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Spirit of Ad-Venture
A journey through my Ad land...
Adverts, it seems that there are more of them than stars in the sky. Their purpose, to sell you, the hopefully credulous consumer, products or awareness of some cause or information they feel needs bashing into your thick skull, albeit on occasion, with a not very subtle visual hammer. Over the years I have to say advertisers and their respective art minions have become very skilled. Indeed they have come a long way from the bland, trite offerings delivered at the birth of the television set. Stereotypes still linger in the ad world, however the scale, budget, tricks, scripting and excitement quotient have increased exponentially.
I myself am quite attached to the my...