Anyone who shops carefully and thoughtfully for their food in Rome has surely noticed that the freshest fish is available in the city on Tuesdays and Fridays. This fact becomes particularly important each spring with the onset of Lent, for Catholics traditionally abstain from meat on Lenten Fridays, choosing fish instead. Thus, on this Lenten Photo Friday, it seems only appropriate to provide you with a most entertaining image of one of Testaccio’s rowdiest fishmongers. Yikes! What is that thing he’s holding?
The photo was taken last Friday by Susan Sanders at the Testaccio food market.
At first glance, this new DHL ad – “No Size Limits” – seemed familiar to us at the eCool Compound. More specifically, those carefully-kept toenails seemed like some we’d seen before, even hundreds of times, for they bear a distinct resemblance to the toenails on the Colossal Sculpture of the Roman Emperor Constantine that’s kept in Rome’s Capitoline Museums (see below). Good to know that the Emperor is picking up a few extra sesterces by doing some foot modeling.
Agency: Jung von Matt/Alster, Hamburg, Germany
Exec Creative Director: Oliver Voss
Creative Directors: Daniel Frericks & Götz Ulmer
Copywriter: Tobias Grimm
Art Director: Jens Paul Pfau
Illustrator: Florian Zwinge
Pretty much everyone knows about the horrifying and ongoing trash crisis in Naples as it’s been much covered by the international press. Now, it seems, the news has filtered all the way back to the sixteenth century and has incited such Renaissance celebrities as the Mona Lisa to action.
In protest of the smelly pileups in Naples, the Neapolitan graffiti artist, Raffo, has tasked the iconic star of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait with the job of taking out the trash. In posters painted by Raffo and distributed throughout Naples, the Mona Lisa appears against a new backdrop – the Bay of Naples surrounded by trash. Her usual demure pose – with hands carefully crossed in front of her – has been abandoned in favor of a more active position, for in her hands she clutches nationalistically-colored red and green garbage bags as if she herself is headed down to the dumpster to drop off a bit of refuse. She’ll have trouble with that, of course, because the dumpsters are already full (see image above – we’re particularly fond of the Berlusconi campaign poster hovering over the dumpster in the upper left corner of the photo).
