Since we are all sentenced to exposure to commercial ads, usually on a daily basis, perhaps I can be forgiven for dwelling on some of them. There is one currently running for windshield wipers and in it, rain falls upward, drips of water fall upward, I bet you’ve seen it too. My first viewing of it fascinated me because I always wonder how these visual tricks are accomplished. A little girl jumps in a puddle and when I saw this I knew what was about to happen, she was about to get a face full of... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Putting thousands out of work, but geting rich! Omlets require broken eggs
An interesting thought just hit me! I wonder if Madison Ave. has heard about me. A high percentage of advertisements pique my interest or make me want to reply, rebut, talk about, improve or change them. An ad that does this, accomplishes exactly what all that money was spent to accomplish. I’m the only commercial critic in captivity, as far as I know. I talk incessantly about them, write about them, in short, drive my friends nuts about them. Maybe the suits in big advertising companies did a... Sign in to see full entry.