What makes this tobacco ad greenwashed? Look for popular buzz words such as “Natural,”Organic,” “additive-free” This tobacco product, weather natural or not is not any healthier than originally, the company is just trying to cover up their unhealthy and possibly destructive business practice. Greenwashing: “Everyone’s heard the expression “whitewashing” — it’s defined as “a coordinated attempt to […]
Here are three advertisements from the excorporative marketing group, AdBusters Magazine. In class we discussed the top two and the bottom advertisement I found today and I think it is pretty spot on with regards to how heavy brand advertisements are ingrained into our society and the disconnect people have with “un-branded” items even […]
After reading Susan Davis’s, “Touch the Magic,” I did some research and found an attraction at Disneyland that is sponsored by a coroprate company very similar to the third party companies that are partnered with Sea World. The Enchanted Tiki Room is an attraction within Disneyland that creates a fake “jungle” filled with talking parrots […]
I was listening to Kayne West’s new album and came across his song, ‘Blood on the leaves.” This song is a cover of Billie Holiday’s song we listened to in class, “Strange fruit.” I think it is really powerful to see such an influential performer push the boundaries on taboo subjects such as race that […]
This video, Proud to be, is funded by the Yocha Dehe Winton Nation tribe and played during the NBA finals. “Change the Mascot is a national campaign to end the use of the racial slur “r*dskins” as the mascot and name of the NFL team in Washington, D.C. Launched by the Oneida Indian Nation, […]
Here is the clip for the Herbal Essences commercial we watched in class titled, Take Your Hair to Paradise. The biography on youtube states: “ Herbal Essences whisks you and your 156,932 follicles deep into the heart of paradise … pleasure and jungle-y things abound.” I don’t have a lot of words to describe this clip but uncomfortable […]
