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Comment on Metro Cat Rescue is more popular than the Curtis and Cosby show on Facebook! by Anthony Olszewski

Anthony Olszewski — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:23:53 +0000

NYC talk radio is still on life support. It looks like Cosby is gone, but WABC doesn’t even bother to update the show’s Facebook Page. No matter, nothing’s really changed: 7,518 Likes compared to Metro Cat Rescue’s 16,523.

Comment on Steve Madden NYC Meat Market billboard by Anthony Olszewski

Anthony Olszewski — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:28:32 +0000

A SHOE-SELLER SPEAKS BY RICK MOODY November 12th, 2010 I met Lauren (whose last name we are suppressing here) at a writing workshop in Provincetown almost fifteen years ago. She was shy, funny, brilliant, and very, very talented, and she dressed like one of those kids who had been to every show that Mission of Burma ever played. I was surprised, therefore, to learn that she worked in a very glamorous department store (not supposed to say which one!) selling shoes. I’m not sure why I was surprised, because people have to work, and so why not shoes? I suppose I just don’t know that many people who sell shoes. Inside information in the selling professions is always thrilling, though, and so I recently persuaded Lauren to answer some questions by e-mail. What follows is a generous helping of secrets of the craft. . . . Click HERE to read the complete interview.

Comment on Japanese marketing firm Dentsu promotes Happy Science cult by Anthony Olszewski

Anthony Olszewski — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:44:22 +0000

In a 2014 publication, Happy Science claims to use channeling of the ghost of Iris Chang to show that Japanese aggression in China during World War II never happened.
http://eng.the-liberty.com/2014/5260/

Comment on McLuhan – Language extends and amplifies man but it also divides his faculties. by Michael Edmunds

Michael Edmunds — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:15:44 +0000

btw, McLuhan himself did think that experiments in percepts was useful. One thing he and his team tried out was presenting material to students with various media and including live in class room as well. McLuhan believed TV was not being used very well as teaching tool.

Comment on McLuhan – Language extends and amplifies man but it also divides his faculties. by Michael Edmunds

Michael Edmunds — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:12:06 +0000

Indeed it was 50 years ago and is being celebrated in Toronto…
Monday, November 10th, 4:00pm: A Dialogue with Professors B. W. Powe and Robert K. Logan
St. Michael’s Book and Media Program presents An Event Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Marshall McLuhan’s Book Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. A Dialogue with Professors Bruce W. Powe and Robert K. Logan moderated by Marc Glassman on Monday, November 10th, 2014.
Pre-Event Reception: 4:00 pm; Dialogue Event: 4:30 – 6:00 pm.
Location: Fr. Robert Madden Hall, Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

Comment on Screen reading as a ricercar by Anthony Olszewski

Anthony Olszewski — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:41:24 +0000

Some muse that the Irish saved Western civilization. The same can be said more recently of Joyce and Psychology in the United States. McLuhan’s application of Joyce through the Long Dark Night of Behaviorism reminded people of their mind’s existence. With the tools available today to Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, we can go beyond the probes of hypothesis to testing and theory.

Comment on The Svedka Vodka female robot ads by dawnatilla

dawnatilla — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:00:08 +0000

Its promoting TRANSHUMANISM!

Comment on “Information overload equals pattern recognition.” Media Ad-vice: An Introduction by Marshall McLuhan by Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key | Advertising Alchemy - marketing concepts and techniques

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:24 +0000

[…] the author’s mother blush. But here it is true; if between the covers there was nothing but the introduction by Marshall McLuhan — if all the other pages were blank — this would still be something that everyone […]

Comment on Corona Extra ad subliminal images by tyler

tyler — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:39:36 +0000

Trust me there is a subliminal message in every corona bottle. Please let me know if you know what and where it is. Hint: it says “sex”.

Comment on Armani billboard – 2011 Number 9 by ZEPHoRus

ZEPHoRus — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:12:16 +0000

Nothing is too big for the subliminal.