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Cool Street Advertisements

ORIGINALITY IN MARKETING: THE TOP 20 “STREET” ADVERTISEMENTS

Sometimes invasive and annoying, urban marketing does has the potential to be innovative in how the city’s objects are used to convey a message.

BY FLOYD (TOPITO) ON JANUARY 27, 2011

There is something interesting about ads that creatively take advantage of urban space (notably from Julian Beever’s optical illusions). Clearly this domain sparks the imagination and gives way to endless innovations. This list is devoted to streets and restricts the art to the ground, further cultivating an appreciation for urban space.

1-Vijay Sales’s barbecues


2-A musical crossing

3-An orthodontist can straighten that out

4-The South African tourism office

5-The pedestrian crossing bar-code

6-NGO Aseema for children’s rights

7-Mr. Clean makes it whiter

8-McDonald fries tries to take over the world

9-Opitical illusions by Julian Beever

10-A new security system for manholes

11-A hot cup of coffee…


12- The promotion for the children’s books “The Kids Who Could Fly”

13-Fedex’s office supplies

14-Durex condoms: with “knobs” :-)

15-The new Canon: with a bigger “zoom”

16-Your cigarette butts go in the trash…

17-Made by a creative hairdresser

18-Water is life


19-Amnesty International

20-A memorial for victims of the road

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Cosplay Cleavage Tutorial

I know this is a bit strange for me to post.  However, I found it an enlightening and simple guide for women with normal proportions to play superheroes with abnormal proportions without the need  for any surgical alterations.  So, if you are a cosplayer, know one, or just find this interesting, this is a guide to improving your super hero cleavage for cosplay.

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Artwork by Noah Bradley

Anytime I see a fellow Bradley doing something cool I can’t resist the opportunity to highlight it here.  I don’t know Noah, but his art is pretty amazing.  Here is his site, and some samples: (click to enlarge and see full pictures)

http://www.noahbradley.com/

NOAH BRADLEY

Environment Concept Art, Illustration, and Visual Development | noahbradley@gmail.com

Chief of the Ways by Noah Bradley

Published in Spectrum 19, Exposé 10, Richmond Illustrator’s Club Juried Show | Buy a print | Buy a playmat

The Desperate Lamentations by Noah Bradley

Published in Spectrum 20 | Watch the 5 hour process video | Buy a print | Buy a playmat

The City of Shakar by Noah Bradley

Copyright 2012 Wizards of the Coast

Cover for Dungeon magazine

Copyright 2011 Wizards of the Coast | Buy a print | Sketches & process

 I’m a concept artist, illustrator, and visual development artist specializing in environment art. For a more detailed look at my experience, you candownload my résumé. I am available for freelance and contract positions. If you would like to work together, send me an email atnoahbradley@gmail.com

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Cosplayer Pictures

More cosplay pictures for your enjoyment.  For earlier posts, please type “cosplay” into the search block on my home page.

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A $3 Million RV

The $3 Million RV…

Marchi Mobile EleMMent Palazzo is a $3M rolling excess machine

By Jeff Glucker

Published June 12, 2013

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Your average Class-A motorhome is an expensive machine fitted with a standard array of luxurious features. Be it granite counter tops, stainless appliances, flat-screen TVs, or quadruple pop outs, upgrading a coach is an easy affair if you’ve got the bucks. What if you want more though… much more. Marchi Mobile has the recreational vehicle that you’ve been dreaming about. Or maybe it’s having nightmares about, depending on which part you’re viewing.

The Marchi Mobile EleMMent Palazzo is a rolling tribute to excess and wealth. It’s also packed with style, both good and bad. The exterior looks like a genetically mutated oversized Pontiac Aztek from the future, sent back in time to kill all who made the original vehicle.

Inside, however, it’s a completely different story if you’re a fan of modern design and style. There’s a great use of space, ultra luxurious furniture and appliance choices. A jet-like gangway unfolds to provide access to the interior, which can be massively expanded by the oversized pop-out slider. There’s even a pop-up rooftop bar for when you’re parked and want to become emperor of the local RV parking section.

A large diesel engine provides power for this exotic rolling rig, and it spits out emissions through a pair of exhaust outlets mounted under a rear diffuser. We don’t imagine that improves handling, but it looks pretty cool.

So what would it take to add this machine to your luxury stable? About $3 million. It’s certainly cheaper and more comfortable than a jet.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/12/marchi-mobile-elemment-palazzo-is-3m-rolling-excess-machine/#ixzz2XAy3bDmF

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50 Insane Facts about Australia

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June 23, 2013 · 9:41 pm

Ever Wonder What a 4-6-2 Train Is?

I have read a lot of historical books and they always refer to trains as 4-6-2, 0-4-2, 0-4-0…etc.  I always wondered what that meant.  Is it the size of the engine, some short designation of the manufacturer?  So, I researched it.  Below are excerpts from the best page on it I have found.  Don’t hate because it is on Wikipedia…it is much better than the other sources.  The complete link at the end.

Here we go…

The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte[2] and came into use in the early twentieth century, encouraged by an editorial inAmerican Engineer and Railroad Journal (December 1900). The notation counts the number of leading wheels, then the number of driving wheels, and finally the number of trailing wheels, groups of numbers being separated by dashes.[3] Other classification schemes, like UIC classification and the French, Turkish and Swiss systems for steam locomotives, count axles rather than wheels.

In the notation a locomotive with two leading axles (four wheels) in front, then three driving axles (six wheels) and then one trailing axle (two wheels) is classified as 4-6-2.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyte_notation

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Tower Bridge – 1893

c. 1893:

Completing Tower Bridge

completing the tower bridge 1893

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More Random Humor

Random humor for your enjoyment!  (for earlier posts, type “random humor” or “humor” into the Search box on my home page)

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World Map With Original Place Name Meanings

World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings

The “Atlas of True Names“…

…reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today’s maps…

For instance, where you would normally expect to see the Sahara indicated, the Atlas gives you “The Tawny One”, derived from Arab. es-sahra “the fawn coloured, desert”….

Update: There is now a more in-depth version specifically for the United States.

(via Weasel King)

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