Here’s the latest addition to my Falls photo collection. These are all aerosol cans I’ve come across in the last several months and photographed. It’s interesting to me to see what kinds of things need to be pressurized in a convenient throw away container. As you will see…it ranges from food to poison.
Let’s start with something that’s light and edible! Whipped cream is always popular as a topping for various desserts!
If cream hangs around long enough it may eventually become cheese! You can spray these on your crackers and bread.
I wonder if the contents are really worth screaming about?
If you are stuck on the road with a flat tire…you can try this. A friend of mine trying a similar product said it worked. Anyway, there’s more than few dead tires still hanging around the Falls.
Here’s another automotive product in a pressurized can…it’s deep penetrating foam cleaner.
And now, for another fine automotive care product with a colorful name.
In the constant front line war against insects and other unlikable arthropods come these tools. First, a broad spectrum insecticide…
…and one targeted to the mosquitoes who seem to thrive wherever people call home.
Here are a few cans who pressurized contents are designed to improve the quality and freshness of the air. In this valley, we need lots of these.
To keep the air under your armpits fresh and dry…you can try this.
If your carpets are starting to look and smell pet worn, try this product kept fresh by adding snow and ice.
After studying this can, I’m still not sure what you do with this product?
Considering how popular graffiti art is in this area, I’m surprised that I haven’t come across more garden variety spray paint cans.
I guess I never considered what to use to clean my silk flowers before. Now I know and that there is a commercial need for this product.
I don’t know what this is too! I think it saying “bonus size” caught my attention and camera.
I can remember when filling one’s cigarette lighter with butane was an improvement over using a regular lighter with lighter fluid.
This should maybe be placed with the other poisons meant to destroy the other forms of smaller life on this planet.
Hey, it’s not a party until the “Goofy String” shows up! This is a more economical alternative to the better know “Silly String”. I’ll try to add more interesting cans as they show up at the Falls of the Ohio.
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These are fascinating Al! Some of them are not only useless when they were new (Goofy String? – what is it? and how have I ever lived without it?) I’ve never seen disinfectant in a pressurised can before either.
Unbelievable how these pressurised can end in the river, surely they will never rot or erode away?
Great collection Al! More please!
Goofy string and products like this are used to decorate people, places, and things with a chemical “string” that sprays out of the pressurized can. Now that I think about it…it’s a hard thing to explain! Presenting these cans as a collection helps you to notice them. I thought the “Contents Under Pressure” idea said something about the state of our civilization.
And we are not to be concerned about millions of barrels of oil in the gulf anymore? These cans are numerous and collecting on the river’s shore and we have trash collection. How come I don’t believe the oil is gone because we had skimmers? Good post, Al.
Well, a lot of the oil is still under the water. It’s subject to washing ashore particularly after storms for years to come. With these cans, I wonder if the jobs created producing these objects isn’t more important than the product itself? Obviously what the river has presented here is a lot of stuff that we don’t really need.