Archive for the ‘media’ Category

leveling the playing field, a little bit

Friday, November 3, 2006 0:49 No Comments

Kudos to Reversa for turning around the “hot women as an incentive to buy products” in advertising. This is a really good one. Check it.

This was posted under category: media

dove’s commercial on faked beauty

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 17:48 No Comments

This issue of over-photoshopped images has been on my mind since I saw the insanely faked image of Pamela Anderson in a Mac makeup ad. I didn’t recognise her and only later knew it was her when I saw a photo of her, the way she looks in reality at about 40 years old, standing [...]

This was posted under category: fashion, media, modeling

audiobooks

Tuesday, October 3, 2006 0:30 No Comments

I’m always a proponent of free stuff. That being said, with the rise of mp3 players, e-readers and non-traditional book formats I thought some of you might be interested in this. Whether you want to see what it’s like to listen to audiobooks on your mp3 player or already enjoy them regularly, you can head [...]

This was posted under category: media