Tonight's stickers are an interesting pair. Not that I can tie them together in any way for a cohesive thought but each definitely catches your attention. Although it was the sticker on the bottom that caused me to pause and capture it. It's not every day you find a blank nutritional facts label on the side of a guard rail. I've always found the nutritional facts on the side of anything fascinating. Not because I've ever fully understood the information they pose but seeing your food broken down into it's basic components is always interesting. There's the amount of calories that are in a serving, the percentage of your daily vitamins or minerals that have somehow made it in, and how many grams of sugar that will probably help give you diabetes in the end. And even with all of this information and the FDA guidelines looking to explain the breakdown for you, I still find this to be a fairly baffling creation. I understand that the main reason this is done is to try and help consumers get a better idea about what they are ingesting, to improve their health and ability to choose wisely, I just wonder how useful it is. It was a concept that started in the early 90s here in America and has become more widely used over the past twenty years. And while our knowledge of nutrition has increased immensely over those many years, it doesn't seem like the label has changed much in that same time. Which I guess is a big part of the battle that's out to improve our society's health, finding that method that will help give us the information we need and yet let us keep our ability to choose.
I really didn't notice the upper sticker when I was correcting this photo in photoshop, it was just an odd black and white combo for a while. I kind thought it was a face of some kind but really couldn't fully see the picture. So when I was starting to look into this, I did finally see the phrase "Whats her Face." After googling it and being mildly weirded out by the fact that there was a faceless doll at the beginning of the millennium that apparently had a little traction in the market, I found out that this is a Lancaster Band. They're an electronic band that kind of reminds me of Alt-J, a very experimental sound with some deep roots in alt-rock. Whats her Face's current sticker is also an interesting image once you fully see it. It's a face, I would assume a woman's, that is covered by some gnarly man hands. Since this phrase is generally used as a way to pause and try to come up with a missing name, I thought this was a great way to symbolize that idea. Combined with their unique sound, they are a group that is always grasping at ideas that are just out of reach and looking to give you something different int he meantime.
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Maggie Ondrey
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