Comments on: Do You Have A Dream?

By: Yves

Yves — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:45:34 +0000

But . . . but . . . I find myself spluttering. This is the world, Tim. You could analyse almost every advert like this. It pollutes but there is no end to it, and your efforts remind me of Through the Looking Glass:

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
“If this were only cleared away,”
They said, “it would be grand!”

“If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year.
Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
“That they could get it clear?”
“I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.

By: Gnomely

Gnomely — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:45:26 +0000

Tim Boucher should look for a career in the subversive advertisement business or start his own advertising firm! I mean seriously. And if you needed a janitor to clean the clown poop on the floor after a clown parade floated through the hallways- I am sure you could hire Jesse James himself!

http://img1.grafika.cz/grafika/images3/brand_baby.jpg

By: kylark

kylark — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:13:57 +0000

See how nice that all works out?

Haha, I know you’re taking an ironic tone here, but I can’t help but think this sort of advertising genuinely helps people. Imagining your goals and writing them down is one of the more powerful strategies available for getting what you want out of life. And by the end of the process the savvy consumer is no more likely to call a retirement advisor if it wasn’t the sort of thing they weren’t already planning to do anyway.

Right?

Right??

By: kylark

kylark — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:39:47 +0000

Tim, if you haven’t yet gotten ahold of a copy of Culture is our Business by Marshall McLuhan please do. I think you’d enjoy it. He does sort of the same thing you’re doing, but it’s fun to see all the ads from the late 60s and see what’s changed since then (and what hasn’t).

By: jill

jill — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:27:57 +0000

yay! I’m gonna give them ALL my money!

By: thekeys

thekeys — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:44:34 +0000

alright, offDIRECTtopic, but…

The phrase, “A true story, you wouldn’t believe.” is used in the trailers for the WTC movie.

what the hell?
just fishy…