i forget exactly where i came across the image (probably a news site) and it’s definitely old news by now… but i still wanted to share this incredible view of the recent ‘puyehue cordón caulle’ volcano eruption in chile, nature proving once again just how amazing it is and just how limited we are…
this stark black and white ad was placed on the arts page of todays ‘new york times’, the small text below reads as follows:
‘dutch governement decimating support for the arts. severe damage will be done. dutch arts can no longer hold their unique position on the world’s stage.
disgruntled dutch artists +31 613 517 169’
calling the number lead me to a voicemail message with an email address for the group ‘dutch artists’ and urging me to get in touch… the revolution will be televised…
grumbling about the weaher is a national pastime for the british, now i can do it in style with this nifty little weather screensaver, if you’re town isn’t in there, send him a mail and he’ll even add it for you… nice
now that is what i would call a pretty extreme case of product placement/promotion: the southern spanish town ‘juzcar’ has been completely (yes completely) painted in blue to promote the forthcoming ‘smurfs 3D’ movie…
update: designer ‘franklin de bekker’ mailed me with some extra news, apparently ‘sony’ had originally offered to repaint the whole town white again, after the film première… but the people of juzcar declined and have decided to keep their ‘smurf blue’ houses, in the hope of attracting tourism as a result, weird just got weirder…
with barely one day left before the end of the fotofestival naarden 2011 a second large-scale picture decided to leave early, this time one of the images by ‘ingrid baars’ was stolen, at least they chose a decent one this time…