Still in the process of working with my subvertisement, but I just wanted to post an advertisement that caught my attention. It stood out among all the other advertisements placed on Dundas Square.


















It's pretty neat. A ladder going down, making it look like someone climbed down the ladder to take a drink out of the glass bottle of Coke.

PeMA Take Two

I changed'er slightly. I had it saved as a pdf so this is a cropped screen capture.

Katrina

I settled on doing the World of Warcraft subvertisement, but I unfortunately have yet to get it done because I had another essay that was due today and a presentation that was yesterday.

Luckily, extensions were given to me until Friday night. There is a 1% deduction for every late day, I think? I'll double check that.

Seems as if today's the last day of class for this course. I can safely say that I thoroughly enjoyed the course and its content. There should be more courses like this available in the university.

Schiavi del Lusso

... here is my final remix ad. The headline reads "Slaves of Luxury", which accurately describes the conditions faced by the workers manufacturing luxury goods, and is also a subversion of the Marchesa name, which means noblewoman.

(My essay is on unethical labor practices in the luxury goods industry.)

I'm in Paris (working).
I went to Nanterre yesterday, where the May 1968 events began. Didn't find any inspiration for my paper though.
Flying back tonight, hopefully I can find inspiration for my paper on the plane ... eek.
-Kelly

Revision for Subvertisement

I am still totally stumped on redoing my subvertisement. I should be able to figure it out tonight though for sure, I seriously do not have enough time to be slacking off on this thing. The first subvertisement didn't go that well; it just did not have enough depth in it. It was simply a naked woman with oranges as breasts. That's all it was, plain and simple. Can't get anywhere with that kind of ad, especially when you have to write an 8-10 page essay on it.

I came up with two ideas. The first idea is with the video game, Warcraft.
What I planned to do is have the logo and image of the fictional Warcraft character. It was the game of the year back then, but instead of having the "Game of the Year" words on the box of the game, I would replace it with "Drug of the Year" or replace it altogether and put "It'll Fuck up Your Life" or something along those lines.
The second idea involves the Honda Civic vehicle.
The car has become notoriously infamous for having the reputation of being the most stolen car in North America. I want to think of something that would make fun of this product. Currently, I'm thinking of an image a Honda Civic without a door on the drivers side. Or possibly an image of a person in the process of breaking into the car.

Wish me luck. I wish myself luck, this is going to be toughhh.

By the way, great post about us complaining regarding our daily endeavors, Katrina. It kind of set me in a more appreciative mood after I read that. However, we're humans and we always have to find something to complain about. Nothing can be perfect in our lives.

Animals and Humans

I just finished reading an article for our final essay, and the different theories regarding the moral treatment of animals are really interesting. I think one of the things that is frustrating me about my topic is that the theories used for the discourse about whether vegetarianism as morally correct treatment of animals all kind of contradict themselves. For example, from a utilitarian perspective the article talks about how not killing animals, if the purpose would simply be for taste, is moral because it would allow for more utility than killing them. However, it also argues, that between a dog dying and a human dying, a human should be the one who lives because of the greater amount of utility. However, this is all reasoning from the perspective of humans because I am sure dogs would consider a living dog and a dead human to be of greater utility.

I don't know. I am of the opinion that humans are exceptional beings. And furthermore, that humans are meant to eat meat (just like other animals are meant to eat meat). I guess if people are going argue on behalf of the animals, I would like an example of a theory the consideration of animals equal to humans, but I still haven't seen one that doesn't demonstrate within itself that humans have greater entitlement.

I'm not anti-vegetarian, I'm just not vegetarian. If you have thoughts on this please comment. I like know other opinions.