Saturday, October 13, 2007

Eyball embedded in a hand - Is this advertising?

A set of teeth super-imposed over an eyeball.
An eyeball lodged in a perfect male chest where the nipple should be.

"Seeing and hearing like never before."

Hmmm, does that just scream Pioneer flat-screen TV to you?
It doesn't to me either.

I have a visceral response to these ads; one of anger, disgust & confusion.

Now i'm all for new, innovative & bizarre advertising, but this really makes me want to vomit.
I literally change the station to anything else when it comes on.

Another ad that prompts this action is the Carl's Jr. "Flat Buns" rap. I notice that after a short while they removed the teacher-turned-play-mate, so now it is only the two scrawny white-boys "rapping." It is sexist, misogynistic & makes any hunger pangs dissipate into nausea.

Now, there are plenty of successful adverts out there, sad thing is i cannot remember them too much... There's the elephant-little-girl with the box-of-light (another lcd-screen type ad). Cute elephant. There are some great beer & car ads.

But the anger-ones are the anger-inducing ones. I guess that serves their purpose, argh!