How do pancakes relate to advertising?

Well, they don't. At least not directly. An art director of a small agency started blogging about his adventures making elaborate pancakes for his daughter, and some of his creations are amazing. I read an article that puts his website into an advertising perspective, referring to his tagline for the site, "just trying to make some cool pancakes for my daughter." It's interesting to see how you can relate advertising to almost anything. He's even got his own social media campaign, with about 25,000 Facebook fans. I love how he even makes the pictures he posts look like ads, complete with the logo in the bottom right-hand corner.



I don't know if he's planning on making this a business venture, but if so, I think he's got the advertising covered.

My friend posted a status today saying he saw an ad that said, "If you are between the ages of 0 and 68, please call us right now."

It's things like this that make people hate ads. Between 0 and 68? Really? As my friend said, unless you expect a call from Baby's First Phone, this ad is ineffective. Are they just trying to attract attention? I don't think this kind of attention will help get them business. Then again, I don't know the response they've gotten from the ad, but this doesn't make me want to call them. I automatically assume it's a disreputable business. Either way, I don't want my friends thinking this is the kind of stuff we do in advertising.

What makes a good commercial? Some creatives are really particular when it comes to liking commercials. But sometimes if it's really funny, and I want to watch it again, I think it has succeeded. Take, for example, the new GEICO commercial that features the little piggy that cried "wee wee wee" all the way home. My professor for my creative class told me it was stupid, but I laughed the first time I saw it, and I always look forward to watching it again. My family shares the same sentiment. We've shown it to our friends, who have shown it to their friends. Isn't this the goal of the advertiser? Now, does it make me want to get GEICO? No, but it makes me smile when I think of GEICO.

Orange You Glad?

The other day when I was going to my mom's house, I saw the most amazing tree (above) I've ever seen. It was such an amazingly vibrant shade of orange that I couldn't help but stare at it as I walked down to her house after parking my car. It was almost the color of an orange highlighter, and I didn't think that color could exist in nature. It got me thinking: What if trees where normally that color? What if green trees were the exception and trees turned green when it was fall? Would green trees be as special as orange trees are now? Is it just the rarity of the colors of fall that makes them so special?

Swimming in Filth

On Monday, as I was walking, I saw that the maintenance crew had left unattended a pile they had made from sweeping. The pile was speckled with gray and black dust and debris from the day's activities, but within the collection of dirt was a small pink origami swan. It seemed so out of place. How did it get there?

I'd been wondering that all week, and then today I saw that someone had tacked the pink origami swan to a sign in the hallway. I'm so glad it found a home.

Oh, Christmas Tree!

I keep seeing all of these tents where people are selling natural Christmas trees. What a waste. You go to all that trouble to grow a tree, and then you chop it down to put it in a house. And then once Christmas is over, you throw it away. Why? If fake Christmas trees aren't good enough for you, not to mention cost-effective, I have another idea. I think people should buy potted Christmas trees when they're small and grow them themselves. Each year the Christmas tree would get bigger, and when Christmas was over, you'd put the tree outside and let it grow. Once the tree got too big to put in your house, you'd go plant it somewhere and buy a new one. Not only would it save money, but it would also save the environment, and the tree might even smell more like pine.

The New iPaw

A few years ago, my step-sister and I saw an ad for the new iPod at the time. Somehow, I got the idea of an iPod for cats and dogs called the iPaw, and I made a new version of the iPod in Photoshop, complete with paw-shaped buttons and an animal-themed display. Cats and dogs like music too, you know.