Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Worst Album Covers of All Time
click here to see the covers and read the history behind their making:
Breakwater
Splashdown
In the late 1970s, SC Johnson Wax, Inc. created an imaginary team of hard-scrubbing superjanitors to promote its line of industrial urinal cleaners. In a pilot commercial, the team magically shrunk, flew into a distressed urinal basins, and attacked the sticky mess. After completing the mission, the team, dubbed "Breakwater," posed like big game hunters in their urine-stained boots, chillin' on the sparkling porcelain for a victory shot.
SC Johnson went so far as cutting a promotional album for the fictional band of janitors, until test marketing showed it skewed "too urban." Breakwater was soon replaced with the Scrubbing Bubbles-- the now-iconic moustachio'd Greek pac men who "work hard, so you don't have to." This deeply offended Greek-Americans, but SC Johnson Wax stated they could "live without the demographic."
Monday, November 14, 2005
Some Enchanted Evening
Who says my parents never get out of the house? a picture of them dancing at my father's reunion.
