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Posted on 09.30.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:55 am
Now we know why those town halls of August were so hostile. The angry mobs were high on caffeine from pumping Starbucks coffee into their bodies. The ad strikes me as a smart play by Starbucks. It pokes gentle fun at enlightened rednecks who know how to laugh at themselves. As Allahpundit said at Hot Air: “Mediaite does its best to stoke some outrageous outrage but I’m not feeling it. What’s ‘risky’ about this? If they had the guy carrying an AR-15 or an “Obama = Hitler” sign, that would be one thing, but only in Nancy Pelosi’s tender mind does shouting indicate [Timothy] McVeigh-ish radicalism.” Filed under: Advertising and Business and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.10.09 by Danny Glover @ 5:26 pm
Back in the mid-1990s, a freaky, animated “dancing baby” became an online sensation after it was circulated by e-mail. It’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw this new video advertising Evian bottled water under the slogan “Live Young“: I haven’t decided yet whether I’m more or less likely to buy Evian now, but odds are good that despite my bad memory I forever remember Evian as the company that gave the world roller babies. And yes, real babies were used in the making of the video: Filed under: Advertising and Business and Food and Human Interest and Music and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.18.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:10 am
The misguided emotional message of this anti-gun advocacy ad misses it’s mark — you can’t “stop the bullets” or “kill the gun” as long as there are criminals in the world — but the slow-motion imagery of bullets exploding fruit, bottles and other products is something all gun-lovin’ rednecks can enjoy: Filed under: Advertising and Hunting & Guns and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 03.30.09 by Danny Glover @ 11:37 pm
How’d ya like to see four of college basketball’s top coaches in their underwear, like Tom Cruise in “Risky Business“? Yeah, me neither. But I saw it anyway when Knoxville, Tenn., blogger Michael Silence posted it. He’s right; it is a funny ad — for the new video game “Guitar Hero: Metallica.” I didn’t listen to much heavy metal music in its heyday, and I won’t play the game. But the ad to promote it gets an “A” for creativity. Filed under: Advertising and Business and Just For Laughs and People and Sports and Video Comments: None |
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