Over woke
Advertising is part art, part science, but mostly psychology. Most people think beer ads should be about beer and the party or refreshment that goes with it. Likewise, most people that drive and buy cars expect their car would be a representative of them, their personality and their status. Allegedly, Jaquar (the premium sports car company) came out with a new ad to promote what they are going to do next year to redesign their cars. The ad (linked below) certainly says any Jaguar person is different and out of the ordinary. Most folks in the media and in the car market think Jaguar is trying to make themselves even less attractive to car buyers with the ad that has very unusual people singing and swaying to some music with no car or transportation of any kind to be seen. Actually this ad may get people talking, but not about how great their new cars will be, but how strange the company is and therefore how strange any buyer would have to be. Judge for yourself. Would you want people to see you driving a Jaguar and think you are one of the alleged people in this ad?
Jaguar may be a few years out of touch, but they are not alone.
Recently, Vienna, Austria celebrated the 150th anniversary of its “Hochquellen-Leitung” — the pipeline that brings water into the city. Vienna’s modern water system — renowned for its pristine water that courses from streams in the green forests of the Alps — was set up in 1873 under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Rather than mark the occasion with a small get-together, the city decided to think bigger. We can do better than a party, let’s bring in the art group to create a brand new fountain created by the avantgarde art group Gelitin. The piece, WirWasser (roughly translated as “We are Water”) features several, uh, things?
The statue has not done very well with the taxpayers, especially considering its astronomical price, $2 million. Inaugurated on October 24th in the presence of Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen, Vienna’s newest water fountain quickly attracted mass criticism on social media platforms with lots of people dubbing it the ugliest water fountain they had ever seen. Others going as far as claiming that it damages Vienna’s image. While officials hailed the fountain’s “extraordinary, reality-inspired” design for skillfully conveying a pivotal “sense of togetherness,” critics took issue with its artistic properties, venting their anger online. Would you want that in your public square, or your front yard?d
Ugly humor
Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth.
Can you tell me where I can sell it in Australia?
A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.
I sent my picture to a lonely hearts web site.
They sent it back with an email saying, “We are not that lonely.”
The unluckiest person in the world did actually find the fountain of youth.
Unfortunately, he drowned.
I saw a man chased by a dog. They were running around a big fountain. I told the man to hurry up because the dog is very close.
The man replied confidently: “Don’t worry, I’m 2 laps ahead.”
November 22nd Birthdays
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, 1961 – Muriel Hemingway, and Scarlett Johansson,
1996 – Katherine McNamara
1958 – Mark Ruffalo, 1978 – Joe Nieves , 1989 – Jamie Campbell Bower,
1921 – Rodney Dangerfield