An optimist says “Good morning, Lord.” While a pessimist says “Good
Lord, it’s morning”.
A friend send me an email with this quote as a part of his signature. Simply brilliant who ever thought this one!
- Rajesh
I hate to admit it, but I think I lost my mojo for funny, creative art a long time back. Of course, what I am trying to say is that, at some point in the past, I was actually pretty good at it 
. So, these days, everytime I get this blurry and vague (creative?) idea of creating some art work (in this case for a section of my web site), I try Googling (have they made it an official word yet?)for inspiration. Today, even Google couldn’t help me. However, did come across some really funny and creative tech toon sites. God bless these guys for their humor and creativity. Here are the links - John Klossner cartoons and Cartoons by John Pritchett. My personal favorite was the one titled The Internet and Newspapers on John Pritchett’s site (the reason I don’t have it as the splash toon for this posting is because of usage restrictions). Go through their work. Some of the stuff is really hilarious.
- Rajesh
I simply love The Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman. And to think that its just an ad! Now that is what I call a good, super creative, win-some-new-customers type of advertisement. Besides the fact that the message itself is very subtle, the cool thing about this ad is that I choose to see it. Nobody forced me to see it. Over the last year or so, we are increasingly seeing this trend - use of “advertisement websites” by big corporations. I think it was Honda and BMW that started it by launching websites that had some nifty ad-cum-movie content.
That brings me to the reason why I made this post. Well…not really. I started off this post just with the idea of spreading the word about Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman - more specifically, the “second part” which they released today. But then, it got me thinking about this whole business of advertising - on the web. Especially, these otherwise good sites that are proliferated with cheezy, blinking, pinkish-reddish ads. Of course, “real-estate” has always been a big constraint for websites as far as putting advertising content is concerned. So first they came up with those infamous pop-ups. Then the more notorious child-pop-ups of parent pop-ups. And then the still more notorious grand children… Well, you get the idea. And I would beg to disagree with folks who say that this was the case only with pornographic sites, gambling sites, and all the human-vice related sites. Of course, these days we have got it fairly under control with pop-up blockers, spyware killers and what not. Ah! So, now the advertisers have resorted to all the flash-dance (remember the 80’s chick flick) with a “X” or “close” button hidden somewhere in the Flash ad movie. Well, I guess it is just one of those things that they refer to as “necessary evil” and I, and many more like me, will have to live with it. Or is there a better way of advertising on websites? Well, do we see a potential killer app…maybe.
- Rajesh