Photophores: June 18, 2008
June 18, 2008
In “creatures at airports” news…
A shipment of sundry creatures — including scorpions, turtles, tarantulas and frogs — were abandoned at the Mexico City airport.
Also, jackals, raptors and large monitor lizards crowded a New Delhi airport runway.
Moving on….
Conceptual designer Martà Guixé is making food more user-friendly.
PingMag goes to Vendex Japan, the vending machine manufacturer’s exhibition.
All-female roller derby is gaining legitimacy as a sport. I found it interesting that leagues are structured as skater-owned, skater-operated LLCs, with bylaws and boards of directors. Condy Rice should add that to her post-White House roster of board seats.
Whence the name Jennifer?
The Fisher-Price Zen Collection: Over-designed and disturbingly un-Zen, especially the Gliding Bassinette, which looks like Liberace’s teapot.
Lastly, this outdoor ad for Taste of Chicago (see pic below) is just embarrassing. “Taste’s Better Every Year”? No one caught that?
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Iaman | June 24, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Perhaps it’s implying that Taste is better every year, not that the food tastes better?
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kineticloop | June 24, 2008 at 3:38 pm
If they intended the former, they chose an awkward contraction that most people are probably going to misinterpret. But I think they meant the latter. Either way, they made a dog’s breakfast of it.
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Iaman | June 26, 2008 at 2:59 am
Oh, yes, that I completely agree with.