Tag: Advertising
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RC 243: Aural pOddities 4: Aryan Dogs, Acid Chickens & A Blind Man’s Penis
(collage – ‘Broadcast Your Sound Judgement / Servicing Audio’ 2013) Oh dear – what have you done to deserve this? Another dose (in the chloroform/over sense) of strange songs, outsider music, song poems, aural terrorism and just plain wrongness. Big thanks go to Junk Shop Juke Box, Music for Mentalists (Bevis Frond), Music for Maniacs,…
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Scary adverts
Came across the above advert via 4chan then had a little Google for more. Turns out 1940’s and 1950’s adverts and earlier, while being archaic are also really odd. I mean scary. And really bad for your health…especially DuPont and their frankly psychotic Cellophane ads – were they high on the plastic smell? I could…
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Follow Your Dreams – CANCELLED
Hot on the heels of sharply funny/true/sad The Onion article Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life which many of my creative friends have been forwarding to each other with a mix of sadness and humour, is this Banksy artwork via Redshift.…
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Down at Maggie’s Content Farm: How greed is killing music journalism
I’m sure someone will point out the exceptions, but this article about how the background strings of corporate music blogging (how my fingers even hate to write that term, but sadly has existed for years) is killing music journalism. Yes a sensationalist title, but I’ve noticed the constant drip of ‘Top Ten Singles By Some…
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Advertising is evil
Having worked in agencies for years I know this – soul destroying, depressing and incredibly cynical or deluded. Hence why I don’t work in that industry anymore. But if you need proof, check out Sharp Suits, an Irish exhibition where designers taking actual phrases and turning them into posters. A creative act for such uncreative…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…