Sharing Fun Facts.
Facts about countries I have visited – a collaboration with a 9 year old. Master J recently visited from New Zealand with his mum and dad. He, together with his […]
Tag Archives: advertising
Kidnapped Bananas? – Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge #23
My very first Odd Ball post was the “Better than Botox” Juice! Here is another Froosh 100% juice, the Stockholm Banana Bottled. I have images of poor old Banana in Pajamas being kidnapped […]
Confusing Advertising – Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge #22
Yet again a cultural disconnect for me in the world of Japanese advertising. Often with these type of billboards I am drawn to the imagery first. What does this picture scream […]
Hedging all Bets – Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge #19
Japanese marketing is so often a mish mash of contradictory images which deliver mixed messages. Here we have an advertisement for おいしいピュアウオーター （delicious pure water), complete with a snow covered pristine alpine range, […]
Advertising brings me to a Japanese High Rise Cemetery and Table manners
I commute to school 5 days a week on jam packed trains. It is usually so packed I can’t free my hands to get a book out of my bag […]
Living in a retro time warp.
Loving this blogging business. It’s making me think about all sorts of things, how I perceive different situations, my opinions right or wrong!, what interests me, shocks me and bamboozles […]
It’s like a foreign language to me!
Here I am living in Japan, working as an English teacher, loving the culture, the food the people and the language. The are times when I stumble with the language […]
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