conan and amex

italian glass:


indian fabric:


the man has good taste.

girls like you love girls like me.

i really appreciate when advertising is self-aware. see below:

hot beef balls.

i generally don't like hot pockets. this commercial makes me sure that i don't.

whoopi goldberg has a problem

have you seen this? it is perhaps one of the best commercials i have ever seen. absurd advertising at its finest.



you can find individual commercials for each of whoopi's alternate personas on youtube as well.

what's going on here is uncomfortability.

budweiser golden wheat

i just saw this commercial on tv and decided it was just weird enough that i needed to share it.



i don't know about you, but i don't like thinking about my beer macking on wheat, or anything else for that matter.

stinky. stinky. stinky.

recently, Hefty brand garbage bags has been pushing their "odor block" technology. to raise awareness for their product they created this gem of a commercial:



i hate this commercial. here's why:

i know that advertising is supposed to manipulate us. we're supposed to see a commercial or a billboard or a print ad and be swayed to want to partake in whatever that ad happens to be selling. in this case though, the ad is completely misleading in the way it is presenting itself. it's not really selling you a garbage bag so much as it's selling you on the acceptability and normality of an unsustainable way of life. you are supposed to be convinced that yes, your garbage is stinky, and yes, wouldn't it be wonderful if it wasn't? however, most of the "stinky" things they show being swallowed by the almighty Hefty bag shouldn't be thrown into the garbage at all. most of what they are showing is either compostable or recyclable. if these people with the stinky garbage just disposed of their waste responsibly they wouldn't need fancy odor-blocking trash bags.

how about this: instead of rethinking our trash bags, let's rethink our trash.

dijonnaise

advertising is all around us. more worrying, advertising is inside us. what i mean to say is, for the past week or so the jingle for Hellmann's Dijonnaise has been stuck in my head. this is a commercial i haven't seen or thought about in years. it is for a product i never even thought about buying. and yet, suddenly, i started singing di-di-di-dijonnaise. i resent the fact that Hellmann's is taking up prime real estate in my brain. take a gander at the commercial for yourself. or don't. i would hate to get dijonnaise stuck in your head too.