When The World Is Reminded That All We Are Is A Bunch of Munchkins

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I can’t help but thinking of the scene where Dorothy enters Oz, her house in tatters, (having been picked up and thrown through the air by a tornado) she climbs out of the house to find that she’s killed a woman, her house has landed smack dab on the body of someone wearing some remarkably groovy slippers.

If I were a refugee

If I Were a Refugee

Adrian re-posted a reflection by Michael Leuinig from this weekend’s Sunday Age It says what no-one in the media or anyone in our political leadership seems to be saying at the moment, and oh how much it needs to be said… If I were a refugee What a nice one I would be. Not in [...]

The iPhone as a self-imposed artificial burning bush…

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Standing in the “inner circle” under the claw at the second Melbourne as Bono walked past (no, not bragging, just projecting an image heh heh) I looked around at the sea of iPhones and cameras around me, everyone had one, a couple of people never seemed to put it down, many pulled them out every [...]

Top Ten – Teen Cult Movies

I was asked to compile a list of my top ten movies for this edition of MESH by the NSW UCA. As is often the case with me I took the task a tad more serious than I think she had in mind, and considering the amount of movies that I’ve watched naming my top [...]

Teen Cult Movies I Wish Would Be Turned Into a Musical

Inspired by the news that the teen cult movie Heathers is being made into a musical, PASTE Magazine asked the question “What teen movies would you like to see given the musical treatment?” I thought I’d give it a good think and, I believe I’ve got my top 5 list ready… Feel free to add [...]

Our Perception of Beauty

Maggi Dawn pointed towards an interesting description of how a young woman’s image is altered in a step by step process in order to create a “stunning” (yet un-real) image for a magazine cover. The video below does a similar thing. I’ll post a few uses for the clip below, and for the link that [...]

Personal care product marketers reach for a teeny edge

Thinking about advertising, marketing and how beauty companies are marketing themselves to young people? here’s an interesting article from today’s LA Times: Struggling to get their message to teens, companies are finding new ways to reach them. “Forces are making it very difficult for advertisers to connect with young people,” said Samantha Skey, executive vice [...]

Eat Your Cereal With A Fork And Do Your Homework In The Dark…

I finally picked up a copy of Pump Up The Volume on DVD, the old VHS version is beyond repair as I tend to use it a lot as an example of one of the seminal GenX teen films of the 90′s. I’m in the process of reading up for the course I’m doing for [...]

Freedom From Thirst

After reading “Consuming Faith” I thought that it might be interesting to do a link up every now and then (ie when I have time free) with Duncan’s TV Advert Blog and delve a little deeper into the advert, the product and the message that is being sold by the advertisement. As this is the [...]