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With love,
Team SuperForest
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Hey SuperForesters!
As a kid, all I knew of John Lennon was his Beatles songs, his round spectacles and that he met a gal named Yoko who caused the successful band to disband (I now know better). And ever since I watched this, I’ve been fascinated with him and his efforts of creating an ad campaign for peace. He also loved to draw. Check out this portrait he did of his family (below). I find it very sweet the way he and Yoko are portrayed as having one body. 
John once said:
The simplest way of saying what Yoko is to me, and what I am to her, is that before we met, we were half a person, you know. There is no myth about people being half and the other half being in the sky or in heaven or something, or the other side of the universe, or the mirror image bit. But, er, we are two halves and together we are a whole.”
And a tweet from Yoko:
Oh, and finally, here’s a little push for those who have been putting off letting someone know how they feel.
Good Day, SuperForest!
This past Tuesday (Dec. 8th) marked the 29th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination and I just learned that as a tribute to her late husband, Yoko Ono and “Imagine Peace” have continued the poster campaign they began in 1968 by crowdsourcing translations of the iconic “War is Over (If You Want it)” text.
To date, they have collected translations in over 47 languages (!!!) and you can flip through the flickr set, here.
So the current tally says Team John and Yoko is ahead of Team SuperForest and its Humanifesto translations by 27 languages. What do you think? We can totally catch up, right? (hehehe)
Love to all.
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Good Morning SuperForest,
Jackson here.
I owe you all an apology. Yesterday I posted the “War is Over (Via NASCAR & Coors Light!)” post as if I had found it online and was simply passing it along, where in fact I created it myself, and put it up as if it were real.
This is why…
For me, there is nothing more exciting and amazing than the transmission of ideas. Ideas are our main currency here at SF, and we try to find the best, brightest, shiniest ideas and pass them along to you, so that you can form your own ideas, and we can all grow together.
Yesterday I made a mis-step. I was not thinking that many would think that the ad was real. I incorrectly assumed that people knew about John & Yoko’s worldwide campaign for Peace, which is what the whole thing was based on.
Here’s the story: In December of 1969, John and Yoko purchased ad space on billboards in more than eleven cities worldwide. The cities included New York, Tokyo, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, London and Toronto. The billboards simply read: “War is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from John & Yoko.”
I look to John Lennon a great deal for inspiration and guidance, and in reflecting on his ethos of Peace branding I thought: “Well, it’s fine and good for a bearded, anti-establishment hippie to buy ads for Peace and promote it. But how powerful would it be if major corporations also took a stand for Peace?” And why wouldn’t they?
Then I thought how fun it would be to subvert the whole “Red state/Blue state, Us/Them” mentality by having the ads come from companies that one would assume to be “Pro-war.”
Now, I have no idea what Coors Light and NASCAR think about war and Peace. (Hopefully they are interested in Peace because it makes sound economic sense.) I chose them because in my mind they served as good examples of “Red state corporations.”
The very idea of “Red and Blue corporations” is too big to get into in this post.
The issue here is that I should have presented my idea in the context of: “Wouldn’t it be amazing if this happened? Wouldn’t this be extraordinary to see?” Instead, I succumbed to my impish desire to prank and provoke. (And I forgot that most of our lovely readers we probably born after 1969.)
This is a matter of trust. When you read something on SuperForest, I want you to know that it can be trusted, that WE can be trusted.
What I find wonderful about SuperForest is our transparency, meaning that what we do and what we say are in line. We have no need to hide in the shadows, we can dance in the sun.
Love to All,
-Jackson
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Wow!
Seems we can all just get along.
It’s great to see companies like this shaking off the whole “Red state/Blue state” nonsense.
After all, more Peace = more beer drinkers and NASCAR viewers, and that’s a big plus.
Sweet.
A huge SuperForesty “Congratulations!” to NASCAR and Coors Light for promoting Peace.
Love to All,
Team SuperForest
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