Passion for Advertising

I don’t mind pointing out some great ads…

Copy says: “They told me I can have a body like this in just two months.”

London Punk Photos

Very cool punk photos on Flickr by Andy Rosen. These photos span the years 1976 to 1984 in London

This one is of Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols.

Haha, Wedding Robots!

I just saw a Google advertisement on this site for ‘Welding Robots’, which I had mistakenly read as ‘Wedding Robots‘… which turn out to exist!

Wedding photographers could be put out of a job by a robot developed by scientists at Washington University in St Louis in the US.

The machine, called Lewis, looks like an upside down dustbin with a digital camera on top.

It is programmed to wander around a room, picking out people’s faces and taking photographs.

Tracing Shadows

Many, many chalk tracings of hydrants and bicycles started cropping up all over Brooklyn this past spring.

During daylight, the outlines did not make much sense. Shopkeepers and bar owners had little information. Deliverymen muttered to themselves as they moved their outlined bicycles indoors. Parents were just as confused as their young children.

But under the orange glow of the streetlights, the intent became clear: the outlines are shadows, burned into the sidewalk.

Shadow art was born out of the experience of being mugged, and the shadow of the machete-wielding assailant was burned in the artist’s mind.

William James

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” – William James

Food-related Art

Cocinalia is a wonderful Spanish food blog and the writer, Fini, has come up with an excellent idea for a one off me-me: a virtual online food museum.

Via Slashfood.