What it Says-What it Means

What's the difference between what people, or things created by people,say and what they mean? Why is that difference often so great? This blog about media,the psychology of consumer behaviour, visual communications,and the strange cultural history of advertising will investigate what things say and what they mean and what that says about the strange strange world that is us.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Get Ready to BUY NOTHING!

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This Friday, November 28 is BUY NOTHING DAY . For 17 years environmentalists have been asking people to buy nothing on what is called Black ...
Friday, November 21, 2008

The Gifts that Keep on Giving: "The Pain train's comin"

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We first met Terry Tate, Office Linebacker in a Reebok 2003 ad during Super Bowl XXXVII. Tate's job -- givin out the pain to office s...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

On the Road to Obsolescence –a little sex, a lot of style and a lot less substance

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In 1918 half of all cars in America were Model T’s. Henry Ford joked you could have one in any colour as long as it was black. By 1927 over...

The Shape We're in- Whoo Baby!

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Last night everything suddenly became clear. While Alan Greenspan is saying, "We are not quite in free fall, but something fairly clos...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

In Need of a Hero- Old Soldiers- Intellectuals -Community and Change

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There was a time before in the 1950s when America was in need of a hero. While your everyday American feared the Atom bomb, practiced air-ra...
Monday, November 3, 2008

Whassup? Change..owning the message

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Once upon a time in 1999, Anheuser-Busch bought the rights to use a crazy little idea by Charles Stone III for $37,000. The resulting comme...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Engage Kids 6-11- Things I'd like to unknow

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The email newsletter had been sitting in my inbox for a couple of days. The subject: Engage kids 6-11. I had been away. Is that why it had ...
Friday, October 17, 2008

I want my Anarchy with Butter!

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Yesterday in class I was talking about credibility. Who is credible? Who can sell your brand? We also talked about how shock advertising can...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

There's an elephant in my bed. Don't Vote!

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In 1969 Pierre Trudeau said quite rightly that living next door to the United States was, "like sleeping with an elephant. No matter ho...
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