Thursday, October 8, 2009

IMAX and Chicken Delight: "think big, hurl bigger"


"If you get dizzy, close your eyes and sit back. The feeling will pass."

Then again, maybe it won't.

Earlier today, I ran across this poster for an awesome "Dinner & a Movie" cross-promotion concocted in the bowels of Hell and offered up by Chicken Delight and IMAX.

After wolfing down 11 pieces of greasy chicken, fries, gravy (medium!), salad, rolls and a two-litre jug of Coke, who doesn't want to catch a 3D movie at the IMAX, the theatre chain with screens so big, you get a dizziness warning at the beginning of the feature?

You and your date can enjoy this promotion for only $31.95 and - thank the Lord - the offer is available "all day/everyday, no coupon required."

See you there on Thanksgiving!

Students thank you - and Bernays - for smoking



They're not cigarettes, they're TORCHES OF FREEDOM!

Here are first-year CreComm students Jeff Ward, Jordan Johanson, and Jeremy Giacomin making Edward L. Bernays' 1929 PRO-smoking PR campaign for Lucky Strike - cough, cough - come to life.

Warning: this video is highly addictive, causes strokes, and stunts your growth.


**Update: Yesterday, I somehow missed the team's equally entertaining re-enactment of the Green Ball - the pro-smoking campaign in which Bernays rebranded the color of fashion to match cigarette packages.

Today, I correct that wrong:



I can't wait for the big Ivory Soap-carving contest installment...