Ebony and irony

The truth doesn't require retouching.

GreenGraffiti cleans up the ad business

GreenGraffiti has powerwashed Domino's logos into dirty sidewalks across America as part of the pizza chain's 'American Legends' campaign. Laying a stencil down on the street, they spray the self-proclaimed eco-friendly images into the grime on the street using a high-pressure water hose.

Now, before the skeptic in you scoffs at the environmental claim, our internal cynic already did some digging and found things like GreenGraffiti invests in a water harvesting project for each liter of water they use, and the stencils are made from recycled materials. Heck, they even claim their web site is powered by the wind.

More than 200 of these Domino’s ads currently litter the streets of New York, L.A. and Philly.

When animals attack. . .with bazookas

From Irra the Burrowing Owl to Titus the Grizzly Bear, the members of the Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo is putting the "Grrrr" back in "endangered."

This irreverent take on conservation is part of Rocket World, an outfit out of San Francisco that just seems to be having a little more fun than most people, featuring works from artists of the "Pop-Surrealist" and "Low Brow" movements.



And you have to admit our owl friend above is certainly UHU-worthy.

Com-post

To celebrate Earth Day, we're doing our part by recycling a couple of posts. So enjoy...again.

Roids all the rage in baseball

I watched Alex Rodriguez's interview where he admitted using steroids. It was so fake and scripted - for a minute I thought I was watching 'The Hills'. I wish A-Rod did like Sammy Sosa a few years ago, and suddenly forget how to speak English. I have nothing personal against A-rod, just Major League Baseball. It's turned into a convoluted sport that's traded peanuts and cracker jack for asterisks and hall-of-fame debates.

So, sports fans, until baseball cleans up its drug mess we'll have to watch other sports, like swimming, or cycling, etc.

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Generation Why

There are the Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y and the Millenials. But what about the recession generation? Don't they deserve their own distinction? After all, they're the ones who will have to clean up this mess. A few humble suggestions:

The Busters
A respectful nod to their grandparents - the Boomers. ["...the circle of life..."]

Billion Dollar Babies
We're investing in your future. And sending you the bill.

The Misers
Like the Depression-era generation before them, these kids are going to learn to reuse paper towels and coffee grounds like never before.

Generation Why / Generation Whine
Rather than doing something about it, they'll probably blame the generations before them and pass the buck to the generations to come. It's worked before.

The Crunched
Even street cred is hard to come by these days.

Earth Hour and the simplicity skyline

Today is St. Patrick's Day, and we just wanted to give a tip o' the hat to a fine wee ad we saw just the other day. It's for Earth Hour - the global brainchild of the World Wildlife Fund with the aim of having 1 billion people around the world shut off all their lights for one hour on March 28. It will serve as a petition that they will then take to the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Conceived in the grand tradition of reversible ads.

Last year, 50 million switched off their lights, including landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and even the Coca-Cola billboard in Times Square.

So mark your calendar for March 28, 8:30pm and light some candles, break out the board games and help keep the Blue Planet blue.

(Editor's Note: Happy Birthday, Nancy.)