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November 14, 2004July 29, 2020

Red Meat promoted by singing Australian butchers

Apologies to all vegetarians reading this entry. Meat and Livestock Australia’s Red Meat Feel Good campaign, online at redmeat-feelgood.com.au, features the Singing Butchers TV Advert. In something like a Morris Dancers routine or Hare Krishna dance we see butcher’s in their aprons prancing around the streets chanting the benefits of red meat. Definitely off the edge. It was created by The Campaign Palace and won an AFA award in 2003.

Singing Butchers

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November 7, 2004July 29, 2020

Hummer Commercials

Hummer knows how to present TV commercials online. Go to the HUMMER site, enter the ‘Flash’ environment, choose Hummer World and select ‘TV Commercials’. Today there are 14 commercials available for viewing in Quicktime format. The latest is ‘Nature’. The site lists the music details, with band, song, album and record label, with links to the band’s web site and online source for CD sales.

Hummer site ad

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October 21, 2004July 28, 2020

Volkswagen Television Advertising

For a piece of pop culture on wheels, you can’t go past the Volkswagen. I grew up in a family of 8 kids. We had a 1955 Chevrolet. But for the older siblings getting to school it was the Volkswagen Kombi van. And so I have a soft spot for Volkswagen. Here’s a selection of Volkswgen television commercials featured on The Inspiration Room.

Volkswagen Kombis in television screen

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October 20, 2004

Generations Course in 2005

Well it’s happening. This D.Min research/project is coming to fruition with the development of a course to be offered to the public in Winter 2005, midyear here in Queensland, Australia. I’ll be offering a week-long intensive as well as a 10 week course. Watch this space.

October 20, 2004July 28, 2020

Volkswagen Touareg Ads in Sahara Desert

Volkswagen has launched the Touareg in New Zealand with a series of television commercials highlighting the Saharan origins of the name. The new Sports Utility Vehicle is named after the Touareg people whose origins are in the Sahara desert, in West Africa. The Touareg series features the Sahara desert – with an Arab, ostriches, a camel and a dung beetle. Fascinating having a North African context with Kiwi accents! The one advert that appears to feature NZ scenery has African music!

Touareg is coming - Volkswagen Touareg Sahara ad with camel

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October 17, 2004July 28, 2020

Disability and Employment in TV Ads

In 2003 the Department for Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom produced a series of four TV spots raising issues around employment and disability. Hearing, seeing, mobility and chromosomes all feature in the challenging of assumptions relating to competence. ‘Getting Served’ is set in a noisy club, packed with people dancing. The two barmen are having varying success at getting the drinks orders right. For one of them, the music is so loud, he has to rely on gestures to understand what the customers want. The other however, is having no problems at all.

Getting Served in Disability and Employment TV advert

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