Wednesday, November 10, 2010

hiatus

hello there loyal reader!
I've decided to take a blogging holiday - though the ad industry doesn't deserve it - but I'll be back for a Christmas Special, sometime around mid-December.
Thanks for all your support and upstaging! The comments sections have been much wittier and more insightful than the posts. Please let me know if you have your own blogs - the world will be a brighter place with them.
In the meantime, is it just me or is there heaps of good street art around at the moment?
Love
JEM

Sunday, November 7, 2010

comms experts

No social commentary this time; just a piece of pure, unadulterated pedantry (my favourite kind). Spot the visual mistake:


So the X marks the spot where you "cut out" your home phone... to reveal the home phone cord?

Shouldn't that have disappeared with the rest of the phone?
Whooo, with that last grainy pic I feel like a UFO spotter. It's there! Really it is! A redundant anachronism!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

don't fall for it

One question for this billboard: Why?


Why does it take a strong character to wear purple everyday? Why is purple is not yet the new black? (Indigo's close enough surely?)
"Ha ha!" growls the billboard in munterish, deep Hauraki FM dj tones, "people might think you're a poofter, mate."
Classic. Makes me wanna buy your product.
This is guy-to-guy talk, given that purple is an acceptable colour to wear if you're female. So the coffee is male, apparently, and so are you, the billboard viewer. And yet....

That last one says "squeeze me and I'll blow you a kiss!"
Uh, I think I'll pass...
Ps:
mauvember not movember! (such glowing ashes would be quite pretty wouldn't they?)