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The Commodification of Hawkmadinejad
UPDATE 10:03 PM: Fear not, commenters once fearful that our hero had up and left us forever. Tipster (and upcoming Senior Wisdom profile) Nat Gale has just spotted Hawkmadinejad and snapped a photo that we're pretty sure Dining won't be postering around John Jay.

Astute and protective tipster Jon Hill informed Bwog that he had noticed a poster outside the entrance to John Jay Dining Hall that features the likeness of campus hero and bird-about-town Hawkmadinejad.

It seems that Dining Services has taken tipster-generated photographs of our hero from the Hawkmadineblog and has reproduced them to advertise dining plans. Though why Dining thinks that particularly bloody photos of a hawk devouring a squirrel on a grassy knoll will convince students to sign up for a meal plan is beyond us.

While the bottom-most Hawkmadinejad on the poster does have a speech bubble that reads "Have You Seen My Blog?", Dining Services doesn't credit the photographs as the masterpieces of photographer/French Department administrator Isabelle Chagnon.



Posted by "Where's...: #1 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 6:49 PM
"Where's Hawkmadinejad?"

"I’ve got a gut feeling Hawkmadinejad's around here somewhere. After all, isn’t there a little of Hawkmadinejad in all of us? In fact, you might even say we just ate Hawkmadinejad and he’s in our stomachs right now!…No, wait, scratch that last one."
Posted by ahhh: #2 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 7:00 PM (from campus)
haha that is fucked up, as if john jay wasn't unappetizing enough they advertise with dead rats. i hope the tour groups like that one
Posted by aww: #3 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 7:10 PM (from campus)
HALE naw.

No one uses Hawkmadinejad.
Posted by Where is he?: #4 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM (from campus)
Let's face it, he hasn't been seen in a while -- may have moved on to greener pastures...
Posted by jon hill: #5 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 7:49 PM (from campus)
is my favorite bwog tipster
Posted by untrue: #6 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 8:12 PM (from campus)
i had two friends see him right before the varsity show on sunday afternoon. he lives!!! rabble rouser!

Posted by alexw: #7 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 8:24 PM (from campus)
Austin Mitchell saw him during the KCST spring show.
Posted by ...: #8 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 8:43 PM (from campus)
i actually think this is pretty cool. i guess they could have done a better job at crediting the source, but that said, at least they did to some degree. (or at least threw a hint in there, which quite frankly, is likely to draw more attention to the source than a straight name credit ever would...)

somebody in their department is actually having a little fun. it's cool. (especially considering the ultrablandness one normally sees out of big bureaucracies)
Posted by jeets: #9 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 10:49 PM (from campus)
saw him in riverside park around 108th this weekend...
Posted by they: #10 · reply · track
May 5, 2008 at 11:56 PM (from campus)
actually do something funny like this every year...last year they made fun of the matthew fox thing
Posted by this: #11 · reply · track
May 6, 2008 at 12:41 AM (from campus)
poster is telling us to eat squirrels and rats, not buy meal plans
Posted by Bwog: #12 · reply · track
May 6, 2008 at 1:04 AM (from campus)
Oh, hush. Blogs use copyrighted images all the time without crediting them. And I've got to hand it to housing & dining: this is pretty clever.
Posted by Well,: #13 (in reply to #11) · reply · track
May 6, 2008 at 6:08 PM (from campus)
He does get those rats from John Jay Dining Hall...
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