Yup, they are even marketing with the clouds. It appears a special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big as 4 feet across and shaped like corporate logos. His name for the product: “Flogos“. A Flogo machine works a little like a Play-Doh Fun Factory: A boxlike contraption produces a specially formulated white foam in a big round tub and forces it upward through a stencil. Once the foam is several inches thick, a metal cutter slices it and a faux cloud floats into the sky. The foam is mostly water, air/helium, and a soapy agent that creates bubbles. A single Flogo can travel as far as 30 miles and as high as 20,000 feet, and a machine can produce one every 15 seconds. The company is working on a version that will spit out 6-foot clouds. Whether they will be a commercial success is unknown.
View the demo. It’s creepy.
To me, this is yet another example of corporate culture and marketing taking over the world. I think Stan Freberg predicted this many years ago. If there’s a blank space on it, expect there to be advertising. After all, advertising is the American way!
