tapering unlikely hairiness

 Once we accept our limitations we go beyond them.   Albert Einstein

Today I have a bunch of ads that are either interesting or laughable or have soem pertinence to somebody somewhere!  I'm starting out, for obvious reasons with two Mini ads:

A Mini Vending Machine!

Elvis Jesus Perfume

Oddka Vodka in Weird Flavors

A new model SMEG refrigerator in real denim, just debuted in Milan

Tempur-Pedic Ad so you don't wake up like a bear-  'You Are How You Sleep'

     Haruhiko Kawaguchi, who goes by the name Photographer Hal, is a Tokyo photographer and artist whose project FLESH LOVE literally vacuum packs couples of all types in 100x150x74 cm plastic bags. The idea is to keep love fresh forever. Once the air is sucked out of the bag by a vacuum cleaner, Kawaguchi only has about 10-20 seconds to take his pictures. Any longer and he would risk causing harm to his subjects.

garbage cans covered in matching couture

Good Puppy, Good Dog desk and floor lamps

Corkcycle, designed to keep your beer cold by inserting a cork stopper attached to an icycle.

Genius Doll House/Coffee Table combo, great for a small house-  Oh, a small house for a Small House!

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Lucy Lippard, keynote address at a symposium, "The Feminist Future," at Museum of Modern Art, 2007 with a statement I need to adopt and adapt!:

"I've always been obsessed with the collage esthetic that defines so much feminist art -- a layered, cumulative mode.....  Collage is about shifting relationships, juxtaposition and superimposition, gluing and ungluing.  It's an esthetic that willfully takes apart what is or is supposed to be and rearranges it in ways that suggest what could be.  Collage makes something of contradictions.  It contains the possibilty of visual puns, accessible contrasts and irony.  It's also the medium of surprise, which can shake us out of our stupors."

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Compare and Contrast, then talk amongst yourselves~

 If ya can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!

By contrast, watch this TED talk from Phil Hansen where he discovers that limitations can indeed be the source of creativity.  This is possibly one of the best TED talks I have ever seen-  if you don't read another thing on this blog, watch this!  



OK, enough fun, I am outta here!  Heck, I don't even have a squirrel today. so instead I will just close with a nice picture of my herb of the day, with thanks to Sandy, JoAnn, and Victoria for identification.  Yes, THIS is purslane (aka Miners Lettuce and Claytonia perfoliata not the pictures I found with the succulent leaves-  that's how I got confused.  Cute little umbrellas, eh?