Badlands guardian in canada1/3/2024 ![]() This supposedly ‘naturally created’ land formation that looks like the facial profile of a Native American looks much closer to what a real Native American’s facial and bone structure would look like, even to this day. 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. They altered the suggested ‘Guardian of the Badlands’ to become Badlands Guardian.I have no idea why Apple Computers did not take this image and market their music players with. ![]() Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. Originally discovered by Lynn Hickox, suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. It was the winner of the RTNDA National- TV – short feature award for that year. ![]() In 2006 Medicine Hat’s CHAT-TV Reporter Dale Hunter did a short feature on the Badlands Guardian. Although the image appears to be a positive feature, it is actually a negative feature (a valley). The ‘head’ may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which has been in place only a few years, and will likely become invisible once the well falls into disuse and its superficial features are eroded. Because of additional man-made structure, it also appears to be wearing earphones. Viewed from the air, the feature bears a strong resemblance to a human head wearing a full native American headdress. The Badlands Guardian is a geomorphological feature near Medicine Hat in the south east corner of Alberta, Canada.
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