Crayola Crayon Color Names ~ Rain = Pain

In case you wanted more feeling from the images that are thrust in front of you and your kids every day, Crayola has taken steps to give it to you with its new color names.  Three of them are relevant here: Best Friends, Fun in the Sun, and Super Happy.  Here they are from their [...]

Tiffany conch and diamond Chrysanthemum Brooch ~ what do you call an octopus with 31 legs?

If you think that this Tiffany & Co. brooch looks more like an octopus than a chrysanthemum, your instincts might not be too far off:
 
Its petals are carved from a single conch shell, and the piece has an exquisite and rare conch diamond weighing in at 25 carats.   This is one of those crazy pieces [...]

Ford Escape Hybrid ‘most fuel-efficient SUV’

You wouldn’t know that this opening shot of a Flash ad from NationalGeographic.com is for an SUV:

Just because a car is more fuel efficient than others doesn’t make it fuel efficient or green.  But Ford wants us to believe that the Escape literally sits in a beautiful field of sunflowers:

I’m not buying it.  Literally.  I’m [...]

Poinsettia ~ Did you know?

Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), the popular holiday plant that appears in wintry white places across the country, is actually a warm-weather, sub-tropical coastal plant from the Pacific side of the Americas.  The red parts of the plant are actually not the flowers; they’re bracts.  The yellow part contains the flower.
The use of poinsettias in Christmas traditions [...]

The Dutch might build a tulip-shaped island

According to Emma Thomasson at the UK’s Guardian, some people in the Netherlands are pushing a Dubai-like plan to build an island in the shape of a tulip.  Unlike the other islands that are being built exclusively for (terrible) aesthetic reasons, those involved with this one say that it’s supposedly to help flooding problems, along [...]

The BASF Biodegradable plastic bag flower

The scale of an object is such an important element in any photo.  I was proud of this Ecoflex plastic bag flower ad find from BASF in which they tout their new biodegradable plastics:

Then someone saw the ad on my desk and said she was appalled by what she thought the yellow center was.  [...]

White Cat Brand Inhaler ~ Breathe in the tropics

Small towns can reveal some of the most interesting products.  This picture was taken in a little shop in Orland, Maine:

I have never heard of this product before.  What exactly could a small plastic tube contain that transports you to the tropics?  You can sense all four seasons if you believe this display, or maybe [...]

US Postal Service Flower Stamps and Guam

Some of the more beautiful stamps by the postal service are the Beautiful Blooms seen here (click to enlarge):

You might also like to get a good tropical island stamp like this one:

Thank you, Guam!  More power to you if you can pronounce "Hagåtña Bay," where this was taken.  I like the fact that they actually [...]

Sony Playstation 3 ~ Universe of Entertainment

One of AdForum’s Top 5 ads this week is for the Sony Playstation 3.  It is black-and-white industry with cuts to color game scenes.  It starts out with this weird wheel of widgets, and they zoom on on these flowers on top that bloom and zoom into the stamen and pistil, which are actually a [...]

Benjamin Moore ~ declare that you are a tropical flower with their Aura paints

In one of this year’s Benjamin Moore paint brochures for their Aura paints, they portray images of flowers whose colors spill directly into paint:

They have employed a good bit of Photoshop talent to get this look just right.  So if home is a declaration of who you are, are you a tropical flower or more [...]

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