I would love to begin by kindly asking you to view this video:
In case you didn't get it or the link goes down and you want to Google it, the title of the video by Gillette ( yes the razor company) is "How to shave your groin- Shaving tips from Gillette".
It is interesting to see how desperate advertising has become. This statement is not only supported by the Gillette video but an advertisement I saw today in the Wall Street Journal. It was an advertisement begging for advertising from ABC. It said " the channel where the viewers buy brands". I don't know about you, but this is a pretty desperate attempt from a HUGE network to arrange for some big name brands to buy their advertising space. Not only is television suffering. While I was in New Jersey and New York last week, I was reading in the New York Times ( I think?), about how the Public Transit systems on the East Coast are suffering from reduced Ad purchases, which unbeknown to many subsidize the costs.
Well this video is a prime example of using Social Media to hit a target audience. Young people and increasingly people my parents age are browsing YouTube and other online media sites daily. While Gillette's ad may be shocking, referring to raunchy and indelicate topics, it allows them to penetrate and reach a market that is most likely diminishing, while spending minimal advertising dollars. It will interesting to see how the shift of Google AdWords, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. ultimately change the landscape of advertising in the United States and Globally. It certainly has already begun, and has brought out bold and interesting campaigns. Just something to contemplate and observe as our economy bounces turbulently through 2009.
That's all folks!
xoxo
The Dame
May 27, 2009
May 3, 2009
Freak Nasty
Rant of the Day
Have you ever been to a bar, you are dancing and you have that solo creeper who moves from girl to girl in your group...never seeming to read the very apparent "get the f**k away from me" body language you are throwing their way?
That in short, was a summary of my last night, but instead of 1 creepy fellow there was a gaggle of them... like 6. We were totally outnumbered. It felt like we were being surrounded and cornered by a group of lions, and hey, at least lions are cute. Ultimately I have a really hard time balancing my idea that people are generally out to have a good time, not sinisterly prey on others, and that it is part of a dance floor scene for people to intrude on personal space etc. But, I also think that people, perhaps due to alcohol, purposefully ignore the blatant, and I do mean blatant, signs that someone is uncomfortable, not having a good time and wants them to back off.
I think, in total out of the approximately 45 minutes that I danced last night 40 of them were spent dancing away from the "creeper" or physically pushing them away. It eventually came down to whether we wanted to leave the dance floor or blatantly tell them to get the heck away. We chose to leave the dance floor. It is gross to me, that a group of girls needs to dance with each other in order to fend off unwelcome dance partners.
It would be nice to dance in comfort and free of worry.
XOXO
the Dame
Have you ever been to a bar, you are dancing and you have that solo creeper who moves from girl to girl in your group...never seeming to read the very apparent "get the f**k away from me" body language you are throwing their way?
That in short, was a summary of my last night, but instead of 1 creepy fellow there was a gaggle of them... like 6. We were totally outnumbered. It felt like we were being surrounded and cornered by a group of lions, and hey, at least lions are cute. Ultimately I have a really hard time balancing my idea that people are generally out to have a good time, not sinisterly prey on others, and that it is part of a dance floor scene for people to intrude on personal space etc. But, I also think that people, perhaps due to alcohol, purposefully ignore the blatant, and I do mean blatant, signs that someone is uncomfortable, not having a good time and wants them to back off.
I think, in total out of the approximately 45 minutes that I danced last night 40 of them were spent dancing away from the "creeper" or physically pushing them away. It eventually came down to whether we wanted to leave the dance floor or blatantly tell them to get the heck away. We chose to leave the dance floor. It is gross to me, that a group of girls needs to dance with each other in order to fend off unwelcome dance partners.
It would be nice to dance in comfort and free of worry.
XOXO
the Dame
April 30, 2009
Lazy crafter=busy student
Hello Again!
It has been a while since my last post and frankly that is because I have not done much crafting or cooking, but I have done plenty of procrastinating. It is interesting that procrastination really seems to get me in the areas of homework and excercise. When I have a job I am much better at excercise and doing my tasks, often ahead of time. I think it is a student mentality.
As far as crafting goes, I bought some shrinky-dinks and I am currently looking for the right size and good enough quality silver charm bracelet chain so I can make custom charm bracelets for my friends. I love crafting but I don't really stay on one craft at a time. Lately I have put down my knitting and embroidery, and been perusing the internet for craft ideas. I have found some really cute ideas on etsy.com. All of my ideas I find I save into a folder on my desktop called "crafts". In some cases I label the picture or file with the name of the person for which I intend to make the craft. I am hoping this comes in handy, most likely around Christmas time, when I need to start giving gifts.
Another favorite thing that I started is saving the funniest online comics and articles in a separate folder so I can 'remix' them into craft projects and personal cards later. I am also starting an 'art' folder to store photos of beautiful art, especially those that I found were personally touching. I am hoping this will help me decorate when I get my own place. I hate when I know exactly the look or the idea of art that I want and I cannot seem to find, despite my endless and relentless google searches. So this should help me avoid that problem.
It is nice to feel organized even in these small ways because, while school is really busy now, I know eventually and hopefully after graduation in August I will be able to craft after work. Now if I can just get an excercise regimen that I don't dread :).
Sorry that there aren't any amazing pictures this time, but I wanted to share my ideas!
Sincerely,
The Dame
It has been a while since my last post and frankly that is because I have not done much crafting or cooking, but I have done plenty of procrastinating. It is interesting that procrastination really seems to get me in the areas of homework and excercise. When I have a job I am much better at excercise and doing my tasks, often ahead of time. I think it is a student mentality.
As far as crafting goes, I bought some shrinky-dinks and I am currently looking for the right size and good enough quality silver charm bracelet chain so I can make custom charm bracelets for my friends. I love crafting but I don't really stay on one craft at a time. Lately I have put down my knitting and embroidery, and been perusing the internet for craft ideas. I have found some really cute ideas on etsy.com. All of my ideas I find I save into a folder on my desktop called "crafts". In some cases I label the picture or file with the name of the person for which I intend to make the craft. I am hoping this comes in handy, most likely around Christmas time, when I need to start giving gifts.
Another favorite thing that I started is saving the funniest online comics and articles in a separate folder so I can 'remix' them into craft projects and personal cards later. I am also starting an 'art' folder to store photos of beautiful art, especially those that I found were personally touching. I am hoping this will help me decorate when I get my own place. I hate when I know exactly the look or the idea of art that I want and I cannot seem to find, despite my endless and relentless google searches. So this should help me avoid that problem.
It is nice to feel organized even in these small ways because, while school is really busy now, I know eventually and hopefully after graduation in August I will be able to craft after work. Now if I can just get an excercise regimen that I don't dread :).
Sorry that there aren't any amazing pictures this time, but I wanted to share my ideas!
Sincerely,
The Dame
January 20, 2009
OH YA I DID
First Off
I loved Michelle Obama's dresses for the inauguration. People are disgusting how they look to criticize every little thing. It was appropriate, it looked warm and she looked happy. More importantly, the content of Obama's speech was amazing, accurate and insightful.
On another totally separate note I made it on the customer gallery for sublime stitching! The founder only puts up her favorites so it is pretty cool that i made it up there!
GO look
http://www.sublimestitching.com/node/2593
Love ya!
the dame
I loved Michelle Obama's dresses for the inauguration. People are disgusting how they look to criticize every little thing. It was appropriate, it looked warm and she looked happy. More importantly, the content of Obama's speech was amazing, accurate and insightful.
On another totally separate note I made it on the customer gallery for sublime stitching! The founder only puts up her favorites so it is pretty cool that i made it up there!
GO look
http://www.sublimestitching.com/node/2593
Love ya!
the dame
January 14, 2009
New Crafts for a New Year!
So I have been waiting on posting pictures of some of my crafts because they were Christmas presents and I always have a bad feeling about someone accidentally discovering what they may be receiving for Christmas. Overall though, the Holidays went off without a hitch ( Read: No giant family fight). I made a TON of things, mostly due to my lack of money. So I will be posting and talking about them over the next couple of weeks.
To start, lets look at the Our Lady of Guadalupe embroidery that I did on some aprons.
Here, you can see the differences in the color palate. The one on the left is the first Mary that I made. You can tell, because I did it the hard way. It took forever to make her look so smooth and finished. I filled in all the parts, whereas on the second Mary I went for stitching that showed movement in the fabric and some more vibrant colors. I made a third Mary, but I must have forgotten to take pictures of it! Besides the time that this project took, it was very inexpensive. I think I paid $3.00 each for the white canvas aprons, from a chef supply company that I found online, and then my mom had the embroidery floss already. It was fun to choose the colors, and mix it up a little bit. Of course my Aunt's and Mom love the aprons. As good Catholics, we love to strong female figures such as Mary and we also love to make fun of our religion so this is a beautiful, crafty, and Dainty mixture of the two!
That's all for now!
xoxo
The Dame
To start, lets look at the Our Lady of Guadalupe embroidery that I did on some aprons.
Here, you can see the differences in the color palate. The one on the left is the first Mary that I made. You can tell, because I did it the hard way. It took forever to make her look so smooth and finished. I filled in all the parts, whereas on the second Mary I went for stitching that showed movement in the fabric and some more vibrant colors. I made a third Mary, but I must have forgotten to take pictures of it! Besides the time that this project took, it was very inexpensive. I think I paid $3.00 each for the white canvas aprons, from a chef supply company that I found online, and then my mom had the embroidery floss already. It was fun to choose the colors, and mix it up a little bit. Of course my Aunt's and Mom love the aprons. As good Catholics, we love to strong female figures such as Mary and we also love to make fun of our religion so this is a beautiful, crafty, and Dainty mixture of the two!
That's all for now!
xoxo
The Dame
December 23, 2008
December 2, 2008
It's a Circus!!!
Today Britney Spears' new CD Circus came out. I am pretty impressed. I was reading reviews which mention that it sounds like a 'recycled version of the last CD' and while I disagree she did reuse the song Radar. I think it sounds really good, albeit some parts are super synthesized. The song My Baby really demonstrates Britney's vocal talents, which I think is due to the content of the song, as it is obviously about her children. My favorite song of the album as of now is Unusual You which discusses the expectation that people will fail to follow through and the unreliability of relationships and love. I know that Britney did not write all the songs but the songs that I love most are the ones that I think she felt more emotionally connected to the lyrics.
Thanks
The Dame
Thanks
The Dame
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