Spotting Dangerous Predators
From the Flickr photostream of www.visitbritian.co.uk, a photo that sets up an interesting analogy on predatory marketing! Is it your “Jaws” devouring that bottled water?
Entries by Gayle Leonard
This Real Estate Development is Tanking
Dan Reed from Just Up the Pike, an excellent Montgomery County, Maryland blog, profiles this available-now dream home. (Perhaps this what is meant by the phrase “wet dream?” No, don’t think so!) 3 BR 3.5 BA Colonial, near schools, shopping and 495. Potential for waterfront access (comes with two of every animal just in case). […]
Dogs Rule the Pool in Colorado
Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer in the U.S. so let’s close this one out with a major dose of the cuteness “Awwwwwws!” At Scott Carpenter Pool in Boulder, Colorado the annual Dog Dayz event gives the rules a pause (paws?) to let the canines swim, dive and rule the pool on a […]
The Boss is a Visionary
From May, 2008, Dilbert’s boss solves the water-energy conundrum.
h2o mp3: Its All About the Water – Jimmy Buffett
Did you know that Jimmy Buffett tried his hand at musical theater? No? That’s because the effort made little more than a ripple! The 1998 stage play Don’t Stop the Carnival, based on Herman Wouk’s 1965 novel of the same name, played only briefly in Miami but hooray! The studio album of 20 original compositions […]
Artfrastructure! Cover My World
São Paulo, Brazil artists Anderson Augusto (aka SÃO) and Leonardo Delafuente (aka Delafuente) are taking it to the streets with the “6emeia Project” with the goal to change and transform some of the more mundane objects in the urban landscape. From the 6emeia website (where you can see many more examples): The duo’s objective is […]
If I Could Place Ads on a Bottle
With demand dropping and prices with it, the bottled water industry needs new business models, and UK-based Soak Media is promoting one tried-and-true idea. Borrowing a page from ad-supported free media, Soak is passing out free ad-laden bottled water to Londoners this summer. Billing itself as “the refreshing way to talk to Londoners”, the site […]
Flying Water Catcher for the Futuristic Home
I hope I live long enough to own one of these! The fanciful Water Catcher, conceptualized by Penghao Shan from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China, is a finalist in the Electrolux Design Lab ’09. It is a robotic “birdie” that flies about, returning home with a bounty of water gathered from rain or humidity. The idea […]
The Visual Water Dictionary: Cake
The Visual Water Dictionary attempts to cut confusion on ambiguous water terminology with easy visual references. (Thanks to Nancy Swartz for suggesting today’s entry!) Today’s term: Cake 1. In the final stages of wastewater treatment, Cake is the dried material produced when sludge is de-watered. It is usually used as a fertilizer or transported to a […]
How to Trap Children in the Dark and Lonely Water
Somehow, fear as a motivator has fallen out of favor. Back in the day, though, scaring the tar out of kids was a perfectly acceptable method for keeping them in check. This 70s-era water safety clip from the UK was designed to educate by terror, with a creepy grim-reaper type character lurking in the waterways, […]