Half Informed

Source Tweet: @morb01 Check this video out — Big Brother ad by doubleTwist http://bit.ly/YvqWZ

Source Video: YouTube

It’s nice to see Apple get a little jab. I have no idea what the hell doubleTwist is but with Apple’s guerilla ad campaign against Microsoft with Justin Long this is Karma.

Apple long ago had the Big Brother ad as their poke at Microsoft, this was the beginning of a long campaign with an anti-Microsoft overtone hardwired deep within it’s core.  The original idea was that everyone was being controlled, brainwashed and always watched by Microsoft.

But FFWD>> on Apple to today and they have transformed into what they once swore against.

• The being controlled: Apple’s exclusive carrier privileges to AT&T  in the USA and Rogers in Canada just to name one
• Brainwashed: “Mac is a state of mind” And the overall feeling of being ‘in the club’ a Apple Product Owner feels and flaps their gums nonstop about later on. It happened.
• Watching You: Do you honestly think Genius is 100% anonymous even when they say they are not going to peek?

Now don’t get me wrong here. I am not Anti-Apple. But I don’t own a single Apple product. But I have used them and I find the Mac OS a well refined and sleek Operating System. All the native Apple apps are intuitive and using them feels easy and sententious. They are rich in features and once you get over the Windows to Mac learning curve you are set. And the inclusion of a UNIX like console is such an added bonus.

My only dislikes about Apple is the price point on the products. That and and I don’t feel like joining the herd.

Source Tweet: @nickdreweBanned Bud Light ‘In The Can’ ad - http://j.mp/jKEqp

Source Article: You Tube

When I first read this I seen  … Can’ ad… and was thinking Canada. And I was hoping to be able to run on a piece about how the CRTC are idiots.

But today it looks as if I get to poke a little more fun at the more well known FCC I guess. That is the US governing body on communications I think? Who ever it is that decides what is allowed to be publicly broadcasted OTA (over the air) probably had a few gears going off in their head when they are screening this one.

On one hand, everyone and sometimes their dog has a TV. So what they allow to be shown on the airwaves has to be acceptable in the bible belt, more or less.  I don’t see 1-900 commercials with scantly clad women in bikinis trying to convince me that it is going to be her on the end of the phone line I’m talking to instead of working a brass pole at your local speakeasy. No they reserve that time slot for life insurance commercials, trying to suck cash from the elderly before their mind completely goes. I don’t know if this is a regulation or a demographics thing. Either way it is like shooting fish in a barrel.

On the other hand. In this world of global networks almost anyone that has access to media like TV has access to the internet. To a point where people in recent and current war torn countries are pounding Twitter with feeds on the local elections and current uprisings. But when you try to deny people of something. Something so harmless as a suggestive commercial? Man your asking for it.

When you deny to public of something they are going to want to see why. And therefore you are going to make it viral and everyone is going to want to see it. Kids are going to be downloading them to their mobile media devices and bringing them to school.

But is this a ploy by the advertising giants? Do they spend all that cash on commercials just racy enough where they know it wont be seen on TV but they can feed it to the media after and see it grow like wildfire? If this is the case then they are getting the additional kick back of having their product be branded “The Choice of Bad Asses”.

Now here is the kicker. I send this to my mother to watch, now she isn’t some biker mom and she isn’t a prude. She has been known to get a good laugh out of some pretty sick jokes but there is a limit. She watched the video and didn’t get the “take it in the ass” undertones. “I would have never thought dirty!” she said.