9 posts tagged “poster”

As I browse the net for an idea about what to write, I was stuck. I wasn’t interested with the latest news. Even the latest gossips lacked appeal. So I just think about what I have been through recently.

I had a very weird dream last night that when I woke up, I set my mind to find out what that means. But first, do you know what dreams are? According to the very reliable Wiki, dreams are what we see or the images as well as the thoughts and the emotions that we experience while we are sleeping. Dreams are highly associated with the rapid eye movement sleep. Throughout history, interests about this topic never waned although with regards to its contents and the biological purposes, those aren’t yet fully understood.

So now that I’ve gathered some “technical” definition, it’s time to give in to my desire. I want to know what my dream means. You never know but it may be good enough to be used as subject for cheap poster printing.

The weird thing about it is that I dreamt of a part of our old house. Everything was new, the house itself, the backyard, the playground at the back. What was weird is that after the house before you reach the playground, there was the comfort room. It was like what we had before. But what’s so disturbing about it is that it looked filthy, the things inside looked primitive. The water was dirty. In my dream, my mother was asking me to use that. She said that it was okay.

Okay, I found the answers at dreammoods.com. But it only focused on the toilet. There are three types of toilet which were given meanings on the site. Basically, seeing a toilet symbolizes either the release of emotions or getting rid of a useless part of your life.

Cleaning the toilet means that you are opening up and starting to lose your shyness. The clogged toilet means that you are keeping your emotions to yourself. And the overflowing one signifies your desires to express your emotions.

Now I’m still at lost so I looked up the meaning of dirt or being in such state. So there it is, under the word dirt. This corresponds to person’s anxieties and feelings toward sex. Now I don’t think I like that sound of that. Such dream, according to the site, rooted from having low self-esteem and when you have a feeling that you are unworthy.

Between these meanings, I think I can better relate with the toilet stuff. I am going through a personal struggle right now and I think I soon have to release the sad emotion that is gripping me. But that will take time. I just thank the dream for reminding me.

Have you ever thought about what your dreams meant? Dreammoods.com is one effective site that can help you solve your dream puzzles as long as you remember them.

Do you think you can handle fame? What about its consequences? We all may assume that being a celebrity is easy. You just shoot a film or a TV show, wave at the fans and sign some autographs, smile at the cameras and having the paparazzi follow you wherever you go.

But the stars only get to be more famous with every controversy they have to face. The public always wants to know their dirtiest secrets. We adore them, but sometimes, we also become the reason of their fall down.

Patrick Swayze is an actor, a celebrity, but he’s also human. The actor who became famous with his struts on “Dirty Dancing” and as a very loyal lover on “Ghost” is now facing a battle he didn’t plan to take.

His representative confirmed that the actor is battling pancreatic cancer. Patrick isn’t letting the sickness hinder him to work. In fact, he is still in negotiation about his future projects and is ready to get on it once he got the part.

His doctor says that Patrick is coping well with treatment. And his representative confirms that the actor is ready to take on a project once the negotiation is completed. This is regarding “The Beast,” a project of the A&E cable network that was halted when the writer’s strike erupted. The network wants to continue the show as a series and Patrick hopes to be still part of it.

Meanwhile, the tabloids are going crazy about Patrick’s sickness. To make matters worse, the National Enquirer even reported that the actor only has a few weeks to live. Death is a serious business for the media because such topic sells. I wouldn’t be surprised if tabloids even avail of 27 x 39 poster printing services to sell such commemorative to the actor’s fans.

Patrick is sick but he remains positive. Let us just all learn from his experience, to be strong despite the hurdles and to continue living life to its full while we still have it.

The Academy Award or the Oscars, as it is prevalently known, is the most watched and highly anticipated event that gives homage to the best of the best in the film industry each year. Now on its 80th year, the ceremony will be held on February 24 with Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart as host.

So who is your bet? Shows like this make enthusiasts place their stakes on whom they think will bring home the bacon on the award’s night. Such acts are actually done just after the announcement of the nominees was made.

Since this ceremony is a red carpet affair, fans need not worry themselves with poster printing services since groupies won’t be allowed inside the facilities. Save your pennies for the betting instead because the list of the nominees will surely give you a hard time as to whom will be the rightful one.

For the Best Director Award, the choice is among The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’s Julian Schnabel, Jason Reitman of Juno, Tony Gilroy of Michael Clayton, the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, for No Country for Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson of There Will Be Blood.

The Best Supporting Actress is a close fight among Cate Blanchett of the movie I’m Not There, American Gangster’s Ruby Dee, Saiorse Ronan of Atonement, Amy Ryan from the movie Gone Baby Gone and Tilda Swinton of Michael Clayton.

The list for the Best Supporting Actor category is as follows: Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Javier Bardem for the movie No Country for Old Men, Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson’s War, Into the Wild’s Hal Holbrook and from the movie Michael Clayton, Tom Wilkinson.

Cate Blanchett is nominated this year for two categories. She is also in the running for the Best Actress Award for the movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Along with Ms Blanchett are Julie Christie for Away From Her, Marion Cotillard for the movie La Vie en Rose, The Savages’ Laura Linney and newcomer Ellen Page for the movie Juno.

Maybe one of the lists that you’ll find hard to pick among for your bet this year is the Best Actor category. For such, the nominees are George Clooney for the movie Michael Clayton, Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood, Sweeney Todd’s Johnny Depp, veteran Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah and Viggo Mortensen for the film Eastern Promises.

And the last category and also one that you’ll need to think really hard before placing your stake at, is the Best Picture Award. This year, it is a close fight among the following: Atonement, Michael Clayton, Juno, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men.

The event will surely be a memorable one not only because of the list above but also with the end of the Hollywood writer’s strike. Be sure to catch it because this will definitely be a treat for those who love the films and all the glitter that surrounds it.

Posters are strange things. Sometimes an extremely pretty picture wins all the awards but none of the expected customers, while those tacky posters win more attention that wonderful ones.

When I was younger, with my first attempt at poster printing was a recruitment poster for my university organization. Of course, I took it as a chance to show off my design skills and aimed for a professional looking poster that will win admiration. It was professional looking alright, but it looks like every other advertising poster around.

I guess my friends at the organization liked it though because they have something to plaster around the booth, and they were extra enthusiastic about it. They even used the slogan to call people’s attention. Our recruitment improved that year, but I doubt the posters effectiveness has anything to do with it.

With the popularity of non-traditional marketing, you may wonder whether your print ads are worth printing at all. For retail industries, you think you can always rely on good old word of mouth from satisfied customers to get the sales ball going.

I realized that although these posters looked nice, no one bothered to stop and look at them. There wasn’t anything in them that communicated any specific benefit to the target audience. The one benefit it served though is at least people are now aware our little club existed.

It was a good thing as well that the cheap poster printing didn’t dry up our budget. Don’t get me wrong, the posters are in very high quality but because we had it printed digitally it didn’t exhaust our budget.

In the business world, word of mouth is still the most potent marketing tool businesses can use. The thing is though satisfied customers are seldom very good at voicing their enthusiasm about every single product or service that exceeded their expectations. Sometimes a talkative customer can mention your business in passing but has no motivation to pursue the conversation.

I think posters are important as a backup marketing material to make explaining a little easier for customers. You can use an interesting and thought provoking poster to give your customers a little more leverage.

One of the reasons posters mass advertising is so popular because it gives people a starting point for conversations. A common ground they can use to create a context they can use to clue in other people into the conversation.

I guess, if I can do things over again, I would have made the poster less professional and more college student looking, maybe use graffiti art or use a more personal tone in the copywriting. It will make it a little more relatable to, and a whole lot more interesting.

This is the contemporary age where the question, “What is art?” blurs the distinction between classical paintings and graffitis found on street corners, where  another man’s trash becomes another man’s treasure, and where originality comes from being the first in doing certain things. Soon enough, all that there will be left is who does what first on the moon.  

Judging what is what has become harder. The foundations have been shaken by postmodernism. What is good, what is original, have become quite harder to specify. These among other things are some of the concerns of artists, creative directors, copywriters, and graphic designers into working out fresh and innovative ideas for the market.

How exactly do you push the envelope in the land where everything has “supposedly” been said and done? Underground or guerilla marketing activities has been present and aggressive in the past years where the medium is not limited by television, internet and print ads. It doesn’t matter too if you are advertising in a high-priced location or using discount poster printing for you materials.

Creativity comes in the form of challenging the restrictions of space, ignoring the archaic rules, and making use of the same-old materials in a new fashion. Who says you can’t in the first place?

The medium, as much as the environment, has become more fused or integrated into the landscape. Let us bring the unfamiliar to their backyards, streets, and so on. Where bus stops used to be ordinary bus stops have now become a myriad of posters and signs. Where billboards have been transformed from two- dimensional to three-dimensional media.

Just take a look around. Transforming billboards as huge as buildings aren’t really anything new. But making Godzilla appear more real is just for starters. Someone must have finally had the guts to say, ”Why not put real objects unto billboards and get that “Wow” factor. Let’s put real cars and add more optical illusions to make everything convincing.”  They must have also said, “Screw the rectangle billboards. They are so square. Why not rip the billboards and get a new, striking shape and effect.”

Creativity comes not just from asking, “What else is there left to do?”  to “Why not?!” Bend everything to your will. Push the envelope and see how and what new forms you can accomplish in the cut-throat world of advertising. You didn’t think Van Gogh and Matisse would be where they are now if they didn’t ask “Why not?!”

I am a fan of the Absolut Vodka. But it seems that as much as I like their vodka, I think I like their campaigns better. And yes, I am talking about their signature print advertisements that appear on print in different magazines.

Whenever I’d see a new and a different print ad or poster design, sometimes I’d be blown away. But over all, what makes the Absolut Vodka campaign totally recognizable is that it has consistently been that way. It is simple and never tries to hard to pull off a new stunt. It is as it is – a print ad showcasing the inimitable vodka bottle.

Aside from transforming the bottles to promote a new flavor, the only way the image will change is when it tries to illustrate the main message. To demonstrate the former and the latter, remember the Absolut Vodka bottle wrapped in orange skin to promote their flavored vodka? Respectively, there’s this ad called Absolut Yoga wherein the bottle was turned upside down, standing on its neck rather than the wide circular bottom.

Many have already spoofed the Absolut vodka campaign, with all the different posters being design and all that. Look into one that says Absolut impotence and you’d know what I am talking about.

Truth be told, there are many of those who have already analyzed this campaign. And then there are also those who try to discredit the Absolut Vodka ads. Call it pop culture, but that is the strength of the vodka campaign and it is not going to stop. Call it whatever you want. Each ad may not always turn out exactly to be a work of genius, but hey, no one is about to topple the crown off the Absolut’s head.

 Now, if you’re into collecting these print ads, well, it really isn’t easy. Why? There are hundreds upon hundreds of ads and frankly, if you just want a yearbook of sorts of their print ads, just buy the book. Yes, there is a book that compiles the print ads made by Absolut Vodka.

I tried compiling them as much as I can, but my friends are getting tired of me asking them to tear out that print ad carefully. It also takes some money just to buy a magazine where I have spotted the newest ad. And more or less, it is hard to keep track which ones I have and which ones I haven’t.

Sometimes, the fascination can even get out of hand. Huge poster prints on display in windows or in bars just make me want to steal them like a juvenile. If I had my way with wholesale poster printing, I’d print limited edition posters and give them out to Absolut enthusiasts. I wish.

Last night, I finished three sandwiches, three cups of tea, and four articles. I work late at night now, past my bed time, past the time I crammed on college papers, past the time go home for night outs. Tonight, I’m on my first cup of coffee and on the first blog write-up for the evening.

There is nothing to write about, my mind is blank and my fingers are numb. It always feels this way at first, staring at the empty white computer screen sneering at either my laziness or incompetence. I always wrote late at night, when the world is dead and deserted. I spend the first hours courting the muses, writing a few sentences, then resting, eating, and cramming the rest before the crack of dawn.

It’s the dead of the night, I am in a different place, but everything feels the same. The erratic coughing of the air-conditioner is gone now, but I find myself rekindling old friendships with the bored hum of the fluorescent light. They were my late-night dorm room companions a lifetime ago. It still feels like a secret life, a quiet communion between my thoughts, the computer screen, and the whispering of the lights.

It’s the dead of the night, and I remember forgetting the time during movie dates and begging the dorm directress for curfew extensions. I remember the late night conversations with my roommate, a genius with glasses as thick as my arm. We used to gossip about philosophers and life, as if they were the mysterious next door neighbor. I remember midnight parties at the roof deck, drinking the night away while waiting for stars to fall down.
 
It’s the dead of the night, the best time for lying down and indulging in nostalgia. No, forget nostalgia. It is pointless poster printing a perfect life, glossy, full-colored but empty. It’s the dead of the night and past the time of dreaming.

It’s the dead of the night, it’s time to grab another cup of coffee, a bite of sandwich and come back for a few more sentences. I have nothing left to say, but the deadline is threateningly close. I spin my chair hoping to remember something wise or witty to say. I wrack my brains, only I feel my eyelids getting heavier, and heavier, and heavier.

It’s the dead of the night, and I should be sleeping. And my thoughts are slipping. What was I talking about? Hmmm.Oh yeah, poster printing.
 

If you have been a couch potato at one point in your life or another, you would have watched too many television shopping spiels on air. I say this because you may find yourself accompanying your mother or grandmother to trade shows where they showcase many new and exciting house hold items that are just quite life-changing. Oh, aren’t you just brimming with excitement?

Of course, you cannot just leave Ma or Granny to do the shopping. I mean, with the many times you’ve “accidentally” come across shopping networks, you would know better to identify the real deal from the cheap knock-offs or imitations that may be lurking in other trade show booths.

Why is this a sudden concern for me? Well, trade shows for the uninitiated and for those who have a knack for buying things off the bat are under the mercy of really persuasive sellers. You have got to have a strong disposition. And well, heck, hard earned money is still money. You have got to put it to good use.

Besides, if you’ve watched too many television shopping networks like your truly, sometimes it is worth to pay that product a visit in the trade show.

Trade shows are like candy stores. There are so many lights and bright, vivid, trade show posters that call your attention left and right. Now, there are plenty of tradeshows out there. There are  ones for apparel, antiques, fishing, jewelry trade shows, car expos, sporting goods and so many other. There are even trade shows for printing companies who do talk about trade shows and trade show poster printing displays. Talk about redundancy huh?

Anyway, to see is to believe. This is the motto of trade shows. If you want to do a little shopping on the must-have items right now, this is the place to be because they have got lots of freebies. Other than this, if you are planning on buying some heavy-machinery, like the king of all kings of barbeque grills, well, a trade show is a nice place to look into.

It is nice to see successful products that literally swipe the grime and dirt off the floor. With one clean sweep, lipstick, soil, baby food and so many other staining objects are polished off. However, this does not leave me too impressed to make me want to go clean up my room everyday.

I have also seen not just mops that make cleaning easy, but gadgets that just says you are just plain lazy. I mean, c’mon, why would you buy an electric can opener anyway? Is it that darn difficult or you’re just opening so many cans a day?

Kitchen products are fun. Knives that can cut through leather and tiles are the closest thing you can get to testing out Ma’s knives. If you do that in real life, you’d be in for a lotta trouble. Anyway, you get to see, smell and taste food. The latter is the best one there is.

Other than that, there are lots of items that can pique your curiosity but then again you don’t need. Watch where your money goes.