preference make you appear to be an ass hat.
But for all you know the picture from the Belgian Solcialist Party used to be a poster the party used before 2005 and is being reused as a design people can recognize.
you fail..
OMG? anyone pay attention in history class. does… Archduke, Franz Ferdinand of Austria ring a bell to anyone? the guy who was assassinated at Bosnian?
see theres a reason for the bands name, and theres a reason why their poster is so similar…
(yes i know im posting this comment for the 2nd time.. cause its at the top and maybe ppl are more likely to read it lol)
Actually, Franz Ferdinand was named after a racehorse named “The Archduke.” That racehorse was named for the historical Franz Ferdinand.
I wonder if this was done on purpose… HMMMM
It’s a poster for a music event ofcourse the reference is obvious
It’s Rodchenko, you ass
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/rodchenko.jpg
thank god everyone isn’t an idiot. Good job hugo
Took this post THAT LONG to figure it out?
Thank you, Hugo. You give me hope for internet-man kind
Thank god. I’m so glad I am not the only one who thinks this continued posting of things that are SUPPOSED TO look like something else as a totally looks like is lame.
I’m also pathetically grateful I’m not the only one who recognizes Rodchenko. Thanks, hugo.
I hate belgians now!! They have to pay Franz Ferdinand few dollars!1
>: (
Yeah, and they stole our language! (I’m from The Netherlands)
Actually, we kind of shared the language since way back in the 14th century before the current borders even existed, when Belgium was part of Holland
And you’re forgetting that they also speak French and even German in Belgium
And yes, I’m Dutch too
And wafflish and beerinese.
Yeah, I know they also speak French and German.
you forgot the book-cover that’s in russian. and the book cover that’s in english.
Oh my god.
Really?
REALLY?
Try the original poster from 1924.
It doesn’t look a like. It’s the same.
Wow, another submission with images that look exactly the same. Get the hell over it…I mean, I wish they wouldn’t submit stuff like this either, but there’s not much you can do if it’s already on the page.
Aren’t you forgetting something? Sufficient people must have voted for it to appear on front page. They don’t all get here.
I’m sorry, I mean I’m pretty sure your point is that one is purposefully derived from the other, but your wording…
“…another submission that looks exactly the same…”
I should hope on a site called “Totally Looks Like” that the submissions ARE of things that look the same (preferably accidentally).
It surely is the other way round, and it was surely made on purpose. Not funny.
did they merge this place with FAIL blog or something?
*sigh* what’s next? “Batman Symbol totally looks like bat”
Hah!
This is an incredibly feeble look alike. It’s actually from yet another piece that was appropriated and used by both FF and the anarchist collective and as such is pretty pointless. IF the art had been transmogrified it in a way that was funny or inappropriate (case in point: Nazi brownshirt poster basically made into American cowboy/meat poster by hasty designer) I would be with you, but we live in a world of stock photos and clip art.
Do you even know what transmogrify means? It has a grotesque connotation. Like if a beautiful women “transmogrified” into a giant hideous insect. Make sure you understand the meaning of obfuscatious words before vomitting your opinion onto the forums.
Welcome to another demonstration of “Stock Photography”
As you can see, anyone can purchase royalty free images, and fling them everywhere!
I believe Rodchenko did it first. And therefore even if the Socialists did use it, it wouldn’t be considered stealing because we’re all comrades.
Look at the date on the poster, vs the date of the album release. You’re backwards.
The cover of Franz Ferdinand album is supposed to be a copy of that poster. I think some of you just need to look up who Franz Ferdinand was or atleast finish High School.
I think maybe you should check that poster again. 2009?
Pretty sure the original looked a bit different.
Maybe you should “atleast” look up what you’re talking about.
Perhaps the idea, but the actual image (homage image!) is the same with the poster and the cd cover and different from that original.
Perhaps you should have just outright ripped off the original.
PWNED
ZOMG, lower case D totally looks like backwards lower case B
d b
SEE! =D
Best post of the thread lol
Just like armskaap and hugo and Momoi said, BOTH the Franz Ferdinand cover and the Belgian poster are based on the Rodchenko poster (although why they both use the same stock photo girl I have no idea…)
The girl in the photograph is, apparently, the former girlfriend of the guy who first managed and promoted Franz Ferdinand years and years ago. But don’t take my word for it!
Oh, why is that?
Is it because you’re painfully WRONG?
I said apparently. Do calm down.
The album cover existed first, but it was a nod to Aleksandr Rodchenko’s poster design from 1924. Franz Ferdinand’s album art was designed by Matthew Cooper, and the poster above used his design (whether or not it was with his permission, I guess we’ll never know).
YOU GO GIRL~
The girl on the album cover is a former Norwegian Idol finalist, her name is Margaret Berger.
These two R similiar, too similiar, besides what the chic is “saying” it’s the EXACT same picture.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
What is the origional thing saying? Like the “nodded to” thing?
OMGWTF?!!1!1one
Something BASED ON something else Totally Looks Like it! OMG!!
i think its meant 2 look like it
CAPTION FAIL!
this event was held by the anarchistic kollective of ghent. No political party at all. And these are the guys that hate the belgian socialist party for losing their ideals to populism falling back to being just another belgian centre party
didnt see your comment b4 i posted thank you for recagnising this
Lol, those weirdo’s make it to TLL. There’s like TEN members in that party (no kidding. ten).
yeah, the poster is copied from the album cover… and good grief, you ppl love seeing yourself type.
Google ‘Rodchenko’ and all will be revealed…
or use lmgtfy.com
May Day is the International Day of the Worker, so its not an Anarchist holiday, but definately celebrated most by the Left Wing Communities, which includes Socialists and Communists too.
Oh, it’s one of *those* “looks like”. Sigh. Why do people still not get it?
The girl used is probably from a stock art to be used by anyone. And, the girl gives the idea of shouting, so it’s perfect for those words to be like that. Therefore, making the album art and the poster, well, look a like.
That is the only post that makes sense.
And here I was thinking the site was called totallylooksdifferent.com
They look the same because they ARE the same
Franz Ferdinantstole thisposter himself from a Russian communist propaganda poster.
Plus: this is not a poster from a Belgian socialist party. It’s a call out for an anti-capitalist 1st of may demo by anarchists, autonomous and other rebelious types.
their both a rip of a photography by rodchenko
They probably look alike BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SAME PICTURE. Failure.
hmm… where do you think that band got their cover from??
Hmm..Makes ya wonder if they’re related
YOUR AN IDIOT
THEY MADE IT THE SAME ON PURPOSE
No your all wrong Franz Ferdinand created socialism.
and the poster is an homage to the album.
Marx is a total fan.
Don’t hate Belgium, we have the best beer, waffles and fries in the world ^^ you are allowed to hate Ghent though.. Antwerp is much better
And I love Holland, but we never “stole” your language.. But if you want it “back” okay then! Well, I guess it’s true what they say: People from Belgium are dumb and people from Holland are cheap 
gij ongeloofelijke Antwerpse calle.
De meeste nuttelose reply ooit die volledig naast de kwestie is. Je zou nog geen sarcasme herkennen moest de schelde ervan overlopen.
Het cliché is dus toch waar: Antwerpenaars zijn dom en arrogant. Ma komaan, wat voor een reply schrijft gij ook.
Conclusie: Wij kakken in de Schelde en het komt allemaal bij jullie uit. Enjoy
The truth is neither one of them is original… duh?
clearly intentional and not a look alike
its supposed to look like it..thats the joke. fail
This is definitely on purpose.
People, it’s called stock photography. It is in fact the same photo. People buy the copyright to use it for whatever, it’s not taken for a specific purpose.
Blimey, People – does no-one here know anything about design?!?
The Album cover was *famously* based on Alexander Rodchenko’s 1924 portrait of Lilya Brik (try a search on google images for a picture). He was one of the founders of the constructivism – an art movement whose style that both the designs here allude to.
The 1924 original is a design classic so the homage, in both cases, was intentional and to the original work by Rodchenko.
you guys are retarded…they chose that album cover for a reason…franz ferdinand usually uses their covers as a form of sociological expression
Well, duh; that was the point of the album cover…
Franz ferdinand’s album cover was meant as an homage to Rodchenko’s posters. If you look at a lot of their videos you can see that they’re into a lot of Russian-Avant-Garde stuff.
And it’s so obvious that those who think socialism is the worst thing that could ever happen to a country are Americans.
Oh, and before you go ape, I’m an American.
I think Franz Ferdinand based a lot on the work of a Russian designer named http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodchenko
idiots. Franz Ferdinand was a REAL PERSON during WWII and he WAS communist. the band is named after him and they probably made this poster in full awareness of the look-a-like.
Are you joking or what? He was killed in 1914 sparking WWI D:
Sorry if you are being sarcastic.
Idiot… they just took the propoganda and copied it
actually this poster has been a socialist post for years in Europe.
Cuba is not Socialist as defined by Marx. It is Leninist and is authoritarian because of Lenin’s misinterpretation of Marx’s and Engels’ words “dictatorship of the Proletariat”, which means the Working class (who happens to be the majority) get democratic control over the socio-economy, in stead of being in the hands of the bourgeois (which are those who own the means of production, about 1% of the US).
I dont see why socialism would ruin our “creativity”, Ive been to Cuba and the people there are very artistic, they have one of the best Jazz scenes in the world i think. Also you should see how skilled and innovative the people are. The keep cars from the 50s running like they are brand new and I’ve never met such a hard working Agricultural population, of coarse they have to be because of all the trade embargo’s against them.
I really dont think anyone on this site understands what Socialism or Capitalism is as defined by Marx and Adam Smith. I strongly suggest you learn about both.
Really, it the same, words changed, freakin original!
It’s supposed to look like it.
Its actualy a famous pop art piece by an artist called rodchenko. do some research.
“Its actualy a famous pop art piece by an artist called rodchenko. do some research.”
Constructivist, not pop art. Do some research.
duh i think thats the point you idiot
no offence
Yet another fail
Yes they The Franz Ferdinand was made before the poster. This is the “You Could Have It So Much Better” Album it came out in 2005:) I have every album of theirs:)
Ummm…. Franz was first hun.
OMG? anyone pay attention in history class. does… Archduke, Franz Ferdinand of Austria ring a bell to anyone? the guy who was assassinated at Bosnian?
see theres a reason for the bands name, and theres a reason why their poster is so similar…
U mean assasinated in sarajevo, which is in bosnia? Socialist education FTW
That girl is a friend from the band Franz Ferdinand.
Hate to be the one that breaks up this party, but both the poster and the album cover are based on a 1924 poster of Lilya Brik, the Russian avant-guarde artist and poet. So really, the capitalists (Franz Ferdinand) were appropriating socialist imagery, not the other way round :-p
The whole point of the album cover is to look like this belgian socialist party poster…
…its just a reference to that poster, it was the POINT of the album cover looking the SAME!…Any idiot can tell you that.
Pirate partien~
Eugene V. Debs…. Why doesnt everybody here just read his wikiquote
Considering he was probably one of the most legit Americans to ever run for president.
“Where there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
???
Whats next, this girl totally looks like her twin sister!!!! OMG!!!!!
oh. And remember people,sarcasm is the answer to everything.
ITs because Franz Ferdinand was the arch duke whose assination practically started the first world war. Any many associate the star of socialism with germans during world war one. (Propaganda said they were “reds” or communists/socialsts)
Russian constructivist artist Alexander Rodchenko, whose style still impacts on modern graphic design, made this propaganda poster depicting the shouting woman in 1924: http://pics.livejournal.com/miclick/pic/00035cfc/s640x480
Clearely, Franz Ferdinand were quoting such artwork.
The woman is shouting: “КНИГИ”, which means “books”. That is what most people here should read more.