Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"I am Powerful"

I am Powerful


Our daily routine is composed of countless visual assaults: billboards that do nothing for the landscape. As someone said, "advertising's constant mission to creep into every corner of our lives". But every once in a while, and I have to hand it to the Madison Avenue, they come up with something that jolts you into looking beyond your immediate needs. Care.org has been creating some very "powerful" ads and on an issue close to my heart: focus on women's innate power in fighting the global poverty. I decided to put it up here as my final contribution to Project Yellow.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to mention about this friend who's running a 26 miles marathon this June in San Diego to raise funds for cancer research. His mother's a breast cancer survivor of several years and his close cluster of family and friends has unfortunately not been free of cancer-related diseases. Please do have a look at his website here and pass the word around and/or donate if you can. Thank you for listening and have a great week ahead :)

17 comments:

Kerri Farley said...

WOW! That is a powerful sign!
Great contribution to Project Yellow too!

Hope your friend does well in his marathon!! A great way to raise money for cancer research!!

Anonymous said...

A nice post. Very interesting narrative too.

Unknown said...

Great image, not only for Project Yellow, but a great image all around! And a really good post to go with it as well.

Gawdess said...

beautiful yellow and powerful messages!

tommie said...

That is a great image and ad. I might have to try that close up/half face thing.

BTW, so glad you find my blog 'cool'. I started it as a way to communicate with my husband while he was deployed. I have played around with my camera so much more since then!

Lori said...

Another great contribution to project yellow and a great message. That is a powerful sign. Her face has a lot of expression in it.

Anonymous said...

A fine text and a powerful image!

YesBut said...

What an eye grabbing image.

Sometimes I take a shot and think "that's good", then I see an image such as you've posted, and I think #### back to the drawing board!

annulla said...

Wonderful, thought-provoking image. Your post is powerful, too.

Blather From Brooklyn

Anna said...

Wonderful Moi! I love all of it...

photowannabe said...

Moi, this is one of your best. Important message and perfet for project yellow.

WichitaKsDailyPhoto said...

Hi Moi, as I was reading your post mentioning billboards, it reminded me of looking down from an airplane at a city full of billboards - and not seeing them. From the air they are thin, and unnoticeable. I'm surprised they don't make them wider with advertising on top, to be seen by airline passengers in flight.

Nazzareno said...

A very expressive face, a great message!

bluemountainmama said...

that IS a powerful billboard. it jumps out at you. really doesn't even need words.

i get sick of the constant advertising bombardment.... it actually makes me angry when i see billboards pop up along our beautiful mountain roads. it's a detraction from nature's beauty... trying to get us to buy things, taking away our focus from the scenery around.

Sarad said...

i see discomfort in those eyes.

Anonymous said...

I pass this billboard every morning to work. I love it.

Chad Oneil Myers said...

I like how you captured this.