Posts Tagged ‘vintage advertising’

Proto-Muppet Protection Racket Advertising

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

There is an extensive explanation for this wild and bizarre sequence at the Muppet Wiki. Here’s a bit of it:
In 1957, Jim Henson was approached by a Washington, D.C. coffee company to produce ads for Wilkins Coffee. The local stations only had ten seconds for station identification, so the commercials had to be lightning-fast — [...]

Even More Things I Did Not Know

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Science has brought us a permanent, but easily-removable, tattooing ink. Does this change the metatext of tattooing? I mean, the pain is still there, but if the permanence isn’t part of the subtext anymore, what does that mean for the story? Is it to obvious to predict the rise of a serial-tattooing culture, or a [...]