Random things to abhor – Bank calendars
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Free calendars issued by banks represent the quintessence of human taedium. In the past though I remember banks were making an effort, using famous paintings to decorate the dull pages of their calendars. They managed to make any remarkable artwork very boring of course, but at least looking at your wall you could learn something. For example, thanks to the 1984 — or was it 1986? — calendar I could find all about Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. My grandmother, who collected everything, used to cut out those photos and frame them when the calendar wasn’t useful anymore.
The quality of those calendars over the years has lowered, and I doubt these days anybody could learn anything significant looking at them — anything significant apart from acknowledging the unbearable tediousness of average graphic designers. Today I got my 2011 calendar and… guess what? It’s really really uninteresting. Terribly uninteresting. It’s so uninteresting that it made me want to buy immediately another calendar to make up for its overwhelming lack of interestingness. There are photos of rocks and water in it. And some of mossy soil. And more rocks, inside and outside water. There are also captions explaining why all those rocks and mossy soil should be considered so relevant to the point of justifying a whole calendar devoted to them, but the captions are even more boring than the pictures, so I couldn’t really focus and read any of them in its entirety. But yes, I actually looked at the calendar, first of all because it was free and secondly because I wasn’t really thinking, and since I am very lazy I doubt I will throw it away.