The Most Unusual and Strange Architecture from Around the World

Here are some unusual and very different buildings that I stumbled upon. You can check the rest out here.

PhotoShopped or Not Photoshopped??

Here is a website I found that showcases Photographs that have not been photoshopped at all. It's pretty amazing that some of this pictures are how things naturally appear. Click here to see the rest of them.

Animal Photography

I'm not sure who these photographs are by but I thought they were amazing and wanted to share. I was drawn to the bright pops of colors with all of them. 

Just a few more Ads

Well it's the end of the semester and classes are coming to a close. So here are a few more ads to end the semester.

Everything you touch is on your hands and now it's on the next thing you touch. You and every thing you have every touched is now on this door knob.

Even the straw doesn't want to drink Coca- Cola or anything that isn't a Pepsi.

I think this is rather clever, In reality that camera would never fit in that crack but the companies creating this ad want you to think that in order to get you to buy there product, Although if the camera was that thin I'd be afraid of losing it. 

Fast Food

In my final research paper for this class I am discussing ads just as I have been posting interesting ones all semester. When researching for this project I came across the advertisements for fast food. The pictures they put before us make their food look amazing and delicious but in reality we get a half-asked sloppy mess that never looks anything like the picture. All restaurants do this, tricking us with their pretty pictures to get us to buy the food.  Here are a few examples of what I mean...

Taco Bell's Nachos Bell Grande

This is what you really get...

McDonald's Big Mac

This is how they give it to you...

Burger King's Whopper

and here's your food...

Clever Advertisements

Here are a few ads that make you think and do some double takes...

A stack of Cds create a can of Heineken. Rather then using a real can, the Cds create the illusion of the can. 

This women has been trying to figure out the Rubiks Cube since she was little and hasn't been able to do it yet. She sits in here room, having grown out of her childhood clothing. 

Sears Optical, wants you to buy their glasses so you can see how the magicians really levitate their assistants.  

Ads Using Famous Paintings

These are just a few ads that recycle famous works of art and re-appropriate them for their ads. 

Vincent Van Gogh used by Alliance Francaise 

A remake of Rodin's The Thinker for Centrum

Dali used for Volkswagon

Magrittie's Self-Portrait,  Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring used for Megamix Blenders

A combination of Magritte's work used for Volkswagon

Painting on People

I was shown this artist, Alexa Meade, by a fellow classmate. I'm using her creative style of painting on people as inspiration for my current project. I have recently done a shoot using paint myself but am Still having a hard time with the best way to convey my meanings and purposes. Upon see her images/ work I thought blogging about it would be a good way to share. 

She uses the human body as her canvas, creating a moving painting. It's quite incredible to see something so innovative. I've never really seen any thing like it before. I am curious though if her reasoning for painting on people is to change their identity or to enhance it. For me and my work I'm trying to change it, so it's interesting if she's doing the opposite or not. To combine to mediums into one is really a fun idea.

Cindy Sherman

On our class syllabus we were to talk about the work Of Cindy Sherman today in class. I have seen her work before and took it upon myself to look up her work again. For those of you who do not know Sherman uses herself and creates new characters to make a statement. I found this photograph she mad that is a direct reference to Jean Fouquet's Madonna and Child and every other Madonna and child that shows the Virgin's breast.  Obviously the images are not the same, Sherman's image is only the essence of Fouquet's painting. Sherman wears the crown and veil while her breast is exposed and she holds the child. Her child is hidden where as Fouquet's is portrayed and the face is visible. The coloring and fabrics are not the same nor are they the same color. This just goes to show that past art effects the art of today. 

Here are some more of Cindy Sherman's photos....

Here it is as though she pokes fun at the rich and old who find the need to be lifted and tucked as well as injected with botox and silicon to make themselves appear younger when in reality they look ridiculous. 

Here she seems to be poking fun at the rich, high class women. The sophisticated, woman attending a gala. This resembles the higher class persons. 

National Geographic

Class discussion and readings dealt heavily with National Geographic and I thought it would be appropriate to blog some incredible photos from the magazine's website. 

Butterfly and Trees, Madidi National Park, Bolivia

Photo by Joel Sartore

I love butterflies and dragonflies so to see a butterfly of this size is incredible. The contrast of it's white blue color against the green of the trees is breathe taking.

Clownfish and Bubble-Tipped Anemone

Photo by David Doubliet

When I saw this photo my mind automatically went to Finding Nemo. Very cliche but I none the less thought it. 

Cuban Tree Frog, Florida

Photo by James Snyder

How amazing is this? What are the chances of finding a frog that has mistaken a Christmas light for food? 

Lightning, Arizona

Photo by Richard T. Cole

I love lightning, it's amazing to see how it spiders out. I once saw lightning below me while flying in a plane over London. It was such an amazing experience, one that I would probably never see again. This picture is unique in that lighting only strikes like that once and the photographer was able to capture it. 

Moonset, California

Photo by Peter Essick

An amazing shot, the moon is the same color as the rocks. A shot like this is one in a million, made at the absolute perfect moment. 

Creative Ads

So apparently Colgate wants us to use their new brush that gives you the fresh clean feeling of a mouth full of brushes. It's sort of absurd to look at but makes you think. If there is one brush that can clean as well as all these together then I guess it must be pretty good. 

You eat what you touch. This hand cleaner is trying to sell based on the fact that they want you to know if you touch your dog and then your loaf of bread you pretty much eating your dog because of the germs. I'm most certain that there are dirtier things that you touch on a daily basis worse then a dog. It's kind of a rather weird ad, but it makes you think and gets it's meaning across.

This ad says "Do you really know how much you spend on cigarettes?" It's a very ingenious ad, equating the amount some one spends on cigarettes in about a year to the amount it would cost to buy a new car. So every time some one buys a cartoon of cigarettes they are basically throwing away money that could be use on more essential things. 

Creative Halloween Ads

So I figured it's almost Halloween, why not explore some Halloween ads!!

Our first ad is for Guinness. They say Guinness is "The true brew of Halloween". Other then a full glass of Guinness sitting in a pumpkin patch, I'm a little unsure why it's for Halloween. I could see if it was a spice lager or something of that nature but it's a regular ordinary glass of Guinness. Sure its dark color makes you think it may be spooky but in reality it's just a glass of Guinness being overtaken by a pumpkin patch with a spooky cloudy sky behind it. 

Our next Halloween ad is for Macdonalds. They are suggesting that no matter who you are or what your costume is you should come to get some food on Halloween. Even Cinderella in her carriage that just turned back into a pumpkin at mid-night can come through the drive-thru to get some food when she's hungry. Even her mice can join her in her dining experience. I'm not really sure how many Macdonalds' are open past midnight however, so I'm not sure Cinderella would have made it there before they closed.

The guy at the window looks really surprised, I guess it's normal for a carriage to roll through a drive-thru at midnight in the 21st century. 

This final Halloween ad is for Iglo frozen vegetables. This is more then one way you can play with your food. I feel like any child who would see this ad would be scared to eat a vegetable or be more willing to play with their food then eat it. It's a neat idea, I would have never thought to create a jack-o-lantern out of a potato, tomato, onion or carrot before. The bottom of the image says "making a delicious soup is no longer a nightmare." Maybe the carved veggies are supposed to be funny or maybe it's not a nightmare because they're gonna be eaten and thrown into a boiling pot of broth. 

Another Advertisement

I found this image in another google search, it's part of a WWF campaign. They are using the polar bears to represent ice caps/icebergs. Are the bears just sleeping or have they already become extinct in the photo? Global warming will one day result in the world having no ice caps left at all and the polar bears will be left with no home or food at all. Eventually they will die out and this ad, so I assume, is trying to prevent that, making it aware how serious the situation has become. 

Advertisements

Upon googling the term advertisement I found two ads with a very similar theme, a Nike ad and a Pepsi ad. Both theme's I would say are pretty obvious, but hold some what different meanings and messages.

Nike 'Just do it' ad.

So, looking at the Pepsi ad we can denote the famous Nike logo and it's slogan as graffiti in a run down city or town. We see a white dog, probably a Chiwawa, and a young boy peeing on the side of a building. Neither the dog or the young boy wear sneakers or any kind of shoe for that matter, so what is Nike trying to do? I mean, when I look at this the first thought that comes to mind is that the boy has to pee and Nike is encouraging him to 'just do it'. Nike's famous swoosh is every where we kind of just know by now what Nike makes. In a side note, I  find it funny that the dog looks on with confusion and interest at the boy, like he's not sure if he should do it too. 

'Pepsi Twist' ad.

When looking at this ad for Pepsi twist, you already seem to get the meaning of the ad and what they are trying to sell. We see a  full bottle of Pepsi Twist next to a full glass of what I would assume is regular pepsi. A very personified lime stands on the top of the bottle and is in the middle of peeing into the regular glass of Pepsi. Hence, the regular Pepsi is getting it's twist from the lime. It's a rather clever ad and it's meaning is clear, sort of gross but clear.