When someone introduces a useless idea (or one that is narrow in scope) on the Internet, it gets linked, picked, praised, talked about till the transformation from a phenomena to sheer bullshit is complete.
I am taking about Wolfram Alpha. Because among other places, it has been talked about here , here and here.
I have heard [...]
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Of search, bird sex and a remarkably fast journey of becoming a verb.
Posted in Internet, Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, rants, tagged bird sex, brands becoming verbs, How birds have sex?, Wolfram Alpha on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Meanwhile, un-neglected child models are wrapped and made to sniff glue
Posted in cynical pov, tagged advertising child abuse, Australian Childhood Foundation, JWT Melbourne on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Australian Childhood Foundation has done a “creative” poster. I am assuming it’s from JWT Melbourne. And I’m also assuming this is not fake. Because I do want to live in a world, where the love of awards makes an advertising agency convince a Childhood Foundation to do this to a child.
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WSJ – Dope we can believe in
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, rants, tagged baseball, obama, steriods, Wall street journal on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life has been difficult for WSJ for years now. It was taken over by a mongrel from Down Under, conservatism committed suicide, McCain chose Palin, Tax cuts suddenly stopped being the be-all end-all cure for economic messes and even the words on its mast head ‘Wall Street’ fell down a notch below ‘Crack Whore’ in [...]
Recession Advertising Fun
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, tagged best buy sarcastic ad, recession advertising fun on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not sure if this is real, but this kick ass is awesome. Because Circuit City always sucked. And this is the funniest price war ad I have seen in a while. Via
Bag a blonde to stop slave trade
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, rants, tagged Amnesty International Germany on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Must you indulge in scam ads too, Amnesty? Apparently, the German arm of Amnesty International is very concerned about slave trade. So concerned that they did this in an airport, you know, to stop slave owners from picking up their slaves.
Extra points for sending a photographer to document the guy who was documenting this.
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And in the absolute world…
Posted in cynical pov, tagged Absolut advertising, billboard on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This billboard won’t make any sense, since, if everyone knows the winning numbers, everyone will buy the same ticket and no one will be absolutely or absolutly happy about it.
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WTF BK?
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, tagged Burger King, whopper virgins on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Burger King has done some superb stuff with it’s King mascot and the whopper freak-out videos were priceless in terms of marketing excellence. So I was eagerly looking forward to their latest effort, which will be fully released later this week. But the preview of it leaves me just confused.
The premise is this – BK [...]
Chalk Shadows
Posted in cynical pov, images, interactive on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Artist Michael Neff goes around town when the sun is shining and does his thing – he outlines shadows with surprisingly beautiful results.
You can find his entire chalk work HERE. And this is how he does it.
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J C Penny puts men in the doghouse and women in the nuthouse
Posted in cynical pov, tagged beware of the dog house, Budweiser greeting card ads, Holiday ads, J C Penny, J C Penny dog house on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the season for holiday adverts and so far none has done it better worse than J C Penny. Apparently, inappropriate gift giving is now a privilege only enjoyed by children, women, parents, friends – basically every fringe group except men, 18-49.
Just in the previous post, I was lamenting the inherent [...]
Gender Analyzer: An Analysis
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, tagged Gender Analyzer on November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gender Analyzer is a new web service that is annoying, pointless and useless. The premise is simple and has absolutely no value – you enter your blog or a website and it gives you the gender of its author. How or what goes into the analysis is not explained.
I decided to check two of the [...]
Things that make me wonder…
Posted in cynical pov, lighter side on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does God allow these people to lose their soul every time there is an election?
This priceless headline is from The Guardian.
A bank finds a reason to laugh
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, tagged advertising in financial crisis, Chase, gallows humor, McGarryBowen NY, TBWA LA, Wamu on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hey! Say you are a multi-zillion lazy West Coast bank that for years ran a whole set of ads that threw stones at fat white banks and bankers that made no sense.
And say for years you messed up in money management buying toxic waste without realizing that if you buy an acid that can burn [...]
Contextual advertising targets Republicans
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, tagged contextual ads gone wrong, sarah palin on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
McCains veep, Sarah Palin, has attracted some media attention usually reserved for…well hypocritical social conservatives. Liberal bloggers are having a field day, ofcourse. While Palin’s own pregnancy is under scrutiny, she announced her teenage daughter is preggers too. As I saw this report of Huffington Post, I really wasn’t too interested in this issue, till [...]
Also at Saatchi & Saatchi, Singapore it takes 11 people to screw a light bulb…
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, tagged advertising plagerism, anti ageing cream ads, Olay stop the clock, Racco Cosmeticos, Saatchi & Saatchi, Singapore on August 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While I was drunk surfing, I came across this ad for Olay anti-ageing cream…
And this monstrosity…
Did it seriously take 11 people to create one ad? And this is not even a campaign, just a single photoshop horror. So, is this really the case? Or could it be that one junior creative came up with this [...]
Dear Ketel One…
Posted in cynical pov, lighter side, tagged Ketel One on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can you please explain this ad?
Do your customers have a hard time seeing a 4 ft. bottle? And if so, how can they read your headline?
Even though I wasn’t a fan, I could at least understand the earlier Ketel One ads where the campaign had an elitist tone and aimed for the upmarket clientele. But [...]
Honda Whooosh
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, tagged Honda Accord Whooosh, Honda Whooosh on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How does it feel when you take your new Honda Accord for a drive? It feels like flying, of course. I am glad Honda doesn’t make passenger flights, then it would feel like you just have been shot into space.
By DraftFCB Melbourne. Via
That Balloon Spot
Posted in cool stuff, cynical pov, tagged the balloon, tiji on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DDB Paris has a new tv spot, a two minute ad for Tiji children’s tv station. The spot looks beautiful. Trouble is…
…for an ad that talks about imagination, the script looks too ‘inspired’ by Le Ballon Rouge.
Of hidden cameras, data collection and loss of sweet innocence.
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, tagged data collection advertising, digital billboard trends, hidden billboard cameras on June 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Introducing billboards with hidden cameras that are equipped to , as this Times article reports “gather details about passers-by — their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard. These details are transmitted to a central database.”
Disturbing as it is, the whole article is less critical of this trend. I can [...]
A bloody battle to invade the little privacy we have left.
Posted in Online advertising, Online privacy, cynical pov, interactive, tagged battle for online advertising, ISPs as advertisers, Online privacy, Phorm, privacy battle on May 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In an article titled ‘The Mother of All Privacy Battles‘, The New York Times talks about a new trend in online advertising. For long, Internet Service Providers were happy to provide the connection and collect a monthly charge. And for long, they have gawked at companies like Google that has made billions by posting search-relevant [...]
Is there any hope for Internet Meme’s beyond cats with bad spelling and grammar?
Posted in cynical pov, tagged branding, digital advertising, interactive, internet memes, meme, web plus on April 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“A meme can be just about any form of non-genetic information transmitted from person to person: a word, a song, an attitude, a religious belief, a mealtime ritual, an engineering concept.” – Robert Wright, NONZERO – The Logic Of Human Destiny.
Ever since Britain’s World’s angriest atheist invented the idea/phrase meme in 1976 (Yes, it’s been [...]
McDonald’s laconically summarizes the US school system
Posted in cynical pov, tagged McDonald's, subway posters, US primary school system on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
