Update: Also from the site Deviant Art is this cool imagining of fast food mascots as characters in a fighting game by Lysol-Jones.

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Domino’s Pizza, a client of mine, is behind this innovative new campaign.  GreenGraffiti is a tactic/company that began in Europe in 2006 and Domino’s is one of the first companies to use GreenGraffiti logos in America.  Below is a leaked image of the first of these logos to appear on a sidewalk in a U.S. city.  But it doesn’t stop with this one: 220 more of these Domino’s “American Legends” logo’s will soon be placed around New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

There is a cool twist to this campaign.  As I mentioned, in addition to placing these logos in three different cities, Domino’s has created a bit of a scavenger hunt for their customers. According to Domino’s:

The first 250 people to email pr@dominos.com and submit a photo of them with a Green Graffiti® sidewalk Domino’s logo will receive a $15 Domino’s gift card, good for a Domino’s American Legends pizza.

Click HERE for full details on the contest/giveaway.

For those of you wondering how the  logos like the one above get made, the GreenGraffiti website explains:

With the help of a template and a high pressure water sprayer an advertising message is cleaned out of the dirt. The result is a high impact message and a cleaner street.

Unlike traditional advertising, no trees will be killed, paper printed or ink used.  GreenGraffiti is not just carbon neutral, they are actually carbon NEGATIVE, compensating for 150% of their carbon footprint.  They even invest in a water harvesting project for each liter of water they use.

Pretty cool marketing tactic huh? What do people think of this idea?

Update: Domino’s has uploaded some video of the GreenGraffiti teams putting the logos in place:

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Via FoodBeast.

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the BA-K-47, a 1:1 scale AK-47 made out of bacon. It took a total of eight hours to create, a lot of bacon, and a blowtorch… oh yeah, and our good friend beer helped too.

Damn. That’s quite the weekend bacon project. Check it out below, and head over to their site to see additional pictures.

H/T to Slanch Report.

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(Click on bracket to see a larger, easier to read version)

There are no rules and no criteria other than to answer the question: “What is the #1 meat?” You can base your vote on taste, cost, convenience, prestige, flavor…anything you want.  Just like the NCAA tournament, when a team from the East coast will randomly get sent into the Western bracket, there are a couple minor exceptions with our regions.  For example, Rabbit has been placed in the Poultry Region and the “Red” Meat Region contains a few reddish meats that technically aren’t actually red meat (Lamb, Veal, Venison).

Obviously March is the time of year when people do brackets for everything – and So Good is no exception. I don’t know if something like Meat Madness has been done before, but this is certainly the debut offering of such a tournament on So Good.  There are similar brackets going on right now, such as Washingtonian’s Burger Bracket to determine the best burger in DC.

On Wednesday we will begin voting on our first round match-ups. Two first round match-ups a day for 8 days, then we move on to the second round.  Finally, thanks must be given to one of my readers, Jenelle, who suggested this idea to me 4-5 months ago.  I’ve patiently been sitting on the idea until the NCAA tournament arrived (which was really tough because I LOVE the idea of  a Meat Madness bracket!).

Click “Read More” to see each Region up close and read a little analysis of some of the early match-ups we have to look forward to.

We have four regions, “Red” Meat Region, Poultry Region, Pork Region and Seafood Region. Let’s take a look at each one.

First up, the “Red” Meat region.  Steak (1), Lamb (2), Ground Beef (3) and Veal (4) are the top 4 seeds in this bracket, and I think there is no doubt that Steak and Ground Beef are forces to be reckoned with.  Will Lamb be able to protect its #2 seed? Or will Corned Beef present a threat in the midst of Lent?  Veal and Buffalo could be an interesting first round match-up as well.

The Poultry region presents us with a wide-range of tasty birds – plus Rabbit.  The top four seeds are Chicken (1), Turkey (2), Duck (3) and Rabbit (4).  Will the more widely used and readily available Chicken and Turkey prove impossible to stop? Or will advocates emerge for more tasty alternatives?

The Pork Region sees a bevy of 8 different meats all coming from the same animal.  The top 4 seeds are Bacon (1), Sausage (2), Prosciutto (3) and Ham (4).  Yes, I am aware that Prosciutto IS Ham, but we are going by the English definition here.  According to Wikipedia, “in English the word is almost always used for an aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served uncooked.”  Bacon has proven to be the darling of the food blogosphere in the past year, but this bracket is stacked from top to bottom. Potential upsets abound with extremely strong lower seeds in Pulled Pork (5), Pepperoni (6) and Ribs (7).

The Seafood Region is just that – seafood.  The top 4 seeds are Lobster (1), Scallops (2), Salmon (3) and Tuna (4).  Like the Pork Region, this region has depth – Crab (6) and Shrimp (5) look like potential first round sleepers, and Clams (8) and Mussels (7) both certainly have their supporters.

Voting on first round match-ups will begin on Wednesday.  Use the comments on this post to predict potential first round upsets, your pick to win the title, or any debates over seeding.  Let the Meat Madness begin!

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This is from a series of photos on Flickr called Obento! from the user kickintheheadcomic who notes that these are cute lunches made by his/her girlfriend for lunches.  The collection of photos features some really cool ones, so check it out.

But even more interesting, the aforementioned girlfriend/bento box creator has a blog.  Over at anna the red’s bento factory you can read step-by-step instructions for how to create various characters, images etc. for a bento box.  For example, the most recent two posts show you how to make Yoshi and Mario mushrooms.

Good stuff, and an awesome niche blog. Definitely go check it out.

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via neatorama

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It’s made by Electrolux, and has four separate compartments, essentially giving each roomie their own fridge.  I like the design and the idea is certainly innovative- but there are a couple of caveats.  This fridge does a great job of compartmentalizing, but each section is so little… could you fit all your stuff in there?  Also when I had roomates we usually only had one carton of milk, one thing of eggs, one stick of butter,etc, etc.  We purchased these on a rotating basis so as not to let things go bad.

I’m up in the air on this one.  On the one hand; great gimmick and cute design, on the other it’s a little pointless.  Whatever happened to everyone getting their own shelf or just respecting each others food – I mean it’s not like these people are strangers!  They’re your roomates!  You chose to live with them.

Via Yumsugar.

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“Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.“

H/T to Serious Eats and Boing Boing. Also, be sure to visit the filmmakers official Food Fight site.

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Well by yesterday morning, the story had migrated from the internet to the airwaves, as radio stations across America, Canada and New Zealand were reporting on the story, and even quoting facts on-air from my post.

So far I have confirmation that the story was discussed and reported on by the following radio stations:

ZM 91.3 – New Zealand
94.3 KILO – Colorado Springs, Colorado
89X – Detroit, Michigan
97.9 WGRD – Grand Rapids, Michigan
96.5 – Philadelphia, PA
Chom 97.7 – Montreal, Canada
101x – Austin, TX
CJ92 – Calgary, Alberta
102.1 The Edge – Toronto, Canada
95X FM – Syracuse, NY
92.5 WBWI – West Bend, Wisconsin
97.1 FM Talk – St. Louis, Missouri
XL93 – Grand Forks North Dakota
95.3 Kelly FM -Bakersfield, California

The story was also picked up by The National Post of Toronto, Canada and I have heard reports that the story was on the local TV news in both Boston and North Carolina.

I’d just like to take this moment to say thank you to all my readers, both new and old. As someone who works in new media and the internet, it is tremendous fun to see moments like this, where a blogger can break a story and then see it spread to the mainstream media. None of this would be possible without my loyal readers who share this blog with their friends and help spread the word. If you know of any other radio or TV stations that reported on this story, please let me know by using the “Contact Me” button on the top right of the site!

Thanks everyone!

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The product is already sold out over at Firebox.com.

This product has the dual benefit of making your breasts look larger while simultaneously letting you get drunk while still saving money at the bar. Plus, if your male target for the evening is drinking at the same pace as you, by the time you finish the booze stashed in your breasts, he should be getting just drunk enough to no longer be aware that your chest size has shrunk from a C to a B cup.

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Or this one from Random Good Stuff, which is part of the Gum Blondes collection by Jason Kronewald. Yep, that entire “painting” is made with bubble gum on a wood backing.

Pretty Cool.

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