I'm Back!

Hokay so I've been gone for quite sometime! I've been spending so much time working on my portfolio that I haven't gotten the chance to idea vomit on here in far too long. But have no fear one person who reads my blog! I'm back and I'm here to stay! (at least until I decide to completely revamp my book again haha just kidding...hopefully).

Instinct

        Intuition, inherent tendency, inclination, urge, drive, compulsion, feeling, hunch, sixth sense, insight. Call it what you like. It consumes our decisions with a powerful force. Follow your gut or choose the rational choice? Or are those one in the same? Let our past failures dictate our choice for us? Or follow your gut just this one last time? Does taking a risk make you brave or careless? The line is so thin. What is the criteria for a brilliant idea and what is it for an insignificant one? Is simple intelligent? Will a simple presentation take away the complexity of the idea? Will it look as though no thought was given, even though an inexplicable amount was? Minutes upon hours upon days; molding, shaping, honing. Will taking this risk make the author seem overconfident or lazy even though that is the exact opposite of what they are and what they meant it to be? Is it right? 1,000 ideas and I can not escape this one. I cannot get it out of my mind. It is so simple yet so encompassing of everything I want to express. Choose. Make a decision. What will I do? What will you? 

Mumbai

Pray for India

On November 26, 2008

At least 7 locations in Mumbai, India were attacked by terrorists. The locations included two luxury hotels, restaurants, a hospital and a crowded bus station. The gunmen opened fire and launched grenades into the crowds. There are now believed to be 287 wounded and 195 killed. The most casualties resulting from the train station attack, where terrorists opened fire and threw grenades into the entire crowd. . The gunmen, at least in the restaurant, were known to be targeting Britons and Americans. They asked everyone who looked to be American or British what his or her heritage was, if they answered any other ethnicity, they were allowed to live. An organization known as the Deccan Mujahedeen has claimed responsibility for the attacks in e-mails to several media outlets. Police killed four suspected attackers and arrested nine others. That is not enough. 

Attacks like this are not just going to go away. It is sick that something like this actually happens. We, not as America but as the human race, need to do something. Tragedies like this happen more often than we would like to admit. We need to acknowledge it every time, not only when Americans are involved. We are affected every time another human or group of humans are injured or killed, whether we want to accept it or not. We are responsible for each other, regardless of race, class, or stereotypes. It is our obligation, and should be considered our privilege, to take care of each other and the earth that we are given. For the time that we are blessed with these things is short. 

What are you going to do about it?

Gunmen Attacks Across Mumbai Kill at Least 101, Others Held Hostage

Mumbai Attacks Foreshadow New Challenges in War on Terror

Ketchup...if that's even your real name?

Prepare yourself...I am about to blog about another blog. When I was writing about the influence of color on marketing I discussed Heinz Ketchup changing their product to green (not environmentally, literally). It was then that I decided that Ketchup is the weirdest word in the english language. 

Dear...tomato sauce mixed with vinegar and other spices in a glass or plastic bottle,

     Why are you so difficult? You have 3 different and yet correct ways to spellings of your name. Ketchup, Catsup or Catchup. But they are all pronounced the same! WHY? Do you think that you are so nice you were named thrice? You may be great on fries but you are not nearly as versatile as ranch or peanut butter. Are your three names aliases? Is that it? Are the other names widely known because you used them as pen names when you wrote your first novels because you were afraid they wouldn't be good enough? Answer me. I guarantee I am going to lose sleep over this question. 

Inquisitvely, 

A red tomato sauce mixed with vinegar and other spices in a glass or plastic bottle activist

p.s. Sometimes you are really hard to get out of glass bottles. You should tell more people that they can merely tap the 75 with their knuckle and you will happily pour onto their french fries. Or is that another secret you want to keep all to yourself?

    Remember the brilliant VW Golf GTI commercial? Of course you do. How could you forget the brilliant post production work and remix of such a classic scene? The dancer in this ad is a guy named Dave Elsewhere (+ Gene Kelly's face). This is certainly not Dave's first appearance dancing in a commercial. Dave is also the dancer in all of the Apple iPod ads. He has also danced his way into ads for brands such as Heineken, 7-Eleven Slurpee, Pepsi and Doritos. Now Dave has some amazing moves but I think we've found someone who is catching up to him, George Sampson. George is the 15 year old winner of Britain's Got Talent. He preformed the remix Singing In The Rain dance in the Grand Finale of the show.  

VW Golf GTI commercial 

George Sampson

I also found a mix that juxtaposes Dave and George's moves together....

The other video I wanted to add has disabled the embedded feature but you can (and should) check it out on YouTube. The video is titled Mint Royale Ft. Gene Kelly- Singing in the rain and has some pretty interesting graphics too. 

There are tons of remakes of this VW Golf GTI ad. Works and Rewards? I think so. The first time I saw this ad I found myself running to my Mac to watch again, and again, and again, and again. 

Now that is a good ad. 

Peanut Butter is one of the greatest food products in the world. But what else can it do...

 

Great for dipping- oreo's, spoons, fingers, pretzels, bananas 

or mixing with honey, chocolate, fluff (marshmallow cream), Nutella

Removing Gum from hair

An adhesive

Painting

Squirrel and mouse bait

Bird Feeder

Taking funny pictures of your dog making funny faces

Making horses talk

Halloween Costume 

Hair styling gel

Themes for songs

Rhyming

Gaining weight

An amazing ice cream flavor

Slip-n-slide

Giving your dog medicine

Killing someone with a nut allergy

Wallpaper

Good blogging topic 

Keep some in your braces for a late night snack

mix with ammonia and egg whites to take out stains

Fake tanner

Acne treatment

Use to beat anorexia

Shoot out of a cannon

Peanut butter balloon fight

Cure for cancer

Hang posters with it

Put in bowl for Halloween and blind fold kids telling them its their insides

Fill an entire room with it (just for decoration)

See how much fits in the VCR

Measuring tool 

Use to secure dentures in place 

Fertilizer 

Shaving cream

Mud pie- reinvented 

Substitute in waterbed 

Body Paint

Fake tattoos

Nail Polish

Currency in an imaginary land

Bob for apples

Build an adobe pb house

Background for taking portraits

Use for seduction purposes

Transportation device in sticky situations

Apply to feet to walk on ceiling

Throw in air for work out

Shoot out of flair gun for help

Smear to spell out HELP to be seen from sky

Use in cultural (initiation) dance

Alternative for a shoe horn

Shoot out of the back of a car in a chase to obstruct the view of the following car

Use to plug up soda bottle to keep fresh 

Camouflage in the woods or a tan room

Quiet a squeaky wheel 

Use as a moisturizer 

Use to fill in holes in your dorm room walls so you don't get ridiculous fines

Deodorant

Cat toy

Finger painting

Sealing UPS boxes

Fly paper

Wrestling matches

Disciplinary method for a child saying "inappropriate" things

Repair leaks in bicycle tire 

Plug up a runny nose

Stucco

Coating household wires for safety purposes

Changing the sound of a musical instrument such as a tuba

Breast Cancer Cuisine?

    I got a Lean Cuisine the other day and was shocked to see what I found. The box for the instant dinner was pink, advertising Lean Cuisine's campaign against breast cancer. Lean Cuisine has been partnering with Susan G. Komen for several years now. They support the cause by selling adorable pink totes and donating the funds to breast cancer research. 

However I find it interesting that a product that has been suspected to be a common cause of breast cancer is supposedly supporting it by promoting their brand. I am shocked that Susan G. Komen for the cure is not aware of these dangers. The danger of Lean Cuisine and all TV dinners is that they require you to heat the meal in a plastic container. The combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food. These dioxins ultimately reach the cells in our bodies. Dioxins are carcinogens that are highly toxic to the cells of the human body. When these dioxins reach the cells the person's risk of getting breast cancer raise drastically. 

Not only is it unhealthy to heat up anything in a plastic container, it is especially unhealthy to attempt to eat a Lean Cuisine regardless of what you heated it up in. Nestle Prepared Foods Co. recalled 900,000 lbs of Lean Cuisine meals after several people reported finding small chunks of blue plastic in their food.