Friday, January 16, 2009

Creepy XBOX Advertisement




I did some google searches and confirmed -- I'm not the only one who thinks the Microsoft XBOX 360 advertisements, which show a hollow headed person staring at digital entertainment, is freaky.

"Disgusting, nightmarish, perverted" are a few of the adjectives people are using.

All that and more! The woman's face is frozen in a ghastly grin, the back of her head is open, revealing an empty theatre.

It's freakishly fascinating, like watching an autopsy. But is it good advertising?

There are those who would say, since people are talking about it, it's good advertising.

I would say if it dehumanizes us, if it portrays the human brain succumbing to the machine, it is bad.

Perhaps what's most disturbing about the ad is that it is probably accurate. Turn on the electronic game system, and the brain hollows out.

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