There is an ongoing campaign on the Tokyo Metro to gently encourage people to be considerate of their fellow passengers. It’s popular, often amusing, sometimes a bit prim, and not at all effective. The tag line is the innuendo laden “please do it at home”, although they often change the location as appropriate to the action. If anyone can explain to me why this activity is best carried out at the beach, I’d love to know!
As part of my art course this semester I am researching public information posters. Here’s my take on the Tokyo Metro Manners campaign. 15 points to the first person to get the rather obvious homage (click to enlarge).
Diving is my guess. Still, Diving at the beach? Not the most popular of activities I’ve seen on beaches.
I’d have said swimming – looks like crawl to me. And I guess the flailing of the arms is waht’s unacceptable on the subway!
As to the homage, well obviously da Vinci’s Last Supper. I woder if with the careful positioning of the “swimmer” you could have got the famous “V” (or was it “M”?) that Dan Brown was on about?.
I wondered about diving (I think the unacceptable activity is diving through the doors as they are closing), but it does look more like swimming and that is a better thing to be doing on the beach. The jury is still out.
15 points to Clive for correctly identifying the Last Supper. I did consider trying for the M (for Mary Magdalen apparently) but I was limited by the people available, oh, and I can’t stand Dan Brown and didn’t want to reference him