Computer Writing and Research Lab | University of Texas at Austin

Gimme the Mermaid

I just stumbled across a bizarre little video entitled Gimme the Mermaid. It involves a mermaid, a seriously aggressive lawyer, and human figures with cat heads. If you're doing Lessig, like visual rhetoric, and want an ambitious paper prompt, you could ask students to do a rhetorical analysis of it. It's so delightfully bizarre ... it's just begging for explication.

I should also add that it was featured on illegal-art.org.