Object Record / FI-EPH-027
Pizza Banner
digital / JPEG, 1836×1134 / original photograph / printed vinyl banner, grommeted / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-05 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Photograph supplied for The Shadow Zone: a printed vinyl banner, grommeted at the corners and stretched slightly slack, carrying a counterfeit pizza-chain wordmark. The mark copies the orange ground, white cartouche, green oval and red panels of the Little Caesars trade dress, down to a registered-trademark symbol, but substitutes an obscenity for the chain's name — the banner reads "CUNT BROTHERS PIZZA". The wording is transcribed here because it is the object; the file and record are named neutrally so the vulgarity does not propagate into URLs and indexes. Unaffiliated with and unendorsed by the chain whose trade dress it parodies. Maker, printer, location, and date of the banner are not recorded; the exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.
Restoration relevance
Why it remains connected
accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.
Uncertainty notes
What remains unresolved
digital / JPEG, 1836×1134 / original photograph / printed vinyl banner, grommeted. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.
Relationships
Keep the object connected.
Related objects
Parent system
The Shadow Zone
A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.
Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open
Field logs / dossiers
Archive routes
Source Assets / 1 reference
Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.
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assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-027-pizza-banner.jpegOpen local asset