Thursday, March 20, 2008

Bad Commercials!

That was depressing. American Lung Association video: Child abuse - yelling, screaming...second hand smoke.
This is your emotional response, advertising theory, non-rational decision-making at work.

Suzie's parents never told her about drugs. They never told her that drugs maim. Drugs kill. There was one lesson Suzie had to learn on her own: How to freebase? Or huff? Try another take on "This is your brain on drugs."

Our kids are fat. The facts are clear, gibberish and ballroom dancing. This makes sense to you, and therefore must be effective. Siegel "Obesity is this really dark, dark, terrible thing. What they're doing is stigmatizing people who are obese. It's labeling them." Is it stigmatizing ballroom dance as well? This one was made for an anthro class, it comes up under the same search terms in Youtube.