- activism
- anarchy
- apocalypse
- Athens
- bicycles
- birds
- books
- Buenos Aires
- clubs
- coffee
- couple's dancing
- Dante's Inferno
- demons
- drunks
- Dyckman
- economy
- film
- fire hydrants
- graffiti
- Greek diners
- gross factor
- Havana
- idling
- immigration
- Inwood
- Ioannina
- it's a man's world
- Miami
- New York City
- Nova Speaks
- Ode to...
- odyssey essentials
- olympians
- on the subway
- Outer Space
- paradise
- police
- press
- prostitution
- public space
- restaurants
- Rio
- salsa
- school
- Sicily
- sidewalks
- Sinvergüenza
- star trek
- star wars
- stores
- street cookie
- taxis
- trees
- twilight zone
- urban confessions
- Washington Heights
- zipcar
Race is for the dogs, too!
Along the same lines of the Dove ad commentary, here is another ad, this one for doggies with ticks. It also trips itself up with human race messages. The campaign is called Pooch Protest (poochprotest.com).
http://www.petparents.com/show.aspx/k9-advantix-pooch-protest
Pure breed white lab with “all-American” voice leads the mutt herd on how to empower themselves against ticks. The good doggie example (who uses the tick brand) is a blond happy doggy. The one ravagaed with ticks is sad and brown, and horrible ticks are gnawing at his mangly coat.
No, not nuts here- these images add up!
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Architectural Abominations of Gentrification
Grab your bag of popcorn and take a look at how the Upper West Side continues to gentrify and loose some of its character. Gone is the beloved Greek diner that stood here (which took in some previously displaced diner workers and patrons that were usurped by the Whole Foods construction a few blocks over) and up went this white plastic…. what the heck is it? “Hip apartments” of course, that fit oh so nicely with the rest of the neighborhood’s architecture.
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Checking in or Taking Out?
You tell me if this sign looks like the entrance to an Emergency Room (which it is) or an old 50’s Diner?
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Once upon a Tree… Returns?
In October I blogged about the sadness of this tree pit near 59th Street-
how final its destiny looked all bricked up. But it looks like there might be some re-consideration? Here’s what the site looks like now…
Let’s see what ending this urban tree pit gets.
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Here we go again…
Thanks Dove! You’ve done some work on making women love their own unique body type. But this ad in People Magazine is a bit of a step backwards on loving your skin…color. Do you have someone of color on your marketing team that might have picked this up? Tired of being on the “before” end of skin tones, body size and hair type on improvement spectrums. Yes, it could very well not be your intention, but we see this all too often in media- the subliminal messages we get on what constitutes improvement. And too often people and cultures of color are placed on the “need of improvement” end. So you gotta watch the messages you send!
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