check out this banned xbox ad. and the slogan at the end “Life is short: Play more” thats just…ridiculous. Its true, life is short, but that means we should spend it playing video games? I disagree. Although that doesn’t seem like enough to ban it. Maybe because the guy was naked or something? What do [...]
okay you guys have to check out this mcdonalds ad. a burger for men only? really? and rainboots? this ad just has such completely blatent stereotypes of men and women passed off as normal! I really really really really don’t like it. but…maybe that just shows how much of a scrippsie i am. whatever, this [...]
haha…well…kind of. I came across this ad, its really long but its kind of cool. I liked how it was kind of a story, and i think that has a tendency to be very effective in ads, like we saw today with the island fire ad, and the condom ad, and the reduce so they [...]
I’m sure a lot of you have seen this, but incase you haven’t, here’s the link to a Dove ad that shows how ordinary people are transformed into this person used in advertising that doesn’t really exist. It takes make-up and hair styling as well as digital manipulations to make this ideal model. No wonder [...]
i was just poking around on youtube and this: There are a whole bunch of things like it. are these real ads? or are people just playing around? It seems like a huge waste of time if they aren’t real…but i guess to each his own.
I came across an ad for this site today and was reminded so much of the “Celebrities in Advertising” presentation. If you click on Hillary Duff you can see “Stuff by Hillary,” basically her clothing line from what I can tell. It also shows the music she listens to and the magazines she reads. My [...]
I was thinking about the “Future of Advertising” talk and the new banner ads online that make noise. They are quite possibly the most annoying things in the world. The talking in no way makes me want to click on them and instead makes me want to never go to the website the ad was [...]
Incase any of you were thinking about using stop motion animation for your project (like a flipbook but digital) there’s this program called iStopMotion that works well. It’s pretty sweet because you can download a week long free demo and just use it for this project if you wanted to. Just thought I’d give a [...]
So, I also have been thinking a lot about whether advertising is good or evil and I was reminded of this ad: Save Darfur Ad And I thought, without advertising and ads like this it would be difficult to let people know that organizations like Save Darfur exist. You might not even know that a [...]
I heard today from Jerry Fowler (a brilliant cmc visiting professor) that it was recently found that genetically there is no difference between Irish people and English people. I thought this was really interesting given our talks about the “kernel of truth” discussion and the blog post bellow. I’m pretty sure English and Irish people [...]