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Home > Archives for March, 2008
Monthly Archives: March 2008
George Bush comes to agreement with Gordon Brown over waterboarding torture
Monday, March 10th, 2008
No time to make a big production on this, so it’s just words on a slightly modified picture.
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Tony Blair Goes To Yale To Talk About Himself
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Blair now takes up a post at Yale University to talk about God.
With all his other lucrative appointments in various parts of the world, he must now be classed as omnipresent, so it is a small leap of faith on his part to delude himself further and admit he will really be talking about himself.
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Ewan McGregor – Davidoff Adventure Spotting
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I’m supposed to be having a break and sorting out a few house-keeping issues but what do you do at one in the morning when the TV is crap and you’re so appalled at that Davidoff commercial?
Here’s a different version of Ewan McGregor’s venture into the fragrance market.
I’m not that good at video and, as a bad workman always does, I will partilally blame the tools I have at my disposal.
I would’ve liked to have overlaid the logo/product onto the video but I’m only using windows movie maker so I put some still frames at the end which means the bottle comes in a bit late.
Slightly better now as I had a go with a trial version of a proper video editor.
Very little real editing had to be done because the soundtrack matched the video pretty nicely.
Ewan McGregor and Davidoff
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I may not be doing pics but I just saw the new Davidoff ad featuring Ewan McGregor and felt inclined to write something.
Having seen one or two episodes of the series ‘Long Way Down’ or was it ‘Long Way Round’ when he and Charley Boorman went round the world on their motorbikes, I kind of got the impression that the arduous trip had a profound effect on both.
Nottachance.
I should have realised that at the emotional family reunion, the first words uttered by McGregor were not to declare his undying love to his wife but “Bugger me ! if we can keep Boorman out of it, this will make a great commercial.”
It didn’t and it’s one of the most cringeworthy ads I’ve ever seen.
By replacing just one word from the beginning of the Trainspotting screenplay, Davidoff could have saved a fortune, talked directly to its target audience and still associated the brand with McGregor .
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future.
Choose Davidoff.
Taking a Break – A Few Links and a clip of George Carlin
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I’m taking a bit of a break for a few days/weeks to sort out a few things but intend to return with images as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I suggest you :
a) Keep an eye open for Matt Buck’s stuff on his own site and Channel 4 News website.
b) Visit Morten Morland’s blog, encourage him to post more often and provide links to his stuff which appears in The Times.
c) Keep an eye on The Indy’s great cartoonist Dave Brown as his images can be seen in the Independent’s Opinion section.
A word of warning for Indy website visitors. The site seems to cram too much rich media into one page and it may slow down your browser.
I alerted them to this but it seems to be getting worse. I don’t want to adblock the site as it goes contrary to my desire to see it succeed but if it crashes my browser or slows down my computer then I either won’t visit it or use the necessary software to protect my pc.
d) For publishers and commercial blog owners, you should visit the PCO, The Professional Cartoonist’s Organisation where you can see the portfolios of many outstanding talents. You can then choose who to commission instead of nicking substandard work from the web, including mine.
Here’s a little George Carlin for your delectation. Some may have seen it, but his stuff makes for great viewing. NB. some swearing in the video.
