Found gift-tag, Feb 2009
Saturday 28 February 2009
Friday 27 February 2009
I make art until someone dies
The Joker 'improves' various works of art, sparing Francis Bacon, before giving Vicki Vale a tutorial.
Thursday 26 February 2009
Translation Fallecy, Spain are you lactating?
In 1993 the California Milk Processor Board began the now famous “Got Milk?” advertising campaign. This new slogan, which teasingly presented the audience with the possibility of taking out cookies or pouring a bowl of cereal, only to discover they had run out of milk, quickly boosted the flagging milk sales in California, instilling in consumers a sense of the necessity of always having milk on hand.
Encouraged by the early success of the advertisement, the Milk Board turned their attention to the large Latino community in California. Unfortunately, after briefly attempting to adapt the original slogan, the Milk Board realized they would have to employ a different tactic if they wished to successfully reach the Spanish-speaking demographic—apparently this new audience was less than responsive to the company’s translation of the “Got Milk?” slogan, which read something along the lines of “Are you lactating?”
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Friday 13 February 2009
Darwinian cuteness
Scientists who study the evolution of visual signaling have identified a wide and still expanding assortment of features and behaviors that make something look cute: bright forward-facing eyes set low on a big round face, a pair of big round ears, floppy limbs and a side-to-side, teeter-totter gait, among many others.
Cute cues are those that indicate extreme youth, vulnerability, harmlessness and need, scientists say, and attending to them closely makes good Darwinian sense. As a species whose youngest members are so pathetically helpless they can’t lift their heads to suckle without adult supervision, human beings must be wired to respond quickly and gamely to any and all signs of infantile desire.
The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and so ends up including the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession.
Therefore a cotton wool dog with weird eyes and toliet roll peg leg.
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