The Construct

When did they begin considering classified ads as breaking news? So this is of national importance?

Quick! A finance management position needs to be filled! The nation’s economy will collapse if this doesn’t get filled!

It would’ve been a lot more interesting if its an ad for an honest politician.

I am proud that growing up in the 80s, that television shaped pretty much who I am today. Looking back, it pretty much explains how I’ve become a disturbed individual but who cares. As far as I’m concerned, TV taught quite a lot of things.

I have to admit that I think that growing up watching Batibot and Sesame Street had it better than the kids who had to endure Teletubbies. As far as I recall, much of my exposure to the English language was because of Sesame Street and Batibot exposed me to basic literacy using Filipino contexts.

Well, sure there’s also the disturbing aspect of television like getting exposed to sexuality after being exposed to Annie’s upskirt shots watching Shaider. But I’d rather have that than being molested by a gay uncle. And that’s nothing to all the other risque TV ads that we get to see today.

Psychologically, I think my agnosticism is partly due again to that Shaider episode that had a black Santa and an upside down cross. Very visual.

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The first time I caught wind of “Ako Mismo,” I first thought of Sir Martin, since, as far as my realm of consciousness is concerned, AKOMISMO is Martin. I thought that he has started a big time advocacy group and was about to check it out, and congratulate him. Unfortunately, a rather cheesy splash page greeted me bearing the mugs of several celebrities and some to the likes of . “Not Martin?” I thought.

Then my good friend, Bryan, who has started to become increasingly active in the blogosphere, posted about it joining the inquiry on who the entity behind this campaign is. At the time of this writing, no one still has a definite answer to the question. Is it just a gig for the ad congress? Or part of the political spin in time for 2010? Both? Someone surely knows who’s behind this but until everything gets clearer, we can all just speculate on the true nature of this online campaign.

If someone’s profiting from this, I hope they pay Martin royalties for ripping the name of his Internet space.

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The title says it all. For those who spent their teens in the 90s, I’m sure you can remember that great Levi’s commercial that featured Portishead’s Glory Box. I’ve been searching far and wide and exhausting my Google-fu to find it on the net to no avail. I need not download it or anything (copyright issues?), just to view it one more time would be a treat.

Anyway, the music video’s available on YouTube which you can view here.

But come on. That Levi’s ad was the bomb.