Costa Concordia, the cruise company behind the recent capsized cruise ship incident in Italy, has recently announced that it will provide some compensation to the surviving victims. No, we’re not talking about a refund, we’re looking at a whopping 30% off their next cruise! Yay!
That is such a fair and practical form of compensation for passengers that nearly met their fate in the water during what was supposed to be an exciting and fun holiday adventure. I bet they can’t wait to get back out in the water, especially with the very same cruise line that had extremely poorly trained staff and management for handling emergency situations. And wow, a whole 30% off! This isn’t a KMart appliance sale you f’ing idiots!
I’m so disappointed in this, I’m going to stop writing and go back to watching Alvin & The Chipmunks Chip Wrecked.
A good friend and nature enthusiast, Sute Dawg, has released his latest nature documentary which explores the Colorado foothills and the wild life within. This film features amazing footage and commentary into the rarely witnessed wild side of mother nature and the front rage of colorful Colorado, from birds, plants & trees, to mammals and predators.
I do have experience in advertising & marketing, and I know that it is risky to use photos of people in certain implementations, because of the possibility that the photos can be interpreted as representing a racist perspective.
Usually that is a very far stretch from the true intention of the image usage, and is simply just an interpretation. But, when you have an image with additional context of why and where the image of people are being used, then it gets a little less subjective and more direct.
For instance, Life cereal has a couple flavors of their popular breakfast treat, but it is a little odd that for the Maple & Brown sugar, they have chosen to use a photo of children with a dark-skin ethnicity. From a design perspective, it does goes well with the darker color palette, but when you have light-skinned children on the lighter box (cinnamon flavor), then it really starts conveying a little more direct message about your company, especially when your product is called “LIFE.” Now, it’s not as blatant as having some asian children on the yellow box, but close enough. Oh well, that’s ‘Rife!
So, among the many recent freecreditreport.com commercials, featuring the latest “winners’ of the freecreditreport.com band contest, there appears to be a whack-ass prop for the snowboarder persona in the commercial.
I’m not sure if this is some kind of joke that the production assistants pulled, or they simply just don’t know how to mount bindings on a snowboard correctly. I’m leaning towards the latter.
And, I’m also not sure what is worse, the band and their stupid jingles (I’m not going to call them songs, because they are whack-ass 30 second advertising melodies), or the fact that they make a commercial that airs nationally and it has a “snowboarder” carrying a snowboard with bindings mounted like a skier got a hold of this set up.
I’m going to overlook the fact that he is bringing a snowboard, not even in a bag, as carry-on.
Is this how you handle credit reports too? Real trust worthy, let me tell you. Your credibility (no pun intended) has just dropped with me.
Take a look at how the bindings are mounted on this “dude’s” snowboard in this commercial. They’re not regular foot or goofy foot. I think that’s just stupid foot.
So we all knew the economy was down and going to hell, but who knew it would be effecting our super heroes?
Iron isn’t really a precious metal, nor does it have a high price attached to it like gold, so you know times are bad when Iron Man has to down grade his costume to this.
Quick, a fast food chain in Europe is celebrating the relaunch of Star Wars The Phantom Menace in 3D. They thought it would be a good idea to offer up the Vader burger which features a beef patty, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and some special dark side sauce.
Oh yeah, it also features a BLACK BUN. mmmmm, it just looks delicious. Black buns are always great to sink your teeth into.
