Paying it forward through advertising...

With the world "going green" and world becoming more socially responsible we are beginning to see many "socially responsible" commericals..one of the best ones that i have seen is the "half acre" paying it forward Liberty Mutual commercial...it just proves that if we all did something to help someone out and others saw that we could begin to change the world..step by step we could all begin to (i know its cliche) make the world a better place....its amazing what advertising like this could do to the world..

Semiotics

the siginifier in the is ad is the car, while the signified is the grater....the advertiser tricks the mind into thinking that the image is of a grater, but uses the car to replace the image...according to charles pierce's theory the image symbolically portrays a grater, iconically portrays a car, and indexically portrays a utility item...according to barthes theory the denotative portrayal is of a car, and connotative portral of a utility item...

just some thoughts about fall....

my favorite thing about fall is the leaves...i love watching them fall and having them cover every inch of the ground below..its like natures giving us a little gift to keep us happy during the winter...soon the air gets colder, the nights become longer, and you can look forward to the warm fires, the hor chocolate, and getting bundled up in sweaters and jackets....

its funny that its already fall but its still 95 degrees outside......sometimes i wish i lived up in the northeast where fall is actually a defined sense of time...

rolling balls of color...and elmo goes email..

recently crayola came out with a new set of products called "crayola beginnings"...these new products are creative products made to be easily handled by children's hands...one of the products "Tadoodles" is a plastic toy containing a brush that allows little children (9 months +) to paint masterpieces enhancing a children creativity at a very very young age...

another company joining the band-wagon is playskool..playskool recently created a line of toys for the technically savvy child...one of the products is the child friendly Internet tool that allows kids to pick up a figurine place it in a spot that connects the Internet to a game page for the kid..it monitors Internet behavior in children and helps kids to learn about the Internet...another item is a kids digital camera....it can be thrown around, smashed and bashed and still contains 6.5 megapixel picture quality..

man i wish i was a still a kid..or at least a kid that was born in this day and age...

some things to think about....

here are some stupid things to think about....

why don't sheep shrink when it rains???

if wool shrinks when you wash it...how come sheep dont shrink when it rains..

why are they called apartments if they are all stuck together???

its kind of true..if apartments are individualized living quarters why are they all connected into one building...

one more stupic thought...

why isn't there any mouse-flavored cat food???

if cartoons always show cats running after mice, or a movie showing a cat eating a mouse, how come there is no mouse-flavored cat food....seems reasonable..right???

InterSEXuality...

this ad for viagra is an example of horizontal intertexuality...the add is for a erectile dysfunction pill hence the bed..while the dots resemble the game "Twister"..there is also a suggestion that viagra also one to play "sexually"....very smart..

She done did it again ! ? !

so britany spears finally lost the custody of both her kids in a long drawn out case..i mean seriously..the kids are going to kevin..now thats not any better, but at least he's not driving around smoking with his kids sitting on his lap while driving...what is happening to parenting these days???? image how messed up those kids are going to be once they grow up...being famous really does ruin your life..and i bet that had she been a normal person her kids would have been taken away from her a lot sooner..