Out of the Wilderness

WhatsApp Commercial – The Music, the Birds, and More!

WhatsApp is a messenger service owned by Facebook, or Meta, or whatever they’re called today. To promote the privacy standards in the chat app, a commercial has been produced featuring a messenger pigeon and some unsuspecting customers. Take a look then scroll down for more info…

The Music. The song used for this commercial was released way back in 1971. It’s “Can You Get To That” by Funkadelic.

The Birds. The pigeon is central to this commercial’s message. With that in mind, I present you with my gallery of bird photos for viewing pleasure! Click here for the full collection but here are a few of my favorites. All of these, and the rest of the bird photos in the collection, are available for purchase.

Thanks for flying by my blog today…

-Out of the Wilderness

Woman attacked by bison at Texas State Park

The bison roaming around Caprock State Park are big. They’re also not interested in being less wild, and I love that about them. A woman recently learned the hard way that you don’t mess with them… meaning: don’t get too close, don’t tick them off, don’t get between them and their offspring, don’t take chances. Here’s the video.

“I didn’t want to go through the bushes again.”
woman in video

Looks like she ended up in the bushes again. 😉 But seriously, when I visited this beautiful state park the ranger at the check-in office made it very clear that the bison don’t mess around. In fact, she said something I’ll never forget and definitely raised my awareness when I camped there for 5 days. I told her I have 2 dogs and she said, “The bison see them as predators, and they will remove them.”

Yikes.

I hope this woman recovers and never again underestimates a big bison grazing around with his (or her) family. I know I won’t take any chances, especially after seeing this video. I’m very grateful to have a zoom lens so I don’t need to get all up in their face. Here are a few of my favorite bison photos, all available for download or purchase. Print one out for your living room as a reminder to NOT get gored by a bison! And yes, that’s my travel trailer in the last photo. And yes, I was very nervous.

Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

Call of Duty bombs in new commercial

I was watching NFL football recently and a commercial aired for a video game. I’ll admit the chant in the ad caught my attention. I was curious about which product was being advertised so I watched to the end. Definitely didn’t expect a video game! Take a look…

The Reaction. I’m not a “gamer” nor am I their target audience (based on this ad, at least), but it doesn’t look like the commercial is going over well with CoD fans. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the YouTube comments and sum them up in 2 words: commercial sucks. I might have found 2 or 3 comments that liked it but other than those, viewers are hating it big time. Like the guy who wrote this article about his love for the game but his disappointment in the ad.

The Cast. Check here for more details of the commercial with a few quotes from the creators at Activision plus, it’s where I found a pretty good list of cast members, including:

Nicki Minaj, Lil Baby, Pete Davidson, Kane Brown, Jalen Ramsey, David Long Jr., Nuke Squad (they posted a behind the scenes video), Lando Norris, and Bukayo Saka.

US of A. This commercial plays off the military cadence “left, left, left, right left” so I thought I’d leave you with patriotic photographs from my own personal collection. These are all available for download or purchase, so if you and your squad want to decorate your fancy gaming rooms, order one today!

Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

A Few Photos of Fresh Flowers

These are photos from the last year and a half from camping and adventuring around the southeast United States. Flowers, though small, are bursting with beauty so I hope these photos captured at least a fraction of that! Thanks for checking out my photos today…

-Out of the Wilderness

Subaru Shelter Dog Commercial – The Dogs, the Music, and More!

Subaru’s established themselves as the #1 dog-loving car company. I’ve written about them before with their “Underdog” commercial and now they’re back with a special needs shelter dog ad. It’s ok to have happy tears with this one.

Are there any animals as amazing as dogs? I mean, gosh, this commercial shows great examples of pups that, to say it simply, overcome. If your heart doesn’t melt for these dogs, then you need to be taken outside and spanked! More about Subaru’s commitment to our lovable companions can be found on their website here.

The dogs. You can find out more about each of these pups on Subaru’s Meet the Underdogs page. The awesome dogs featured in this commercial are…

The Music. The song playing underneath the ad is “Time” by David Ramirez.

My amazing pups. I’ll leave you with pics of my best beagle pups, Piper and Asia. The first pic is the first day I had Piper (the one with the big ears), I brought her to Petsmart to pick up all kinds of supplies. I adopted her from Happy Tales Humane Society in Franklin, TN. The next picture is Asia (blue eyes) from her adoption profile posted on Petfinder. Asia came from Love at First Sight! in Nashville, TN. To sum up the first time I saw each of them, there was no way I was going home without them.