A word from your pal, Tyler Durden

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. -Tyler Durden (Fight Club)"

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Clever Energizer Battery Advertisement

Since a child, I've associated the Energizer with the little rabbit that would just keep on going and going and going while playing it's bass drum.





Remember that commercial? Well if it doesn't ring a bell, it was the first Energizer commercial aired on TV that introduced the Energizer bunny. Pretty cool huh?

The times have changed and as the bunny still makes appearances in commercials and print advertisements, I have noticed Energizer taking a different and more clever approach to their print advertisements as shown below:

The age of computer generated imagery seems to be in dominance as more advertisements have started to dabble in creative ways to manipulate photos and generate graphics.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Old Spice for Men

Well to start off on this blog, I would like to look into the latest Old Spice Commercial I had just seen on TV earlier today featuring Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis endorsing Old Spice's Swagger body wash. As shown below:



My first response to it was, "What just happened?" so I had to go back to YouTube to check it out to make sure if I was missing something. I thought it got so ridiculous when he got onto the raven with a saddle and blasted into psychedelic space. It's commercials like this that take something pretty normal, then flip it to something so silly it sticks to your brain like gum underneath a desk. Well done Old Spice! You have done it again with your goofy commercials that seem to just tickle my noggin.