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 [...]

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 [...]

Aloha West Virginia ~ from Arlington, Virginia

I found these lamp banners in an outdoor shopping center in Arlington, Virginia over Labor Day. The image of the flowers looked awfully aloha, but I wasn’t sure what kind of flower it was. Then I found it: After some research, I believe that it’s the Rhododendron maximum, which is the state flower of West [...]

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