"Kisses From Brazil" - Brazilian Short Films... an ad from En Route, the newsletter published by Air Canada), and me. There I was, sitting waiting for a student, absentmindedly leafing the magazine, when I see this full page orange ad, "EVERYBODY LOVES A QUICKIE". Hell Yea, EVERYBODY! But with an ad like that no wonder tourists come here thinking it's all about sex. Oh wait, but maybe our lousy cinema did the trick too, hum, at a second guess, I'd say the best way to sell Brazilian cinema is all about quickies.
But I'd be biased if I said that without giving proper credit to the few but good long films that have been made over the last years.
I'm not here to debate the quality of Brazilian films though. It was just so uncanny to be reminded that our advertising industry is sooooo... 1950's. An ad like that would NEVER be published here. Even if it was to sell TOOTHBRUSH! Imagine that, "Three quickies a day, all you need for a healthy life!", or to sell morning cereal, "a quickie in the morning will get you started", or to sell Valium, "pop up a quickie and you'll sleep like a baby".
In the end, eventually everything can be sold under the quickie motto, after all, quickies are usually cheaper and lower-maintenance.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Everybody Loves a Quickie
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Copyright Violation
Well dear friends and online buddies!
Seems that the Kingdom of Fear has finally reached Multiply. For those who believed this was a free enterprise where a network could share common interests, beware!
Obviously the demon greedheads of old-fashioned record labels and assholes like Lars Ulrich who can't think of anything but money have found this website and this is the e-mail I received from the Multiply staff:
"Received: by 10.100.3.9 with SMTP id 9cs44867anc; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.95.11 with SMTP id s11mr6551342agb.1179251345208; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path:
Subject: Copyright Violation
One or more of your content items was found to be in violation of Multiply's terms of service regarding copyrights. We have deleted the item(s). We suggest you do the same with any other items that may contain copyrighted material. We reserve the right to cancel your account if we discover another violation. Here is the list of items which contained copyrighted material:
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/181
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/198
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/703
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/22
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/399
http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/music/item/469
Thank you for understanding.
Multiply customer service"
Therefore, all the CDs which I actually BOUGHT, and all the mp3s which I downloaded as free as any other individual who can browse and find anything within a click's range might now be outta here, and it was not my choice.
Steve Jobs has already signed deals for Apple's iTunes to sell unprotected mp3, and we can find mp3s everywhere on the web. However, this seems not to be the case here. So, if one day you click http://aliensamongus.multiply.com/ and don't find me, well, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Monday, August 21, 2006
The end is near!
Pois é, o mundo torna-se cada vez mais mudééérnu e cada vez mais bizarro: Ministério Público quer fechar sede do Google no País, me fez pensar sobre o Matrix e como as pessoas se relacionam hoje em dia. Então um membro do PCC tem profile do orkut? Lógico, ele paga escola particular para os filhos e faz compras no Extra. Você pode estar do lado de um corrupto ou de um assassino na fila do cinema, e jamais saberá. Mas ao mesmo tempo que o Matrix toma vida - err, já há algum tempo - os Mr. Smith vão tentando conter os problemas de segurança pública e paz social que insurgem. Estamos prontos para continuar vivendo assim?
Ouvi uma entrevista no rádio falando sobre os sequestros-relâmpago e como já há jurisprudência para o consumidor [cliente do banco] pedir indenização de valores extraídos do banco em razão de saques de dinheiro ou extratos que informam valores guardados pelo banco, se tal extrato for obtido dentro do banco [o que inclui caixas eletrônicos].
Assisti neste final de semana o filme Lawnmower Man, de 1992, baseado na obra de Stephen King e trata da "inovação da realidade virtual no futuro". Numa parte do filme o cara fala, "em 2001 todos os computadores estarão ligados em rede". O que foi ficção agora é história, wayyyyyyy beyong our imagination... Mas o Brasil não está em 2006 no que diz respeito à segurança e desenvolvimento social... apenas na tecnologia [e olhe lá!]. Como iremos conciliar as duas coisas? Como iremos sobreviver a tudo isso?
Bom, não iremos. Ou mudamos as escolas, a cultura, restruturamos desde o início, ou a contenção de danos será como Mr. Smith, caçando os Neos e outros renegados pelo mundo redes-virtu-al-zado.
Enquanto isso, por trás do Firewall...
