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.

Monday, March 30, 2009

It's a Fake World - Elvis fans all shook up

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Elvis fans are all a twitter over their King's portrayal. The New York Fries fake Elvis ad recently appeared in the Regina Sun and it se...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Oh My Gawd Don't Let My Plants on Twitter

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Thanks to researchers at New York University, your plants will be able to use twitter to send you messages about their trials and tribulatio...

Coming to a Pothole Near You? The Colonel

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If you are like me, you'd never have guessed that Colonel Sanders had a Christmas Album. These are things we learn from Google searches...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Ode to Soupy and his funny green pieces of paper

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It was January 1, 1965 and probably most parents were still snug in their beds while the kids were fixed in front of living room televisions...

The Circus is coming to town for 2009

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There's a famous quote that uses the idea of a circus that explains all about the differences between advertising, sales promotion, publ...

Vanilla Ice says Sorry! About time!

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Virgin Mobile's new viral campaign to Right Music Wrongs features an apology by Vanilla Ice. From their site, "In a world awash wi...

Shoes to the rescue- Gilligan!

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Here's the premise- if you buy shoes that are made from recyclable materials and you find yourself adrift and delirious at sea, you migh...
Monday, March 23, 2009

The Good, the bad and the ugly of Brands

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Brandchannel.com has just released the results of it's BrandJunkie Awards. Here's a summary Most Controversial: GM Sample comment ...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Twitter Future

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"So you're saying people will "tweet" what they're eating for breakfast?" "And 'upload' pictures of...
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