ARI SAAL FORMAN @ari

ari • SUCCESS BY ASSOCIATION No. 44 • TWIN POWERS CONTINUED... • If you know this series of mine then you can see this image and conclude a lot of what I see. The most important detail to this is the marketing of an iconic imperial structure, symbols of mans might, to sell a lifestyle product or a supposed necessity. • The use of the World Trade Center as a symbol of strength and success knew no end. And now in the post 9/11 reality it is still exploited as a symbol of empathy, sympathy, and agenda. I will keep it short... sort of... as this ad speaks for itself. • Back when... Philip Morris used the ultimate masculine American financial icon, cigarette like in shape, additionally masculine in it being so phallic, for nothing good. This simple use was in order to sell the feminine “light” cigarette to the macho man... and maybe even his mate. Philip Morris is just another pusher pimping the highest dream to economic lowest man to fill shareholders coffers... and our coffins. • Never forget... what they did... and do. • #911

ari • McMonday • CAFE CON RON! • McMonday is back... not better... just back, my lil HamBurglars. • The work load ain’t the same as it was pre-covid but damn if it doesn’t feel as heavy as this 10 gallon cup of low quality liquid life Ronald is holding on to. • It’s gonna take every ounce of caffeine in this giant Texas Tea cup to restart your personal economy on this Monday not so funday. So fill up that jumbo to-go java thermos and head over to your new office space on your old couch at MeWork. And through the day... if ya lose sofa steam... chug more of that McDrug like it is over the counter liquid Adoral and you are a frat boy in a dorm with finals due... or in the currently reality... rent overdue! Ughhhh. Fun Times! • 2020... Lovin’ It! 🤦‍♂️ • #ClownUniversity #GoldenFallenArches #WorkyJerky #GrandeGrande #SweetAndLowEconomy #HalfAndHalfDead • ⚡️⚡️UPDATE⚡️⚡️Instagram added a CDC link to my post for using the word “covid.” 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Bots a lot.

ari #TBT FLAME BROILED FASHION : LUNCH CRIME. BurgHer! “Excuse me, you seem to have something in your eye...” • "Have it your way," lady, but be sure to slather that eyeball bun with lots makeup mayo... because you don’t want that dry-eye sammich look. Feel free to treat yourself by slapping an extra slice of that orange curd lid cheese on your eye meat! *BUT, HOLD THE ONIONS!!!💧Yikes!” • Well... The "Bitties in the BK Lounge" were looking deliciously fashionable in the Netherlands several years back. In this modern era of eye makeup errors... this over the top BK eye job is a Whopper optical treat for the essential worker hamburger hookup scene. Deeeeliciously chic. • The Side Note: this really is smart advertising and execution from BK Netherlands 2012’ish. Beautifully done. Burger King may be a distant second in earnings to Micky D's but they are always in first place with their advertising and marketing. Daring and full of risks. BK isn't afraid to take chances, succeed or fail. McDonald's just seems to be lost without their ability to push commercials down families throats like the good ol' days. Failing upwards is McDonald's gift and curse now. New thinking is deeply needed for the clown show to find its flow... again. • #FashOnion #Eyedea #BurgHer #EyeWear #BKlounges #BunHun #HaveItHerWay #ThereIsAhairOnMyBurger

ari • ARE YOU COLORBLIND? • ☕️🍟 • I made this image to illustrate a very powerful yet simple point... • This is clearly a Starbucks right?But it also “feels” like another familiar brand. No? Maybe? • If this were real does it suggest a corporate collaboration? Would you feel your favorite latte is now better or worse? Will you get “fries with that?” Is this even a real Starbucks? Is it a Mcdonalds that serves Starbucks beans? What does this say to you if it were real?! • The successful marketing of ideas to a color or colors can be so powerful that is deafens words and twists actual facts. We no longer are sure what we see. We become bias due to color instead of the facts in front of us. But this IS a Starbucks yet we now have other thoughts about it... simply because of the colors and how those colors have been marketed to us... by corporate and community. • Many of us, if not all, see a color on something, on someone, and have an immediate opinion on it, what it is, or what it is doing, regardless of what we are actually seeing in front of us. Just like this Starbucks... the color changed its truth even though nothing changed but the color. • With that in mind... what colors do you see that evoke joy or suspicion in brands... in life.... in other PEOPLE. How have ideas and stereotypes attached to colors, like red and yellow... or black, been marketed to you by corporations, family, or friends? How many opinions and “truths” are your own... and are based on little more than bias marketing? • So many of us think we are colorblind... so much so that we are easily offended at the idea that we are influenced by color alone... by the marketing of ideas associated to colors... in ways that make us blindly judge... and jury. Knee jerk judgement often supported by generalized statistics but NEVER absolute “fact”, or even close. • The science of color, the science of consumer psychology, is war on your wallet and life... often at the expense of the life of another. Be careful of generalized color marketing and not of the individual truth. • “NEXT GUESS PLEASE!” • #ImLovinIt #VentiVenting #GangRags #WhatSetYouClaim #ColorMeBad #Colored #BlackAndWhiteMakesGreen

ari • UPDATE - SH!T STILL AIN’T FUNNY!... ...except right before the wipe. Recycle, reuse, refuse. Next up, the cross-turd puzzle. I hope the theme is politics. ❣️ • #Covidiots #WeakEndFunnies

ari the 20/20 of 2020... for me. • If someone could have told me/us what 2020 would look like... I am not sure what we could have done to prevent it, or how to prepare for it. By the time we see something coming it is often too far evolved to stop it. It is simple inertia. We can only tighten our seatbelts. And given our fractured society’s sports fan passion for bloodlust conflict in every area, I doubt even with all the early warnings, which we had plenty, anything could stop the wave just short of tsunami. And perhaps all this is a necessary evil to correct the festering blindness and thriving ignorance. 🤔🤷‍♂️ I have my thoughts on all that but that is enough... and not my real point to this post. • A year ago today I lost one of the greatest humans I have ever known. The gent in this picture. I lost him, WE lost him, a true brother, right before this new wave crashed. This man, “Micro Don” as we called him, taught me how to live again, many years back, because he was the definition of alive!cHe lived with the constant threat of death and pain, but lived like it wasn’t there. It was illogical to me. While most of us worry about the minutia we can’t control... this man lived with a true threat and lived like he had not a care in the world. Don’t yet me wrong, he was human, with problems, fears, doubts, insecurities. He had sadness too. But he ALWAYS rallied... and with style. He spread joy like it was his job. • When I was in my darkest place he showed me how to laugh and just get out and go. It wasn’t words... it was action. He was the life preserver for many and they didn’t know it. I sure knew it and am grateful. • His presence would have helped me, all that knew him, to weather the storm we are currently in, just by being here. Instead we have to do the hard work of remembering the lessons he was unintentionally teaching... • grow... be tough... work hard... play harder... be considerate... be compassionate... live with the action of empathy... spread joy to everyone as a means of personal therapy, and more. • But the lesson most important for me was... get out of your head... AND LIVE! • That is all the 20/20 I need for 2020. • #MicroDonForever #SignLanguage

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ari • HERE WE ARE • 📍 ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ • we are overdue to eat our crow, Jim. #EmpathyIsIntelligent #AccountabilityIsGenius

ari PATTERNS: A beautiful pattern illustrates the horrible pattern. • One of the most loved and hated patterns. Soothing, consistent, playful and expected to be perfect. An illustration of discipline and uniformity. Sometimes symmetrical and sometimes a disciplined pattern of random perfection. Some see joy in it, some are annoyed by it, none can avoid its presence, and that in of itself is contentious to many. • Some polka dots are worth millions and some are only valuable to one. Some represent a person and some represent a movement. *right @kwamevision ? Few patterns are more iconic and timeless regardless of trend. From dresses, to neckties, to wall paper, to fine art, to socks and shoes... polka dots are science and nature, fashion and function, they are more than just a bold pattern, they are symbolic. • SEE WHAT? What do you really see when you look at the pattern? If you look at this pattern and only see an army of black dots then you are missing that these dots are swimming in a sea of white water, surrounded by the pressure of endless mass. The dots, black or colorful, are painted on a white canvas and are expected to be perfect in their performance... and even when the canvas only need be imperfectly white. These dots must justify their existence in the space and perform perfectly. The constant pressure is on the polka dots to do their best. If one dot fails then the perfect pattern is flawed and all dots are condemned to be erased. In the polka dot pattern the pressure is solely on the dots as the canvas and all its flaws are invisible. The canvas is the broken bench mark from which all is judged that is painted upon it. It is free of judgement by its own standards. Try to be a polka dot and see how hard it is... even if you don’t like them or care to be one. • EMPATHY... illustrates emotional intelligence. You don’t have to agree or relate... to empathize. If you can passionately IMAGINE yourself in some beautiful shoes you want so badly... then it is easy to imagine yourself being forced to wear someone else’s ugly shoes they didn’t ask for and can’t take off, my Polka Dot. • “The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member,”

ari • “FAKE NEWS” IS FAKE KNEWS • Let’s do this 1970’s math problem together, my classmates. • So when we put a charcoal based filter, let’s call this “X”, on our kitchen faucet, we are filtering out all the toxic elements that run through the public pipes. Then Big Tobacco makes a “charcoal filter”, let’s also call it “X”, and places it in the tip of your cigarette stick to make you believe it too filters out the worst to leave the “best.” Then Big Tobacco gives both products in the ad racing stripes to create contemporary style and make a positive association to one another. *Let’s also call the above last element “X.” BOOM... the nonsensical equation is clear, X+X+X equals a porn like plot to seduce you to the “safe” side of smoking, you little horny devils!!! • Yes, the devil IS in the details and denial denies us the strength to see the lies in their truth. Any reason we can find, or a brand can provide, to justify doing the things that we know are physically or morally wrong, is all the rationale we need. We are now dismissive of the real facts and risks because we have been “educated” with a false truth that fits our desires or opinions. We can now claim the truth we don’t like, or is inconvenient, to be fake news. The competing brand is now defamed forever... and your brand loyalty is like a dysfunctional love. • TRICKERIE SHOPPE: All a brand, or group, has to do is claim that group consensus is always a conspiracy to fool you and that they are the lone wolf standing in a vast meadow of unaware sheep... POOF, their product, their view, their lie, is now fact even when it is fiction. If five competing brands, key word COMPETING , all come to the factual truth that oil is lighter than water, but one brand decides it costs too much to stop saying water is lighter than oil, they can simply claim the studies are false and it is a conspiracy by the other brands to destroy their brand. The brands employees, their families, their friends, and the community depending on that brand will jump on board naturally. The truth no longer matters and the culture of opinion becomes paramount. • Fake News™️ is the new porn. Triple Extra read all about it! • #Newsy #facks #📰

ari • QUARANTINE UPDATE ⚠️• Shit is getting desperate! Trying not to leave my apartment for frivolous things... Butt... • #Covidiot19 #CouponClipping #PrintIsStillPrecious #BlackAndWhiteAndBrown #AndReadAllOver #NecessiTea #ExtraExtra #SameOldNews • *yes I actually hand made it. Zoom in on the roll to see the fine print.

ari QUARANTINE COUTURE; UGLY NO MORE This is real! Playboy Magazine Nov.1985 • It’s been a quiet quarantine from me, kiddos, but some things are so apropos that my social media distancing had to be violated!!! This “gizmo” is worth that risk. • FASH-ON!!! SAFETY FIRST THIRST This real boy-in-a-bubble fumigation fashion allows you to Crip Quarantine™️ in true blue without missing a beat or a breath. Walk that walk anywhere you want with confiDense knowing your haters can’t breathe bang that virus in your aura. Like Kevlar for your lungs, this bullet proof style can thwart a full barrel from a Covid Cult 45! *GET IT? ;) This gizmo is a smart buy to prevent the bye-bye from the invisible enemy in these streets. Grab one and get out there, wave your flag flagrantly. But remember, Covid Clan in shooting endless rounds with reckless abandon and that gang doesn’t care what color you have on... anyone can get shot while haute! • SIDE NOTE: 1985 was savage, ignorant and innocent, I remember it well. I loved that year of fun and fear. That year also had a knack for seeing in to the future, both politically and environmentally. Don’t believe me? Well just take a good long look back at “1984.” 👁👁George knew. • Stay safe... citizens. I am off to find some style in my closet for the couch quarantine and make this pandemic look epic! 🕺 • #StyleOGesus #NewEraHat #SeeMePlease #HauteGirlSlumber #GiQ #ViRussellSimmons #SafetyFirstThirsty #EpicPandemic #BreathBingo