This is just a great concept for a music video. I’ll spare you the rant on fast food, advertising and capitalism. You can draw your own conclusions. As all music videos, this is probably NSFW.

This video has been everywhere because liberal folks like seeing that they are right.  No, I don’t like Sarah Palin. I just think the video is a sad commentary on our political system all together. It’s all about image.

via Gawker

We get real caught up in image. Look at Obama, gays & lesbians just assumed he was behind them. Yet, he defended DOMA.

Elections are just elaborate marketing campaigns, now. And everyone knows that advertisers always make claims about their products that just aren’t true. We joke about the fine print that is barely readable. Bush & Gore pandered to voters so much in the 2000 election that many political cartoons & sketch comedy shows joked that they were the same person.

Tell the people what they want to hear to get their vote. Once elected, make the corporations/lobbyists happy. Fuck the people.

INTERESTING: Boycott ghostwritten books designed for branding.

You can skip my rant and just watch the video.

I was just saying on Twitter how amazing it is to me that people are so eager to receive junk mail & advertising. I mean if someone asks for your name and address you get defensive about your privacy, unless they throw the words “Social Network” in front of their proposal.

Now we have people out there calling themselves professionals who are labeled Social Marketing experts. The job is to advertise the company they work for on social networks like twitter, facebook, etc. The name of the game is exposure. Forget quality interactions, lets just see how many fans we can get on our Facebook fan page because that means more customers! Let us worship our all mighty god QUANTITY!! As consumerism is our religion, MORE is our goal.

The folks who lampooned twitter have called out the LinkedIn in the following video.

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I saw this trailer a while back and dropped it on my desktop to share. Cleaned the desktop a month later and here you are.

Check the site for more information.  I need to get back on Netflix so I can see this sort of stuff again. Perhaps, a sikkdays.com contest of some kind…the winner gets to buy me netflix for a year. Well, the idea sounds good to me, anyway.

When I hear all my friends complain about their clients, it makes me glad that I am not in their shoes. Unfortunately, it also makes me sad that I am just a jobless poser designer who’s on the run from debt collectors. Anyway, enough about my glorious life and onto the funny:

Instead of design, I would much rather work in editing which the 7 minute video could have used. Still pretty funny though.

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Chatting with my friend Christian a couple of weeks ago, he told me about a project he just completed. Let’s say for his sake, that he described it shot for shot so I knew what to look for. Fast forward to my visit to motionographer, and guess what I find? The very spot Christian described. According to him, he did the lighting and some polishing here and there. The link lists him as lighting and textures. Great work, brother!

Unfortunately, the various companies that came together to produce the spot have seen fit to not allow embedding of the video. I hesitate to download it and host it here because I don’t want to get in trouble for advertising them for free. Woolworths does have a youtube channel, but they screwed the video up and it is all squashed. Thus, you’ll have to make due by going off site to watch.

You spend most of your life getting ads shoved in your face. Aren’t you glad you can come to sikkdays.com free of banner ads and pop ups? Unfortunately, I am always posting fun and clever commercials like this one.

via No Fat Clips!!!