Graffiti / advertising

Graffiti / advertising

Image by Toban Black
It's not quite graffiti, and it's not quite advertising --
since the cash and bling imagery in the graffiti synchs up with the business it's on.

Perhaps the artist actually was paid to do that paint work there?

The baby chicks certainly are like those in the blatantly commercial 'graffiti' shown here -
www.flickr.com/photos/tobanblack/3772011249/
Perhaps the same person is behind both murals?

"Let's spend Christmas and New Year's this way! And not in a hospital!", 1941 - 1945

Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: "Let's spend Christmas and New Year's this way! And not in a hospital!", 1941 - 1945

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-44-PA-1279

From:: World War II Posters, compiled 1942 - 1945

Created By:: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 - 09/15/1945)

Production Date: 1941 - 1945

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Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park

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Knobbly sea star (Protoreaster nodosus)

Image by wildsingapore
There was a baby Knobbly sea star among the seagrasses! It looked like a cartoon miniature of the larger adult. How cute!

More about this sea star on the wildfacts sheets on wildsingapore.

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Ice, Ice Baby!

Image by Odd Bod
I was taking a photo of the fountain that you can see the bottom of in the top left hand corner of the photo when I did a 'running in air' cartoon style slip.

Thankfully I never went arse over tip and my camera survived intact. I thought I'd take a photo of the ice so I may forever remember the time and place that I got away with my life!

Taken in Centenary Square in Birmingham, UK.