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Mar. 5th, 2013 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
localfreakHad a super productive morning in work, I've still got mountains to do but you know that lovely feeling when you tick things off and can visibly see yourself actually meeting the deadlines? It's coming back (thank God!). Had a much less productive afternoon following Team Brief, no one could really settle and stuff just kind of came up which threw me off-plan.
My readings for uni this week are hilarious- half of them are ANALYSING ADVERTISEMENT IMAGES. I'm hunting for my study on "Nature Valley Granola Crunch" bars to remind me of things. I still can't actually look at that product on the shelves in the supermarket without announcing their name in a horrendous faux-accent. That's what you get for analysing an ad campaign of something edible, I suppose. The reading today focussed a lot on cigarette ads in print- something which I only have passing aquaintance with, I can understand a coupe focussing on the phallic but OH MY WORD the amount of fellatio in those ads was bizarre. "Hi yes, let's advertise the cigarette next to a cucumber with dew on it, a lollipop, a woman's lips, smeared with lipstick a spoon" ?!??!?
I think the cucumber was definitely the silliest. O.o
I'm cacking around online this evening because I'm waiting for people to pay me on ebay, I've sold a pile of bits- well, actually, I've sold a pile of old cross-stitch kits and a Wolverine action figure in box. I PUT UP for sale a lot of comics, DVDs (still sealed!) etc but of course none of them have sold. I am seriously thinking they're going to have to go in the recycling, it breaks my heart but I've been trying to sell these guys for years now some of them, just doubles or issues for series' I don't collect, and I ask a pittance for them. One day in the future someone is going to be looking desperately for X-Factor Giant Size Annual Issues 1 and 2 from the eighties and THEY WILL BE SORRY they didn't bloody buy them off me when they had the chance (if anyone on here by the way DOES know someone who would like them LET ME KNOW. I want them to go to somewhere they will be appreciated, and if they'd pay me something for postage and stuff I wouldn't be bothered about profit). It's just so frustrating when people seem delighted to have little tiny sampler kits that I acquired over the years but for various reasons didn't use and yet awesome things like Election on DVD (I love that film!), or Wolverine comics you can't even give them away.
My readings for uni this week are hilarious- half of them are ANALYSING ADVERTISEMENT IMAGES. I'm hunting for my study on "Nature Valley Granola Crunch" bars to remind me of things. I still can't actually look at that product on the shelves in the supermarket without announcing their name in a horrendous faux-accent. That's what you get for analysing an ad campaign of something edible, I suppose. The reading today focussed a lot on cigarette ads in print- something which I only have passing aquaintance with, I can understand a coupe focussing on the phallic but OH MY WORD the amount of fellatio in those ads was bizarre. "Hi yes, let's advertise the cigarette next to a cucumber with dew on it, a lollipop, a woman's lips, smeared with lipstick a spoon" ?!??!?
I think the cucumber was definitely the silliest. O.o
I'm cacking around online this evening because I'm waiting for people to pay me on ebay, I've sold a pile of bits- well, actually, I've sold a pile of old cross-stitch kits and a Wolverine action figure in box. I PUT UP for sale a lot of comics, DVDs (still sealed!) etc but of course none of them have sold. I am seriously thinking they're going to have to go in the recycling, it breaks my heart but I've been trying to sell these guys for years now some of them, just doubles or issues for series' I don't collect, and I ask a pittance for them. One day in the future someone is going to be looking desperately for X-Factor Giant Size Annual Issues 1 and 2 from the eighties and THEY WILL BE SORRY they didn't bloody buy them off me when they had the chance (if anyone on here by the way DOES know someone who would like them LET ME KNOW. I want them to go to somewhere they will be appreciated, and if they'd pay me something for postage and stuff I wouldn't be bothered about profit). It's just so frustrating when people seem delighted to have little tiny sampler kits that I acquired over the years but for various reasons didn't use and yet awesome things like Election on DVD (I love that film!), or Wolverine comics you can't even give them away.
