Sunday 22 May 2011

Forecast: Awesome-ness

In my mind I would like to open here with a nice quote that beautifully symbolised the meaning of this post, unfortunately I can’t be bothered to find one. I’m writing this now because I should be doing something else, something that really isn’t any fun. So here we are now, me and you…whoever you are. The inspiration for this comes from something that I watched the other day, something that was so bad I have no interest in alluding to what it was, as they any publicity is good publicity, so I’m not telling you. What I will tell you is this is about the weather.
           Yes that’s right it’s about the weather. The default topic of conversation for any civilised human being. What is perhaps worth comment though, is how often we actually take note of the weather. Yesterday was May 21st and according some Norman, or Mormon, or…religious moron, the world was going to end. I can confirm the world did not end. According to retard Jesus as he shall now be known, earthquakes were supposed to sweep across the planet and syphilis was to infect the planet…or something like that anyway. As I mentioned, I can confirm I don’t have syphilis. I digress. The weather. Right now it’s really quite blustery, with showers and broken cloud…its fucked up is what I’m trying to say. Even though the weather is often discussed, forecasts and such, how often do we really appreciate how damn cool the weather and the climate and such really are, they’re really cool (no pun intended). So next time you look up to see if it’s going to rain, appreciate how amazing it is. By the way if you don’t get why the weather is just an amazing thing, id suggest you go watch American Beauty or some shit like that, because if you can’t appreciate how awesome the weather is, you’re simply just not human.           
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Sunday 15 May 2011

Mad Men, Women and Children

It's been a little while since my last post and I'll explain why in my usual exagerated and overly offensive way, then ofcourse the actual post-advertising (about time)!!! Anyway, it gas indeed been a while, the main reason being that iv been subjected to a number of exams. Yeah, that stale shit based time of year has come around again! The exam period is much like mother natures period, it comes round like clock work, causes much anguish and involves a shit load of red! The anguish ofcourse is self explanatory-they're exams, and the red refers to the red ink that stains so many of those inglorious answer scripts (what else would red be about?). Cutting it short, iv got a couple of weeks before my next couple of exams so I'm gona take this oppurtunity to post a little something.

Advertising has grown from the days of old, when mad men strolled round the city, dreaming of the next big idea to sell the world to God. A marvellous day has come and gone, now sadly the world has been sold, to Google that it is. Whilst I'd never speak too ill of my masters (they've been both generous in providing me with infinite email accounts and ofcourse blogger). It's really not a good idea to shit where you eat, so I'm gona be a little cautious of what I say (yes, I'm actually being cautious!). The internet has gone far beyhond the grid that jeff bridges once dreamed of, the Internet has grown to a level that no one could have ever forseen, it is beyhond anything, anyone could imagine. And the crowning glory of this global network of porn addicts (you've probably got a tab open right now), advertising!

Adverts penetrate every apect of everyday of your life. Radio, tv, newspaper, bilboard, poster, Internet, everywhere. A company can be propelled to huge success through advertising, cadbury, apple, that stupid insurance selling meerkat, advertising has become a king maker. The idea that an image can get into your head, and then persuade you to go out and buy some random...espresso machine (George Clooney is a persuasive guy), is rediculous one. But it is something we are subjected to everyday. So ofcourse what must be asked is ofcourse, what are the effects of such a bombardment?

You know the sad thing, I don't know the answer to that question. What has become apparent whilst iv been writing this is advertising has been warped into a cool and glamorous industry, with huge luxurius companies at the helm, what we are missing here though is some truth, the big question is: What would Don do?