Mikey is a cartoon
Our old housemate Mikey has turned into a cartoon. Here’s cartoon Mikey coughing into a tissue, sneezing onto his shirtsleeve, and washing his hands and wearing a proud little grin on his cartoon face:
How, you ask, did Mikey turn into a cartoon? Turns out sometime last year Mikey posed for a picture for some University anti-smoking campaign. And just this week our newer housemate Christina sees a poster on campus that uses the same picture, but this time for a public health campaign called “Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases”. Here’s the picture of flesh-and-blood Mikey:
Look how they turned his “Smoking stinks” face into a “getting sick sucks” face. I guess he’s entered the U’s stock photo database in some “negative face” category. Three cheers for the designer who decided to bring Mikey to life as a cartoon.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:36 pm
When the ads for the U first started running in the Daily, we were still waxing and pasting the paper together. I fondly remember cutting out the ad, gently guiding it through the waxer, placing it precisely on the page, and slowly caressing out any bubbles, any wrinkles from Mikey’s face. He was unknown to me. And I had a crush on …. the girl from the other ad who had her nose all wrinkled-up and was wearing a white(ish) sweater with the sleeves covering her hands… oh she was cute. But really I guess it all came down to her nose. She had a really cute nose. Although, Mikey does wear his nose well.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
[…] my matey Mikey B sent me this link to The Fireladders of SoHo. I work in the SoHo area so I’m pretty familiar with - and very fond of - this cast iron district. […]