Our daughter's diapers had been disappearing from the stockpile under the living room coffee table (we keep a few there for those unexpected emergencies). I finally caught our dog, Newman, in the act (click thumbnail to enlarge picture).
Food is one category Photoshop morphing techniques should stay out of. Take this 2-bodied shrimp for example. Digitally sewn together to create an "S", the image conjures up thoughts of pollution. During a time when male fish are actually growing ovaries as a reaction to water contamination, editors should really be thinking of smarter ways to create an "S". Why bother connecting the two little guys at all? Make an "S" out of olive oil or something. If I were to give the newspaper the benefit of the doubt, perhaps the photographer boiled the pair as they were trying to eat each other. If that's the case, my apologies for the first half of this entry.
Every month, a postcard arrives in the mail from one of the largest realtors in Tallahassee. Without fail, their advertisements continue to instill consumer confidence with some of the most strategic advertising work in the region, building a solid brand on respect and trust.
Click thumbnail to view postcard.
Though I seriously doubt our little company has the mental capacity or the time needed to produce this kind of direct mail piece (nor do we have the kinds of Photoshop skills displayed in the postcard), we have taken a stab at creating a few ideas they could use over the next six months:
Jekyll Island, GA. Sunrise kind of.
Craig and Lee:
Let me start by saying that I love Market Street Liquors. It's where I purchase booze for the whole family before I head out on vacation. Words can't express how important they are to our quality time together.
That being said, here are a few words advice. If you designed this ad, either hire someone to do it, or purchase more ad space to accommodate your "Picks". If someone you hired designed it, give them a jug of your finest Carlo Rossi and tell them to be on their way. I don't even think your lawyers could read this.
See you in a few weeks. Vacation's a-comin'.
Click thumbnail to view ad. Ad was scanned at 100%.
Nothing instills confidence in amusement park rides more than placing a happy young couple in the path of a speeding rollercoaster car. The ad for the North Florida Fair features the last known shot of the couple together with their dog Ed, a large stuffed toy breed.
The most disturbing part? Click on the thumbnail and check out the woman in the front seat.
The Associated Press reports today that “Red wine keeps obese mice healthier … without the pain of dieting.” Harvard researchers fed mice high-fat diets and “huge doses of red wine,” but, the story goes on to say, they don’t know if the combination would work in people.Haven’t humans have been doing that for years? As a matter of fact, I know a few people who choose KFC over salad, and red wine over Zoloft. The results are impressive, but far from mice-like.The report, however, leaves out an important fact — whether the mice are American or French. After all, everyone knows the French suffer fewer incidents of cardiac disease than Americans, even as avid consumers of huge doses of cheese and wine.To determine if the diet would work in people, the FDA can simply mandate that red wine be offered at McDonald’s, KFC, and Burger King, make sure there’s more cheese content in each menu item, and perhaps install an XBOX or Sony Playstation at each table. If the plan works, we’ll see a decline in obesity. If it doesn’t, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will finally merge above the weight of our sunken continent.
What has six legs, antennae, fangs, a crisp exoskeleton, and a bad attitude? No, it's not your mother-in-law, it's a new strain of germ known only as germoroach.
Depicted here by an anonymous Tallahassee Democrat germ artist, its bark is bigger than its bite, researchers say, "but white blood cells don't know the difference. They just head for the hills, and who could blame them? They're just circles. They have no way of defending themselves."
"What are they gonna do," one microbiologist said, "turn into squares? Ooooh, scary."
Seen here at 2,000 times its actual size, germoroach's modus operandi is simple. Forida State University researchers say it "literally scares white corpuscles into the small intestine and out the body."
"Germoroach is a genius herder. They wrangle white corpuscles and lead them wherever they please. Unfortunately, they lead them where your body can't make use of them."
So what can be done?
"Same solution as every year," one local doctor says, "get your flu shot. And maybe talk a little trash to the germoroach. They really do scare easy."
