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Accidental goatse

If you don’t know what “goatse” is, don’t bother reading on.

If you do know, then be reassured: the photograph after the fold is only revolting by association. It’s an advertisement for the “Over het IJ festival”, which just happens to put some abstract design elements in a familiar configuration.

Accidental Goatse

It’s tempting to see this as a deliberate in-joke by some designer. I mean, otherwise, what are those hands doing?

(Snapped in Amsterdam Noord, just beside the Buiksloterweg ferry wharf.)

2 Comments

  1. Rik wrote:

    Oh dear how very disturbing all over again. :)

    Monday, July 16, 2007 at 2:38 pm | Permalink
  2. tikitu wrote:

    Hah, glad someone could “appreciate” it ^_^ I’m really bemused about those hands though.

    Monday, July 16, 2007 at 3:19 pm | Permalink