adbusted's Journal

atrion @ 9:31pm: US gov
... I have no idea if this is real or not, mainly because I have never used this site before (the one I link to) so I do not know its reliability, but I found this. If this is real I am horrified about it, this is just wrong.
... As bad is this may sound, if this is true, I am glad I am Canadian

atrion @ 8:48pm: Nuke a gay whale,
For Christ

atrion @ 9:59pm: arg....
... I went to the Theater today to see the movie Shrek 2 with arje & uvtert. Before the movie began they were showing commercial. My first question is when the hell did this start, I know that they show Previews before the movie, but when commercials.
... Oh well what the hell I said I decided to ignore it, but when this milk ad came on I was shocked.
... This milk commercial showed this white women in a bridesmaid outfit talking and then afterwards showed her drinking a glass of white milk.
( Bridesmaid commercial )

...This wasn't to bad but then there was a second commercial with a black musician, and when he is finished speaking he drink a glass of chocolate milk.
( Musician Commercial )

... Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this, I certainly hope not. Then again this might just be me bitching about something that need not be bitched at, but I think it should.
... Oh by the way here is the official link to the milk site: Milk Commercials

__o__o__ @ 9:35am: word
word.

a member.

hello.

okay... where to begin...

well, let's start with my favorite "adbusters" related topic: the "un-swoosher"(tm)blackspot(tm) shoe(tm).(tm)

okay.. for people who didn't see the problem with a seven dollar anti-consumerism magazine in the first place, here comes a storm of yellow shit: the "un-swoosher"(tm). this makes no sence whatsoever, and for people to buy into it and think it's cool that they are doing something so "subversive" just reaffirms my contention that people are ridiculous.

if you think it's cool that they are doing this, you should know that your beloved adbusters(tm)...IS USING ADVERTISING TECHNIQUES TO GET YOU TO THINK IT IS COOL. therein lies the rub. you read a magazine that spits at consumerism and advertising... and tells you to do so as well, and then they begin this whole sneaker buisness and anti-corporation coroporation silliness, and they excpect the legion of people who are rapt in the whole "lawlessness" of disobeying advertisers to follow thier lead. and, from what i've seen so far... most of the people that read this magazine think it's a good thing. what? did i miss something here? repeat the question please, i think i was on drugs when you asked the class the first time, ma'am.

these people, who obviously don't see that there is "uncool" marketing afoot, are probably the same people who think Starbucks(tm) is okay because they pay fair-trade prices for their coffee and that almost totally exonerates them from the overt super-saturation of our towns and cities with thier coffeeshops. placing them right across the street from a privately-owned coffeeshop, or as is the case of my city, you don't need to know which one, placing over 8 stores and 3 small satelites in a 6 block radius. but enough about Starbucks(tm)... the real problem to adress here is with adbusters(tm).

adbusters(tm) markets (that word again) themselves to the "ad-savvy," this person, because of one belief or another, wouldn't be caught dead in a McDonalds(tm) and can rattle off a hundred or more reasons why they wouldn't be caught dead in a McDonald's(tm), but will wave around a copy of adbusters just to show how anti-consumerism they are. this marketing aproach is marketing ot the Uncool crowd. companies do this because they know that you're on to them and thier techniques. adbusters(tm) uses this stragedy in an even more devious manner: they market to the to-smart-for-marketing-crowd. ::NEWSFLASH:: you can't market to someone who is too smart for advertising.

so what does this prove?

... hmmm.

__o__o__ @ 9:29pm: this is the first entry into this community.

i hope we can come up with things to discuss about.