Firefox Bus
While coming from Mysore, we suddenly saw a big Firefox logo pasted on a bus. We stopped the car and and stopped the bus which was about to leave and took these photographs. I wonder if the artist knew where the logo came from 🙂
This is the big logo behind the bus
I like the way they have put the fox and the globe around the wheel.
Few more pictures
For those of you who think this is a photoshop job, check out these images by noelladsa
Re: the 3rd world
Did you see the other pictures of the bus, idjut?
this takes me back..good old india 🙂 saw something similar but it seemd to be a user ad on someones car (window sticker)
???
What makes you think so ??
I’ve already got forwarded e-mail about this! This is spreading like wildfire alright!
Not a bad job at all considering he had to work from probably an image as small as this:-
Re: the 3rd world
There is a big difference between India and Ethiopia!
I live in Thailand and there is a huge craze here for airbrushing tour buses – everything from Nemo to Ragnarok leaves the Khao San Road area every day bound for all the backpacker areas of Thailand. I’ve never been to India, but I would tend to believe that there are enough people with money there to afford the same sort of thing – it tends to be a polarized country with hundreds of millions of dirt poor, a few fabulously wealthy and an emerging middle class – no?
Oztaurus
Wow
Thanks for putting up the photographs of firefox bus. Makes me proud to be an Indian. I will put up a photograph on my blog, if you don’t mind, and link to your blog. — Raju Bathija (Blog: http://rajubathija.blogspot.com/)
Re: the 3rd world
there is no way in hell a bus driver in the 3rd world would stop so people can take pictures. They would curse at you in another language for being white & naive.
Btw this blogger is very indian..just in case you missed that.
Re: Wow
Yikes!
I wanna hire that airbrush artist (or Photoshop artiste)! Here in Japan we pay real money for what folks who just wankin’ in the R.O.W. aka “Real World”. 🙂
Taro, at groundzero Tokyo news.3Yen.com
Photoshopped or not
It looks realistic. A artisit have painted this bus. Good job to. You can do real god paint job on cars and buses. I know, I used to paint graffiti almost 20 years now and i have done som great car jobs to beside the walls.
/AceOne, Sthlm, Sweden
Re: the 3rd world
These pictures are taken in India, not ethiopia you moron.
why?.. Geographically it has great landscapes. Had any bad experience there?:)
amazing..
reality is, I agree, as one perceives it…but to say that something is not real when two photographers have snapped it is…unreal!
I am just amazed by the storm this has created..!Haven’t we all seen the Disney and other logos painted randomly on trucks? All those who haven’t, need to take a few road trips in India.
Re: Photoshopped or not
Oh yeah, it is even linked in PinoyTechBlog.
Re: the 3rd world
As they told you before… you… sir… are an asshole
I readed your post and i told to myself “how in the world can be such an idiot… AN RACIST”
All i wanted to say was ¬¬
Sorry about the curse xD
Link
Sorry for linking to another page… but there i expose various reason why this isn’t a Photoshop
Link: http://foro.hardgame2.com/index.php?showtopic=53502
Everything is in Spanish because i’m from Argentina and the forums is from Spain… so just look at the pictures and try to figure it out why i’v done a circle there…
If you want me to translate it… i’ll do it for you 😀
Maybe the bus was first…
Re: Authenticor photoshopped?
Edges can be crisp in printing… thats why its expensive, if you get the job done right it looks like the .jpg, but just huge… and on a bus.
Bus
From the Registration number it looks like its a Bangalore Registered ( KA-51). Most of these buses are built in Karoor and paint job also gets completed there. This is from my basic knowledge of transport industry.
way to go dear FF
kalyan,
great snaps !! people are giving free publicity knowingly/unknowingly
for our dear FireFox. definitely its VERY GOOD browser today we have.
Kudos FireFox.
do we update on spreadfirefox.com abt this ?
comments…
this is the 123rd comment…
Kalyan, I am used to seeing large quantities of comments on your blog…but 122 comments and a controversy is a record of sorts!
…or did you photoshop and airbrush all the comments too?
Yahoo! Bus
I’ve seen something quite similar here in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Where there was a Dala-Dala (local busses) with the Yahoo! logo on the back of the car. Wonder if the guys accross the pond knows about this 🙂
The original scalable version is not hard to find.
It’ll render at a smallish size in Firefox itself, so here it is loaded into an SVG editor.
I cant believe Mozilla Org would steal a logo from a bus company in India.
Mainstream now!!
You made cNet!!!!!!!
http://news.com.com/2061-11200_3-6063984.html?part=rss&tag=6063984&subj=news
Firefox Bus
Give me a HO if you’ve got your funky bus fare
HO, HO, HO, HO
There’s a Firefox bus comin’ down the street
Movin pretty fast
So kinda shuffle your feet
Get on the bus there is no fare
And tell the driver that you’re
Goin’ to an Open Source Affair
Fe Fi Fo Fum
Well I’ll be darn here it comes
The Firefox Bus is on the street
You’d better get off the curb
Move your feet
Free and Open Source
That’s the way my money lasts
Ain’t got no Windows to get around
When I surf the web I’ve gotta go Linux
Now I’ve missed spyware
That’s a darn shame
When I’m running late no sleep’s to blame
If you’ve got high-speed you know I’m right
Gotta special torrent well I can understand
Uptown, downtown everybody’s getting down
Say uptown say downtown
Well I’ve missed my bus I know I’m late
I’ve gotta do something I know I hate
I’m gonna walk to work fifteen blocks
I already got a hole in my socks
Go ahead and laugh that’s okay
Cause what I really wanna say
I got bad feet my corns hurt
To top it off I’m lost for work
Let me tell you what I say
When I’m dealing with the funky sidewalk
Let me show you how to walk
When I gotta do my funky walk
Let me tell you what I say
When I’m dealing with the funky sidewalk
I say sssssssss-sugar
(Rep with children)
Bip, bomp, bam alakazam
But only when you’re grooving
With the Firefox Man
Turn on your ‘puter don’t forget your joe
Cause I know I’m gonna see you
At my Firefox Show
Rebecca, Lolita, Veshawn and Dawn
Everytime you run Firefox you really turn it on ‘
Bilzarbra, Mitzery, Milzetty, Kilsan
Titzommy, Kitzerrance, Kilzommy that’s my man
Come on get on my Firefox Bus
(The Firefox Bus)
Let me hear you say do that
(Do that)
Let me hear you say Do that again
(Do that again)
Let me hear you say do the do
Let me hear you say do the do the do
Do the do, do do do do do
Found you by a random search and by way of CNet.
Congratulations, so are you going to be paid a tidy sum by Mozilla from all this marketing or get a snazzy browser named after you?
Re: the 3rd world
that’s the stupidest -ish i’ve heard in a while. my people are from kenya and they do this stuff all the time. a matatu (bus/taxi exactly like the one in that pic) had a MINNESOTA LICENSE PLATE painted on it because my uncle shipped his car there and kept the plates. someone saw them as he was driving around town one day, noted that it was different and might make their taxi standout (so as to attract passengers) and painted their bus like a frikkin license plate.
check ur self about calling anywhere 3rd world too u moron.
to be honest u sound naive, u sound like u think ur cool and enlightened cause u went to africa. save ur words next time.
it’s a good paint job.
One way to tell it’s real is due to the reflections in this one http://pics.livejournal.com/kalyan/pic/00005259
wouldn’t of been worth the effort.
Whoever painted it has good can control, and a nice fading technique. Nice to see firefox in the graffiti form. Planning on doing a few pieces using the logo myself.
very nice photos. A happy blue bus with happy people going to happy places
Believe it or not, the bus was hired out by a wedding party that day 🙂
I wish. It would be great if they can send a t-shirt to the guy who painted th bus 🙂
Ha ha ha
Re: way to go dear FF
I have been travelling since I’ve made this post. So now that I’m back in town, will send it off to the firefox/moz folks 🙂
Re: Firefox Bus
a Very nice song indeed 🙂
Pure Photoshop
Unless someone can tell me how you end up with ladder shadows on the windows but none on the paint, IMO it is clearly Photoshop. Also, magnified in Photoshop there are tell-tales like perfectly straight lines that would not be perfect on a real bus. Nice job though.
-Allen Wicks
very cool
very cool! i like it! 🙂 i say it’s authentic. busses nowadays are anything but boring
Re: Pure Photoshop
If you can’t see ladder shadows, then you haven’t looked hard enough.
Go and look again.
– Nirendra
Amazing! Cool bus! FireFoxBus ))
Oh, man, here in Ukraine we have so many cellophane packets with Linux logotype(especially Caldera Linux)!!! Nobody knows who is the creator of this. I have a pair of it, I’ll check and give a link 🙂
Its a mirror.
Its a mirror.
http://www.jobs.co.in/
Hasn’t anyone noticed the number plate?
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Hey Kalyan! Well I added you… 😀 hehe!
wwwwwwwwwwwow!
its teh firefox bus!
shadows?
Am I the only one to wonder where the ladder-shadows went?
-the ladder is obviously closer to the bus side then to the glass windows themself
but still I belive there should be atleast a slight shadow on the bus-sides to?
and http://buzz.bazooka.se/ http://buzz.bazooka.se/Redir.aspx?ID=22525
cool pics
kalyan this bus goes through my hometown mangalore.
painting buses is not new in karnataka.find something interesting pics paint them in karur,tamilnadu and run the buses in karnataka.
i think u will find croca,tigers,lord krishna ….
but i have not spotted a sachin,sehwag bus.
i dont think firefox has anything to do with it
spastis
muuuuh uhr stinkt ^^
und der bus ist gay -.-
Re: Authenticor photoshopped?
Some idiots (must be americans) seem to think that the buss pictures are retouched in Photoshop. That’s so lame. This is a normal thing in Asia. I’ve seen bussesn in Thailand with the most amaizing airbrush paintings, and THAT every day.
Thanks for the correction. I had actually named it ‘throated’, but in writing the comment, I wrote it down as browed 🙂