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To promote their new television show, Covert Affairs, UK channel Really hid a woman in a vegetable stand. Painted by artist Carolyn Roper, the patient young veggie lady is part of a series of people camouflaged to blend into their urban surroundings.
So, if you’re anywhere in London, watch where you sit, or make sure that your lettuce isn’t a thigh.
[via 22 Words]
Vegetable bugs were created by BBDO Moscow for an ad series for Greenpeace. Titled “Do you know what you eat?” the ads look to educate consumers about genetically-modified foods. Apparently the DNA of genetically-modified plants may contain the genes of insects, animals, or even viruses [yum] urging you to keep an eye out for “GMD-free” labels, and yadda, yadda, Carrot Scorpion!!!
[via My Modern Met]
If you haven’t been keeping score of late, the mental midgets of the US Congress recently declared that pizza — more specifically the tomato paste within — is equal to a serving of vegetables. To mock this decision justly, internet song-a-day artist Jonathan Mann composed the song Pizza Is A Vegetable.
[link, via Laughing Squid]