Flicker is a treasure trove of great looking and professionally captured images. Photographs that tell a story, captured at that one elusive moment and flawlessly rendered in visual artistry. Everybody can take a photograph, but it takes great skill and eye for beauty and detail to preserve and immortalize a moment; this makes a truly great artist and elevates his skill into an art form.
These are ten of the most compelling photography/photographs that I have seen in Flicker.
After what seemed to be a vague start for the new Microsoft Advertising Campaign “Windows, Not Walls” with Jerry Seinfield and no less than Bill Gates himself which generated quite a buzz (some positive, mostly baffled) Microsoft is finally doing it right (to me, at least).
To kick-off the so-called second phase of the $300 million worth campaign (though, i am still confused as to what they were trying to accomplish with the first wave of the ads because to me they were waste of airtime and money), Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the agency handling the project, decided to meet head-on with the known competition Apple.
Directly picking up from Apple’s Get-A-Mac ads (with the infamous I’m a PC, I’m a Mac), the new campaign turn’s the supposedly negative “I’m A PC” humdrum into something positive, smart and highly relatable. The new ad actually makes one smile and say “Hey, I’m A PC! And I’m cool too!” without sounding (and being) arrogant, narcissistic and holier-than-thou. The ad just shows how many people, from all walks of life (and not just the elitist) uses the PC; maybe not because it’s the best option in the market, but because it’s one that’s best and works for them; its the one that could give them what they need at the time and price they could afford.
And seriously, there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s nothing wrong with owning a PC. Like i always say, PC’s and Mac’s are just tools, they’re not suppose to be the anchor of one’s “pride” as a person.
However, the one thing that confuses me though is the branding direction of Microsoft on this. In as much as i think the new ads are fantastic , i still think that Microsoft needs to actually build on what the company really is: a software company. I think if and when they make and master an outstanding Operating System and have a great marketing and advertising campaign that would stress on how it could be installed and work at its optimum on whatever computer hardware you have, be it Apple’s or Dell’s or HP’s, then Microsoft could really, really be talking and communicating.
Take a look at the ads and tell me what you think.
If you want to send out some really unique cards or if you’re into collecting rare and distinct conceptual digital art, great for hanging on your empty wall (its great looking on as a mounted or framed print), you may want to check out some of my most recent conceptual digital art works/photo manipulations available for sale in RedBubble, an online art community.
Some of these pieces have won in various online art competitions while one is included in a coffee table book of outstanding Art/s of varied forms which was published last month (my art is one of the 90+ art works featured in the book).
So please, if you have the extra moola, kindly purchase one, it would definitely help me in funding for a laptop which will enable me to do more work even when i’m not in my home (i’m doing freelance graphics and PR work, by the way). Alternatively, if you’re in a generous mood and you feel you could help out a third-world freelance artist such as myself, you may also click on the donate button (at the upper right hand corner of the page). Any amount would be tremendously appreciated.
Cautiously,
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