Now, take a look at the Badlands face in the Google Maps and compare it with a real Native American. They got the right idea, but in 1908, the idealization of human beauty was not Native American, it was classical European. It looks more like a Greek or Roman model wearing the feathered headgear of a Native American. Look at the nose and the chin on the penny.

In fact, the only difference is that the head on the penny doesn’t really look like a Native American. The Guardian actually looks like an Indian head that you find on old pennies like this one.

One cannot expect to garner such snazzy marketing strategies from a land formation created approximately 70 million years old years ago by those whose main objective is not to sell a product that was not going to be around for very long. I think it is because the Badlands Guardian just doesn’t have that hot fresh newness to him that Apple needs to project into its products. When I look at it, all I think of is the set of white ear buds to my iPhone. This lime green iPod advertisement certainly does not bring to mind the image of the dusty arid foothills of the Canadian Badlands Guardian. Well maybe they did use his image in a roundabout sort of way. They then placed a really sweet looking white road that led away from his ear, towards the main roadway so that he is now able to listen to some cool music from the Apple store. The very intricately detailed human head is obviously enjoying some music from his white Apple headphones, courtesy of someone who decided that the location where his ear happened to be was a good place to dig an exploratory oil well. I have no idea why Apple Computers did not take this image and market their music players with.

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