happy saturday, everyone! today's photo prompt is a little different. it's still a photo, as you can see, one i took while hanging out the window of our minivan (the swagger wagon!). said minivan was hovering just above the pavement with its speedometer reading a tiny, minuscule smidgen under 84 miles/hr. (if my mom is reading, no worries! that's a mere nine miles over the posted limit). i guess my husband was kind of desperate to "get there" after twelve and a half hours in the car with three kids and a wife like me. can't say i blame him.
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anyway, i've been thinking about this empty billboard just basking there in the sunshine, waiting patiently to be designed. if it was yours, what would you advertise? let's challenge ourselves and limit our word count today - describing only what could actually fit on a billboard (and still be read by a crazy woman hanging out of a speeding minivan with her camera). wind in her hair, bugs in her teeth. paint us a word picture of your very own billboard by clicking on comments below. here's mine:
The Artwork: a photo of a brilliant sunset streaming with rays of light covers the board.
On the left side cartoon kid Alexander* holds up a clear glass bottle
filled with some kind of swirly, golden substance.
He is grinning from ear to ear.
The Text:
Sunshine in a Bottle
for those Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days
taste it! smell it! wash your hair, dishes or dog with it!
just 25 cents in your grocer's produce isle
(*from the children's book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, Illustrated by Ray Cruz - both of whom, in my fantasy billboard design world, have given their wholehearted endorsement of my miraculous new product.)
can't wait to read your billboards. and, since it's the weekend and all, feel free to write a response to any of this week's photo prompts if you didn't get a chance before. i'll be so glad to read and publish for you.
