Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Friday, 19 December 2008
Just Gave a tenner to a homeless man.
He was singing and playing guitar and was genuinely really good.
He said that he was saving for a deposit on a tent and was fed up becaus he had been there playing for 6 hours and hadnt even got 4 quid.
I gave him a quid but then thought it'd be nice to give abit more because honestly i dont really need it and i have a roof over my head. So i went and got a tenner out and gave it to him. He was soooooo happy and like gobsmacked, made me feel real good.
I hope that he was telling the truth, but even if he was lying it was still a generous gesture and i at least brought a smile onto his face for a few minutes.
He said that he was saving for a deposit on a tent and was fed up becaus he had been there playing for 6 hours and hadnt even got 4 quid.
I gave him a quid but then thought it'd be nice to give abit more because honestly i dont really need it and i have a roof over my head. So i went and got a tenner out and gave it to him. He was soooooo happy and like gobsmacked, made me feel real good.
I hope that he was telling the truth, but even if he was lying it was still a generous gesture and i at least brought a smile onto his face for a few minutes.
Sunday, 14 December 2008
True Love via dorkcentral.
Master Chief to wed couple [A Halo love story]
Here's proof not all FPS fans are dual shotgun-wielding maniacs IRL: Desirai Labrada and John Henry are two Halo players who met online, fell in love, and are now getting married. Master Chief himself will serve as the officiant to wed the two. Some sweet.
Desirai and John are big-time "Halo" players. She games under the name SickNDeHead. He plays as PsychoVandal. They met when she lived in New York and he was in Florida. She'd become Xbox Live friends with his roommate, and they slowly started to play games together, regularly. When he didn't show up online one day during the time they usually played, she sent him a message and her phone number.
"I was drawn to her laugh," John said in a phone interview with MTV News earlier this week. "I had made her laugh a few times and thought her laugh was kind of cute."
They played "Halo" as teammates. As they were falling in love, they tended to protect each other a lot, watching each other's back as lasers and grenades fell around them. And in an act of sacrifice only possible during a blossoming romance, Desirai agreed to take Dramamine so she could last through three-hour binges of campaign mode on "Halo 3" with John without getting motion sickness.
That's true love.
"I was drawn to her laugh," John said in a phone interview with MTV News earlier this week. "I had made her laugh a few times and thought her laugh was kind of cute."
They played "Halo" as teammates. As they were falling in love, they tended to protect each other a lot, watching each other's back as lasers and grenades fell around them. And in an act of sacrifice only possible during a blossoming romance, Desirai agreed to take Dramamine so she could last through three-hour binges of campaign mode on "Halo 3" with John without getting motion sickness.
That's true love.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Che Guevara of Essay writing
I had to write a 1500-2000 word essay and kept trying to start and just failing because i think its bullshit. I was just going to not hand in anything but then i though Hey wait, i might aswell write something! I might aswell hand in something!And that something is MY TRUE OPINION SERVED RAW ON A PLATE! I hope they like it! Man, i am punkrock! Cya later boundaries!
Ok so here it goes!
“Advertising does not first get attention, and then create an emotion
Advertising creates an emotion, which results in attention”
I am going to start my essay by explaining the meaning of Attention. Below is an extract from the dictionary defining the word.
“1.
the act or faculty of attending, esp. by directing the mind to an object.
Psychology.
a. a concentration of the mind on a single object or thought, esp. one preferentially selected from a complex, with a view to limiting or clarifying receptivity by narrowing the range of stimuli.
b. a state of consciousness characterized by such concentration.
c. a capacity to maintain selective or sustained concentration.”
Dictionary.com (2008) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/attention
Ok, so the point of this essay is to think on this quote : “Advertising does not first get attention, and then create an emotion. Advertising creates an emotion, which results in attention”
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p84
The quote is neither wrong nor right because nothing is set in stone. All I can do is look through a bunch of other people’s research such as Du Pessis E. and then decide whether or not a conclusion is viable. So the question is, are advertisements dependent on creating an emotion to gain attention or vice versa? I have looked over this whole essay criteria stuff loads and loads of times trying to write something actually worthy of a good grading but all that I can think is “This is open ended and all that I can do is quote random psychologists and advertising guru’s in hope that I will somehow get the right answer” but then there is no right or wrong answer and so what would the point be? Surely all that I would be getting correct is the fact that I can look at somebody else’s work and copy the right bits out here and there, Pretty much just filling in the blanks as I go along. My view on the advertising industry has been totally warped by stupid pretentious questions like this one and I now no longer feel much of a desire to pursue my educational path within this subject. I think that by looking into things too much such as whether or not advertisements use emotion to gain attention and if so which way round does it go, we are looking too deeply and potentially over complicating what is in my opinion a pretty simple subject.
“Most of the time around 80 per cent of the budget will be used on media placement, and only 20 per cent on production. It seems intuitively obvious that the impact an advertisement has will depend on both its content and its scheduling.”
“A beautiful quote that I read in Admap goes:
Bad advertising is as good as no advertising. It just costs more!”
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p9
I think that this is a really good point. Too much money and time is often spent on scheduling for the advertisement and things are looked at too much. The main point of an advertising campaign is too sell what you have to sell to the consumer be it a shampoo or to donate to charity. If you have a totally uncreative campaign plastered everywhere in the world, you probably still won’t increase your sales/awareness by much as it would just be another bland advertisement amongst a sea of bland advertisements. I am aware that all of my writing so far is pretty much totally off the path of the essay subject but I do not care. I was totally stuck as to what to write because I think that it is rubbish and do not want to churn out 2000 words about other people’s work. I want to come up with new ideas not recycle old people’s ideas. Yes, advertising plays on people’s emotions to sell the product and that’s as simple as it should be. Do we really need to know if the chicken came before the egg? We just need to keep on walking, striving to test people and try new things, challenging people with new ideas. I do not care about the grade I receive for this at all because as I have already stated in the previous 606 words of this essay I do not agree with it. I understand very well that in this life I will have to do things that I do not want to do, but my views on things will not be compromised and I think that advertising on the whole is a very boring study in which a lot of what we are told to learn really doesn’t matter. All you need is basic knowledge and understanding and a creative mind. There is no need for over the top studying. Basic psychology is needed and anything more is just too much in my opinion. I hope that you enjoyed reading this because I enjoyed writing it.
Hopefully I will pass this course, but all in all I am not sure if I even care anymore.
Bibliography:
Dictionary.com (2008) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/attention
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p84
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p9
Ok so here it goes!
“Advertising does not first get attention, and then create an emotion
Advertising creates an emotion, which results in attention”
I am going to start my essay by explaining the meaning of Attention. Below is an extract from the dictionary defining the word.
“1.
the act or faculty of attending, esp. by directing the mind to an object.
Psychology.
a. a concentration of the mind on a single object or thought, esp. one preferentially selected from a complex, with a view to limiting or clarifying receptivity by narrowing the range of stimuli.
b. a state of consciousness characterized by such concentration.
c. a capacity to maintain selective or sustained concentration.”
Dictionary.com (2008) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/attention
Ok, so the point of this essay is to think on this quote : “Advertising does not first get attention, and then create an emotion. Advertising creates an emotion, which results in attention”
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p84
The quote is neither wrong nor right because nothing is set in stone. All I can do is look through a bunch of other people’s research such as Du Pessis E. and then decide whether or not a conclusion is viable. So the question is, are advertisements dependent on creating an emotion to gain attention or vice versa? I have looked over this whole essay criteria stuff loads and loads of times trying to write something actually worthy of a good grading but all that I can think is “This is open ended and all that I can do is quote random psychologists and advertising guru’s in hope that I will somehow get the right answer” but then there is no right or wrong answer and so what would the point be? Surely all that I would be getting correct is the fact that I can look at somebody else’s work and copy the right bits out here and there, Pretty much just filling in the blanks as I go along. My view on the advertising industry has been totally warped by stupid pretentious questions like this one and I now no longer feel much of a desire to pursue my educational path within this subject. I think that by looking into things too much such as whether or not advertisements use emotion to gain attention and if so which way round does it go, we are looking too deeply and potentially over complicating what is in my opinion a pretty simple subject.
“Most of the time around 80 per cent of the budget will be used on media placement, and only 20 per cent on production. It seems intuitively obvious that the impact an advertisement has will depend on both its content and its scheduling.”
“A beautiful quote that I read in Admap goes:
Bad advertising is as good as no advertising. It just costs more!”
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p9
I think that this is a really good point. Too much money and time is often spent on scheduling for the advertisement and things are looked at too much. The main point of an advertising campaign is too sell what you have to sell to the consumer be it a shampoo or to donate to charity. If you have a totally uncreative campaign plastered everywhere in the world, you probably still won’t increase your sales/awareness by much as it would just be another bland advertisement amongst a sea of bland advertisements. I am aware that all of my writing so far is pretty much totally off the path of the essay subject but I do not care. I was totally stuck as to what to write because I think that it is rubbish and do not want to churn out 2000 words about other people’s work. I want to come up with new ideas not recycle old people’s ideas. Yes, advertising plays on people’s emotions to sell the product and that’s as simple as it should be. Do we really need to know if the chicken came before the egg? We just need to keep on walking, striving to test people and try new things, challenging people with new ideas. I do not care about the grade I receive for this at all because as I have already stated in the previous 606 words of this essay I do not agree with it. I understand very well that in this life I will have to do things that I do not want to do, but my views on things will not be compromised and I think that advertising on the whole is a very boring study in which a lot of what we are told to learn really doesn’t matter. All you need is basic knowledge and understanding and a creative mind. There is no need for over the top studying. Basic psychology is needed and anything more is just too much in my opinion. I hope that you enjoyed reading this because I enjoyed writing it.
Hopefully I will pass this course, but all in all I am not sure if I even care anymore.
Bibliography:
Dictionary.com (2008) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/attention
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p84
Du Pessis E. (2006) The Advertised Mind., Kogan Page: London, p9
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Rubbish
Hate how lots of friends are going away.
Some are going away for like half a year.
One has moved away for good.
One is working long shifts in the evening time.
And the rest are either working their arses off for christmas or live in stupid areas.
Rubbish!
Some are going away for like half a year.
One has moved away for good.
One is working long shifts in the evening time.
And the rest are either working their arses off for christmas or live in stupid areas.
Rubbish!
Friday, 5 December 2008
FUCK THE POPO!
Police chief faces charges in boy's Uzi death
Police Chief Edward Fleury
A police chief and a gun club have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of an 8-year-old boy who shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a gun fair.
Police Chief Edward Fleury owns the COP Firearms & Training, which sponsored the gun show last month in Westfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Christopher Bizilj shot himself in the head when he lost control of the 9mm micro submachine gun as it recoiled while he was firing at a pumpkin.
The Westfield Sportsman's Club and two other men also were indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges.
District Attorney William Bennett said Fleury and the club also face four charges of furnishing a machine gun to a minor.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
PeePee
Special car for police to pee
Police using an isolated shooting range in Austria have been banned from urinating in nearby bushes if they are caught short.
After complaints from local environmentalists they have been ordered to use a special car that takes them 250 yards to the nearest lavatory.
Police chief Kurt Berger said: "A man in uniform urinating in public in a water protection area - no one wants to see that."
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