Volkswagen Tiguan, 'Lane Assist' the ghost in the machine!

imagine a so-called safety feature, that you have no idea is fitted to your car. You are driving along and arterial road or a motorway and your car suddenly decides it's going to lurch one way or another, for all the world as though some kind of unseen forces taken charge of it. Welcome to the not so fun-aplenty world of Volkswagen "Lane Assist." It's scary when your car seems to have developed a mind of its own and it scared the living daylights out of my wife! This is a feature that you cannot permanently turn off. If you can be bothered to fiddle about with the unnecessarily convoluted internal menu system, of the car, then you can turn the lane nanny off every time you get in the car and want to drive anywhere. As you might expect, you can complain to Volkswagen until you're blue in the face and this will probably get you nowhere at all. However, I couldn't resist toying with some imagery, ending up by conflating two well-known images together (see below)!

Blind Campaign Logo (?)

a few days ago I thought about something that might seem silly, at first, if you thought about it from a purely blind perspective. Why on earth would campaign efforts on the part of blind people need anything like a logo? Of Grohl, its visual representation. Why would a group of people who either can't see it all, all have difficulty seeing, need imagery of any kind? The answer was a simple one (at least from my perspective), imagery was a successful way of convincing other people of your objectives and it occurred to me that it didn't necessarily matter (that much) if everybody in the campaign could see what we were using as imagery. So it was, that I sat down and using my huge monitor screen set about designing the logo that you can see (or not) below. If you've logged on here and you are unable to see the image, then I'll describe it. It is three blind figures, all in silhouettes and all walking left to right. In the lead is a small boy, with a cane, behind him is a woman with a cane and following those two is a guy with a guide dog. There is a slogan underneath reads "We See a Future" and that's about it. I'm posting this on this blog site in the hope that the image may get picked up by Google and get used by blind groups, for the exact purpose that I designed it. Obviously, throwing open to public use in this way means that I don't care to try to make any money out of this.

BORIS FLIES THE FLAG

It does seem as though Boris Johnson never goes anywhere without a really big flag behind him! There's nothing quite like wrapping yourself in the flag, especially at a time of national crisis, when people feel less like being critical of pushing the national identity thing. Of course, having the flag behind you is not a new idea and so here's an old suggestion, based on a system of government that rose to power during a national crisis!