Oreo Elevator Ad

Thanks to Street Attack for this one:



Very cool. Advertising is everywhere around us nowadays and often times the only exposure that people get to it is the second when walking by it, clicking by it, or driving by it. For someone to actually stop and look at an advertisement, even if just for a few seconds (hopefully not when driving), it has to immediately grab their attention. Creativity is key, and something like this can get people's attention, make them smile, and make them remember it.

After watching the video, the related videos reminded me of the funny ads that were running for Domino's Oreo Pizza. I liked the original best but this one is good too:

Scalping Dark Knight Tickets

So remember how I posted about The Dark Knight last week, and hoped that scalpers wouldn't turn to the movie theater? Well, they did:

Scalpers Hawk Dark Knight Tickets on eBay, Craigslist

*Sigh*

Don't let these "entrepreneurs" make money off of you!

No TV/Internet/Video Games

So long story short, I'm living in an apartment with no TV, Internet access, or video games for the next couple of weeks. Admittedly, there is still a TV in my parents room with cable access (which I peeked into to watch Jeopardy the other night). But it's been an experience the past couple of nights without these sources of entertainment.

Constant entertainment is becoming a standard throughout the country. Notice where you see televisions in places where you wait - the gas station, the supermarket checkout, etc. And some people even put TV's in their bathroom - it makes me think of Back to the Future, when Marty's at dinner at his mom's house (in the past):

Lorraine: "Our first television set...Dad just picked it up today...do you have a television?"
Marty: "Well yeah, you know, we have...two of them"
Wayne from The Wonder Years: "Wow, you must be rich!"
Lorraine's Mom: "Oh honey, he's just teasing you...nobody has two television sets"

Try going home one night and not turning on the TV. Or the computer. Or the video game system. It's easy for me right now because I don't have the option - I challenge you to do it when you do have the option.

Batman: The Dark Knight

I'd be curious to know how many people are going to be "sick" next Friday, July 18th, opening day of easily the most buzzed about movie this year, if not in the past few as well. NY Times wrote an article about theaters already selling out of the midnight showings, in addition to the 3 am screenings. This has led to theaters across the country scheduling 6 AM shows...6 freakin' AM! These movie theaters better consider selling breakfast food - "Bacon N' Batman" would sell to me.

I remember going to see a midnight screening of Star Wars: Episode III. Thankfully, other people were willing to save us seats far in advance, but people had been sitting in that theater all day with laptops, running a Star Wars DVD marathon. There's no doubt people are planning on watching every Batman movie before going to the theater for this one - personally, I watched the most recent Batman Begins a couple of nights ago. And I could go for the first two - Tim Burton did an awesome job with those. But Joel Schumacher did a half-ass job with the 3rd and 4th ones, even though Arnold is hilarious:



It's incredible how a superhero franchise can include films with that nonsense and the one that will be coming out next week. It's also incredible how film releases are capable of creating buzz and selling nowadays. With online sales of tickets, weeks in advance of a release, films are becoming like concerts. Demand has grown for certain releases like this to be seen immediately. Let's hope the scalpers stay away.

Nike Football Ads

I love the last couple of Nike Football advertisements that I've seen. And football in this sense is the "football" that most associate with outside of the United States. [Not American Football] Who was behind the naming of all of these sports anyways?

One of these commercials came out a while ago and I first saw it online, but also saw it during some of the UEFA Euro Cup games on TV. It's a cool first-person view of being a player and it can definitely extend the boundaries internationally considering soccer/football is watched all over the world. It just might annoy the haters of Club Arsenal considering that team is the focus:



The other one that I just saw, I'm guessing, is being televised in Italy considering it's an Italian player (both nationally and as a club player for AC Milan): Andrea Pirlo. It's another one of those "is this real or what" kinds of sports ads (I'm leaning toward the "what") but either way, it's amusing: