(video link)Like the late, great Bill Hicks, I really hate advertising. Unlike him, I have little-to-no talent for comedy. Mostly, I'm creating this page, so I never lose the link to this bit.
What inspired me to find/save that video link? Today, I saw this article:
Company floats ads in 'clouds' shaped like corporate logos
By Jay Reeves | Associated Press Writer
8:51 AM CDT, May 7, 2008
LEXINGTON, Ala. - Picture the Manhattan skyline filled with Nike swooshes. Or the golden arches of McDonald's gently drifting over Los Angeles. And the open thighs cruising over Las Vegas.
A special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big as 4 feet across and shaped like corporate logos — Flogos, as he calls them.
Francisco Guerra, who's also a former magician, developed a machine that produces tiny bubbles filled with air and a little helium, forms the foam into shapes and pumps them into the sky.
The Walt Disney Co. will use one of the machines next month to send clouds shaped like Mickey Mouse heads into the air at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., Guerra said.
Just when I thought marketing types couldn't flood our visual environment anymore, now they are f*cking with the clouds. Well, that's just craptastic. Look, they even have a clever little video demoing the tech (with light happy music, of course):
I don't know. Maybe I'm just becoming too much of a curmudgeon, but I really wanted to imagine a world where I could look up in the sky and just see the sky once in a while.