Smart Packaging

This one of my favorite bottles ever because DUH, it's so eye catching.
But the amazing part about it doesn't come until you read the bottle.
The language it uses is sarcastic and is guaranteed to make you want to buy it. I mean, they are up against all the brands that sell water, AND tap so they really have no choice.

But anyway, I just wanted to blog about it! lol.



(And on the inside of the bottle there are pictures and words, it just makes you look a it in detail, good job Smart Water!)

UrbanD

One of the most influential sites of our time and generation is definitely UrbanDictionary.com.

I don't think there's anything like this 2.0 site! What happens is, people take slang (and words that are in the dictionary that are used as slang) and they give them a definition. Multiple people can define it, but the people who look up the word can either yay or nay definitions, and the one with the most yays stays on top.

It's just crazy to think about like, what did people do 20 years ago? Lol, ask?!

I even defined my own words on the site, it's pretty cool.

It's also silly how people from different places define things lol.

Meh. (look that up =))

Future Winters

I started this cool series kind of thing in my poetry class that I like to call Future Winters (working title); sooner or later I'm going to come up with a better one.

But anyway it's all about my life in the future.
I hate the winter. It always brings times of just cold weather and cold feelings, trees lose their leaves, people get sick, and things are harder; which is kind of the attitude that I wanted to give off. I'm also a bit of a hopeless romantic so it is going to shine a lot in these poems.
Maybe I will change the title again because I may write about summer or spring too... hmmm the possibilities of these poems and of the future.

Anyway, I thought it was kind of neat to think of moments like that in the first place, nonetheless write some poetry about it, haha.

The whole idea of it is going to be the thought of alternate realities because I don't know what's really going to happen, but it's interesting.
Here is one of the 2 I've already written.

36°F(uture)

Five years later
I’m
Pushing my Chevy
Malibu down
Broadway and
10th,

With the heat on;
WXNY calls for the snow
storm of the century
and I’m flippin’ out.

Real Uggs
on my feet
finally; thinking
how did I get this far?
with no
one by my side;

I had been
Searching in my mind;
and everywhere,
Bars, clubs, coffee shops,
for what I thought
would complete me--
but the Verizon
target audience is all that
resonates
in my head.
“It feels like winter in here,”

I say;
for the first
time,
in a long
time,
standing on my stoop.

The first
snowflake
fell to the ground.

Kind of like a preview.
Meh.

Open Web Awards

So I'm completely intrigued by this thing Mashable.Com calls the Open Web Awards.

I mean like. Wtf.
This stuff is so epic.

Awards for online stuff?
This is actually their third year doing this and I think it's a great idea, I mean they have awards for a bunch of other random stuff right?

They have many categories that just go right at social media and technology and wtf I'm just amazed.

But anyway they have categories about what company used each of the social networking sites the best with branding, best Facebook App, best news website, best mobile game, best actress to follow, best blog, Twitpic of the year, etc.

The voting takes place on all the social media sites and people tweet about it, etc.

I think it's just amazing.

Web 2.0 at it's finest.

MAIP

Really hype about this internship.
Even though it's finals, and I'm highly stressed out,
I'm still finding time to work on this application and essays and stuff.
Rargh.

But I really want it so hey,
you gotta work for what you want right?

I'm learning that the hard way.

This advertising stuff is NOT easy and for anyone who thinks so they can kick rocks.
It's a lot of work and it takes a person with a lot of dedication and ambition to survive.

I got this. =)

More Cool Packaging

I've been really big on packaging lately because I think it's super awesome and I keep seeing interesting things in random places.
Packaging is the first thing people see when they are about to buy something, and I think it's super cool to have somethin unique to wrap your product in.

I recently came across these holiday Coke bottles and they are INSANEEEE!!



They look like ornaments aaahhhhh.
I just wanna hang em on a tree!

[The only difficulty is they may be hard to put in a cup holder, poop.]

Insights in the Strangest Places

Riding down the street earlier, I saw the stupid Wendy's sign and wondered why it's so old fashioned. Why they never really went modern and why they chose red as their main color...?

I mean of course there's all the obvious reasons but I want it there to be deeper meaning behind everything in life so I assume it's something....

Aliens maybe?

I don't know but it made me realize how crazy my mind is. Haha.

I've never in my life been this observant,
and I'm pretty observant so this is extreme.

I just think it's funny how everything gets so much thought now-a-days.
I'm going to go ahead and blame it on these thinking classes.
This so called 'gift' will continue to grow.

But it's a good thing.

BIG PEN BIG PEN.

We started selling these at work at Staples and I thought the packaging was pretty awesome. It's a big pen with a whole bunch of regular pens inside of it lol.

Simple concept but cool. The big pen turns into a piggy bank!

Neat-o! lol.

Mmmm, oatmeal.

This stuff is comedy gold.
It's cawled The Oatmeal and I can't stop clicking on this stuff because it makes me lol.
It's this cool website that has random lists and quizzes of random things in life that are obviously sarcastic... well some of them are pretty serious but it's all funny nonetheless.
One of my favorite ones was


Other funny ones include the 9 types of crappy handshakes and 8 ways to tell if your loved ones plan to eat you.

Haha!

While I was looking at this stuff I was thinking why is this so funny? It's just ridiculous and I applaud their efforts.

tadow!

AWNY

So I went to the AWNY Conference this week in in New York and it was quite awesome.
I had sooo many insights about advertising and life.

One of the things that were constantly talked about was our constant conversation about the change in advertising (and life) because of technology.
We're all getting so busy and multi-tasky with our lives, and DVR /TiVo is getting out of control, so traditional advertising is sooo not what's poppin' anymore.
Advertising is going straight digital and we're getting less and less time to get our word out.
So what we create is going to have to be REALLY good and 'sticky' as Scott would say, and people are going to have to remember it.
OOH (Out of Home) advertising is the second fastest growing medium in the world, guess what's first? I shouldn't even have to say it.

But anyway, overall the conference was off the chains and I'm more than glad I went!

Insights!

Mashable.com


This website, might just define my life.
It's this cool bloggish site that has all the info on all that is social networking, technology and the internet. It connects people to Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. Any website that's influenced by Web 2.0 and just life, interaction, and all that is sweet on the internet.
I realized that every topic on there was interesting and compelling to me, and they are things I care about.

SO. In life. I want to work with something like this. In the Digital/Interactive/Internet Marketing/Media field, I can sit behind a computer forever if I have to!
These things are what keeps me compelled, these things never cease to amaze me.
Which is another reason why I love to blog.
In here and all over.

This is my futureeee!!!

Ode to The Blank Page

Dear Blank Page,
Where do I begin...?
Cuz all I know is

you are not
a friend to me
you give me hopes
unrealistically
that call for action.
O,
how will I ever get
past this?
when you poke and pester me
with a
vengeance.

Such a bully you
know that?
when I see you I run;
get a ton of nerves and
butterflies
in my tummy, you
make me weak.

I wanna grab some
yellow paint and just
splash it in your center
like a summer day
in winter
out of the or-
dinary,
you make art
excessively scary,
cuz with this solemn swear
of hate
you carry;
a vengeance.

Look at me I'm
flippin' out
without out a clue
of my next move;
move,
on to the next one...

cuz even with the most ideas
and the most thought put
into it,
you stay still and
empty like
you have no soul-
and when you have no soul
I have no soul.

so tell me if I add
my spice and flava
to your abyss,
will you still haunt me
for the rest of my life?

And keep coming back
with a
vengeance?

Oh look, you
aren't so blank anymore.

Yo Verizon is WRONG for this one.

So clearly I get a kick out of watching Verizon go at the iPhone but this might have pushed it to the limit lmao.
But yeah this is too great. One of my favorite things is advertising is when someone makes a big joke or parody out of something well known.
All I gotta say is I hope Verizon can live up to going in on the iPhone or else that'll just be an EMBARRASSMENT. ahahaha.

Human Joystick

Thought this was pretty awesome.
I know there's alot of this kind of thing is pretty common now with the whole Wii thing and the eye-toy with playstaion and everything.
But the concept of having the whole theater work together to play this game was amazing and interactive and it connects the people in the theater even though everyone might not have known eachother.

Team efforts!


SN: It occurred to me though, what's with this creepy futuristic music that's always in ambient videos? Lol it's cool but wwhaattt??

Album Cover

Just something I've been working on.
It's an album cover, some crap I made up of course, but an album cover nonetheless.
Not really done with it yet though I don't believe.



But anyway, I let this rose that this boy gave me rot for like a month. And it stayed in tact and didn't fall apart or anything, and I'd been planning for the perfect rainy day to do the shoot. I took a lot of pictures of it, but of course I wish I'd taken more.

Yeah man.
This is cool.

[[SN: I felt like a full blown emo kid while taking these pictures lol.]]

Man that's a big gummy bear, wtf.

So I randomly came across this website of the most AWESOME products.

Vat19.com

(If it wasn't so expensive I may have ordered something lol.)
But anyway these people push past the ordinary and go for the different and unexpected; cool if you will.
But I thought it was worth noting and checking out.
Here are some of their sweet ones I came across!




This is a 16oz heated travel mug that can be plugged into your car or computer's USB port to keep drinks warm. Wtf. lol.



The world's largest gummy bear. Nothing more to say. And yes, you can eat this thing. lol.


Pencil and notebook SOCKS.


A USB hub that looks like a tape! Just freakin' sweet man.

Early Inspiration.

I randomly just discovered the uh, first ad I ever did in life I believe. It's really dumb lol. It wasn't published anywhere but myspace in my photos... but it was supposed to be an ad nonetheless. lol
Junior year in high school, I came up with this company that you call if you want to kill yourself.



It was a joke lol.
But I wrote an entire ad for it. I forgot it but I remember it was hilarious, and from then on I knew I was supposed to be in advertising. I even wrote a jingle, I think I remember that though. LOL.

1 800 I'll Kill
for when your friends have got you
against your will,
so if youre feelin' suicidal
and you're gonna gauge your eye out,
or jump off a building,
or hang from the ceiling,
pick up the phone and call us!

LMAO.

I had people in my class that knew this stupid song, gladly took a picture doing the hand thing (it's supposed to be the finger gun as a phone), and asked me to do the whole all the time commercial just because.

It may not have been a great idea, but it was an idea, and I been crankin' out ads since before I even knew I was meant for it, and now one day I'm going be doing it for a living.

Oh life.

"I think I annoyed them, I got on their nerves..."

Wow.
This guy.

My friend sent me this weird YouTube German commercial yesterday. And apparently it was "lmaoaoaoao loloololl lls ahahahahaaahahaa!!!11!1!!11!" funny.

I clicked on it and watched it. The whole 2 minutes and something. And I didn't laugh once. I actually thought it was kind of sad.
See, in advertising they do/should go after people's emotions. Whether it is making them laugh, feel sad, feel compassion, feel... SOMETHING.
But it's just funny to think about how different people react to advertising in different ways. Not only can it come from perspective alone, but how a person is feeling at that moment, or your environment, anything can influence your feeling towards an ad.

I was enlightened by this. Just thought it was worth noting. lmaoaoaloamaao lol lol. -__-

Litter Fun

Richmond is a polluted place. But hey, every where is.
But one thing I noticed is that it's really hard to walk down the street without seeing some trash.
And me being the weirdling I am, I just love to look at it; figure out what it is; where it came from.
Because the thing is, every piece of litter has a story.

What makes me lol is, if someone else sees it, they have no idea why it's there; nor do they care usually.
But I do.
My crazy mind always causes me to generate ideas on people's litter... why, I don't know. But I thought I'd share some of my randomness.

It was clearly too late to go to the liquor store.
711 it is.
"I'ma get a Red Four," said Shelly.
"Mayne, you know that jank is mad nasty , and it ain't gon do nothin' but give you a stomach ache," Wanda said back.
Shelly pulled the Four Loko off the top shelf. "But hey, it's gonna get the job done, how I'ma ever tell Jon how I feel today without this stuff in me!?"
"Well whatever," Wanda said.
After buying a couple drinks, they went back to Ashley's house to finish getting ready and pre-gaming for Have a Nice Day Cafe.
At approximately 11:17pm, October 10, 2009, Toya pulled up to Wanda's apartment building and called for them all to come across Grace street to where she was parked.
"Wait a minute! I'm not done with my drink yet!" Shelly screamed, stumbling in her new magenta heels.
Well then you gon hafta chug it on our way downstairs, Ashley said on her way out of the door, "Come On!"
They all rushed out of the building down the stairs, as Shelly struggled to finish her drink before they got to Toya's car.
"Ahhhh finished!" Shelly said as she took her last sip and a seat.
"Don't leave that empty can in my car!" Toya shouted.





Kenneth is weird guy.
He only has a few select friends and an interest in bugs. One of those kids who rides his bike to class and acts like no one else on the road exists.
Last night he went to Mcdonald's with one of the only friends he has, Laura, who happens to be his first love.
"I love me some Quarter Pounders, Half-a Pounder, POUNDER!" he dorkingly said to her with a smile on his face.
They continued to enjoy their time there, and he paid of both their meals with the money he makes working as the guy who dims the lights at the Landmark Theater.
Sitting at the table, they encountered a moment of silence, so Laura took out a few ketchup packets out of the bag.
"Eat Ketchup!" she yelled and threw it at him.
He laughed and decided to keep a packet in his pocket, you know, for sentimental value.
The next day, he decided he was going to finally tell him how he felt about her.
"I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it!" he wrote in his internet journal.
10 minutes later on October 15, 2009 at 3:23pm, he got a call from her.
"OOHHH guess what, Kenneth, Joe finally asked me to be his girlfriend!"
He was speechless;
Desperate for a way out.
"That's great, Laura," he eventually said trying to sound enthusiastic, "I gotta go."
He immediately got on his bike and felt like riding to the end of the world.
Wearing the same jacket he wore the previous day, he discovered the packet he saved and threw it on the ground, angrily.
Joe happened to be the one who stepped on it 26 minutes later.




It was Lisa's 20th birthday. In the middle of the 2 birthdays that really mattered, but her friends wanted to make it matter.
"Let's get bout 4 Lil' Ceas Pizzas! Get drunk, act a fool!" one of her best friends Nick said.
"You know I don't drink, Nick," Lisa said sternly.
"You will next year, even if I have to pour it down your throat!" he said laughing.
"That's what she said!" Sheila added out of no where.
They all laughed hysterically.
The next day was the planned party. Nick went out with some of the people who were going to the party and got pizza, 2 bottles of cheap Vodka, and a six pack of Sprite.
"What's the 6 pack for Sprite for?" Lisa asked while they were all walking home from shopping.
"For yo non-drinkin ass, and for our chasers duuhhh," he said.
She laughed out loud. "Noooo why only 6?"
"Oh cause we ain't got no more money in the party fund," he giggled shamelessly.
Theo, Jenny, Larry and DeeDee claimed their Sprites quickly.
Lisa went to pull off the last of the two for herself and Nick, and didn't know what to do with the ring holder.
"These things kill whales!" she said.
So what!" as he knocked it out of her hand.




Now, for the fun part.
What do you guys think happened here?

Is this even legal?!!

Verizon Wireless rips off Apple and slaps AT&T in the face so hard;;
I feel as though it might not be legal... lol.
Is it ethical? lol.




Clearly a world championship fight.

[[Gooooooo Verizon!]]

Ambient Media

In class today, learning about ambient media and about to be doing a project on it, inspired me to research some and I must admit that this stuff is pretty awesome and epic!

I was excited to look at it, and come to my own definition of it without looking it up word for word. What I came up with is that ambient media is message that is saying something by not just saying it, but changing people's perceptions on things by turning something ordinary into something extraordinary. It's about making statements boldly and not being afraid to overstep boundaries; it's about it making a person think about something more than they normally would; it's about getting people to say 'wow that's friggin cool'; and it's about interacting with the consumers!

But yeah. Anyway, here are a few coolnessness things I found.






SCHWEET!

S0B3R.

Got a vanilla Coke by my side --
chillin.
Me and my vanilla Coke.
We go together like water and glue
and you
just sit there.
with your beer and your malt liquor
and your hands on your head,
laughing
without a care in the world.

I'm one of those new age girls;
with that new age shit
got my new age bitch
asking me questions i can't answer
right away
because I'm fad-
ed.
because i'm jad-
ed.
lost in a moment I can't find my way out of
because my vanilla Coke and I
become one once again
and i once again
feel illegit.

Sometimes i feel like I
can't be alone
on my own.
But I can when I feel like it.
and I like it--
This guy
all on my jock,
my dude, you ain't worth it
back up and find a new one
I ain't
Tha one
you lookin for.

I'm too new age for you
and my mind is dancing in circles
can you handle
that,
my dude?
I've fallen and I can't get up
she keeps talking
and I can't shut up;
and now I can't hear...
"what's this disney channel shit you always listen to?"
he seems to say to me
"i don't know man,
it's just sweet"
I said back.
He don't know me like that,
not forreal anyway.

So until I meet
something sweet
like this vanilla Coke number 2.
or 3.
4 maybe.
I can't control
this feeling maybe
I should slow
down
and examine what's around me maybe
I
can't,
or I won't.

Cuz this vanilla Coke and me
we
go together like oreos and
orange juice.
I'm so loose
forgive me now,
for I am lost in my shadow
once again
and I
once again
am done and over.

Got bored and intox and wrote... lol.

Food... mmm...

I was having a conversation with my friend who is seeing/talking to/dating/idolizing(lol) this Jamaican Rasta guy, who definitely has different values and views on life than we do. (We all smoke every now and then but you know. lol)

But anyway she was telling me about how he's a vegetarian and only sees eating as a way to nourish his body and doesn't really care about it. And she went on to explain that she didn't know what do as a date with this guy.

Now that's so funny to think about.

Us as American's we don't even realize it, but we kind of center our lives around food.
It's a social thing, an emotional thing, a fun thing, a cultural thing, and just everything to us!

If you go out wit your friends half the time what are you going to do eventually? Eat. Family? Eat. Boyfriend? Eat.

And we're also EXTREMELY greedy. I mean have you SEEN the plates they serve at the Cheesecake factory my gawd they're huge!

And when we cry, we run to ice cream and sweets, when we're happy and want to celebrate it's like 'hey! let's all go out to eat!' It's somebody's birthday, where's the cake?

Just a bunch of connections we have to this stuff.

And we eat it for the taste, not because we need to. And half the time, heh, probably more than half, it's something that's not so great for our health.

So next time you eat, do it cause you need to not because you feel like it!

...okay now I'm hungry.

Oh Baby put the bottle down.

Does it make me an alch if every time I see side walks like this, I think of a drink?
Haha, there are mad random sidewalk shapes in this alley I walk in every day and I can't help but notice every nook and cranny I walk on. The bottle one is my ultimate fave though clearly.
But overall, there are some pretty terrible things back there and I just get weird feelings and smells and vibes I get from that place. It's pretty creepy but it gets my senses going.

SN: My camera phone is pretty great.

And if you want to be me, be me. And if you want to be you, be you.

What's with bogus commercials these days?
I often sit here and think about it, not only because I am an advertising major, but because I'm also a consumer.
Marketing is just such a funny thing.

Because we're in the 21st century, the technology age, the age of the new age, we tend to be so busy; too busy to even look up at the TV when we're watching, or we're listening to music while doing homework, or texting and driving, haha.

But I was facebooking while the TV was on, and I sat here singing to myself a commercial that I realized I had never even seen before.

"I took my classes online, got my degree on my own time!"
(wtf?)

I said to my friend, 'I didn't even know what this stupid commercial looked like!' (and in all honesty, I wish I had never seen it).

It made me realize how quickly people can get the message, and how amazing it really is that people can get that without always concentrating on it. Our brains are getting smaller, but we can handle so much more as far as noise goes. It's just a silly thought though, that we don't even have to like a product, or their advertising, or anything about it to get their message. It makes me think of Whipple, the Charmin guy. Everyone hated him, but he was so epic.

Now, see how many annoying commercials you know without realizing it!

Another random commercial I finally paid attention to:


Rargh it's just so damn catchy!

CAUTION.

This caution tape comes from a random drunk walk home alone. I decided to put it on my wall some kind of way because it is extra awesome.
It's just so timeless and simple and it's funny how some things never change. I walked around with it in my back pocket thinking, "What if caution tape was green and in cursive font? or if it were black with white letters or if it were as big as a mural on the side of the wall, or even just smaller or didn't have that much space between the middle of the words? Or maybe even different WORDS?"
I just kept thinking that even something so simple as this caution tape, usually used to ward people away from an area of warning, something bad, can be used so many times and it's just something no one forgets.
I want to create something like that one day.
Simple and unforgettable.

Hey People.

This is my 450 STYLE blog.
Yay.
Luckily I'm a part time blogger right? But unfortunately I blog about my life so, this may be a bit different, but apparently not too different because advertising is going to be my life right?

Right.

Welcome.