I love this! There are so many things going on here- is it irony or parody? and if it is an ironic or parodic take on Magritte's painting (which is ironic itself, no?) then is this double irony? Or is it just a double entendre? Or is this a triple entendre?
I know those are kind of boring questions to ask, but I think that one thing about our acculturation to irony is that we as a generation (or perhaps I'm just projecting here) tend to over use the word without really understanding what it means.
Thoughts? Definitions? Better questions or observations about these pieces??
Hi all! I just wanted to share with you this link to a video on youtube. It's an Australian conference of some sort and it touches on a lot of things regarding advertising. It mentions BitTorrent, software piracy, TV broadcast in relation to the computing age, "harnessing" the effects of piracy, and the future of TV and advertising in general. It's one heck of a watch if it's your first time seeing this. There are a total of 7 parts to this video (7 parts x9 mins = an hour or so). You don't need to see all of it because it gets a little repetitive but it's definitely an interesting take on the future of ads.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
This is a student-created imagining of the possibilities of the future of the internet/publishing, made in 2005. A lot of our class discussions have reminded me of this video, so I wanted to share it with you.
What do you think?? I don't know much about the possibilities of computer science, but I think the ideas in this are very provocative.
I offered to create a class blog in lecture today, so here it is. If this fails horribly I won't be offended. I just think this is a more democratic and conversational approach to discussions outside of class. I hope you'll find this helpful. Plus, blogs are fun!
I've allowed everyone in the class to be a "publisher", which means you can make posts just like this one as well as comment on other people's posts.
So here goes! We ended class today with an anecdote about a McDonald's advertisement in a BART station. This was in response to the idea of contextualized advertisements and how admen may strategically appeal to special groups of consumers based on socio-economics, location, etc. This reminded me of a Youtube video I recently watched:
My initial response was, 'Wait a minute. Why is Apple advertising the iPod to the deaf?'. The dancer uses real American Sign Language, which obviously appeals to the Deaf community. But honestly, how effective could this ad be? But then I had a flashback to a scene in the movie "Napoleon Dynamite" where Napoleon is sign-dancing for the Happy Hands Club, and the audience is supposed to be amused by its novelty. Are the hearing supposed to be amused by the novelty of this form of expression? Is Apple capitalizing on deaf culture in a way that appeals to both the hearing and deaf alike? This video makes such a huge statement about the strategies of advertisers and the scope of their advertisements. I am provoked to wonder what aspect of my life they will invade next, and whether or not I will even realize when or how they are doing it.
