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Re: Big UPs from Darwin
Originally Posted by loose
Just a quick hello from Darwin. Insomnia kicking in big time 4am here, probably back up to about 30 degrees after a cracking storm last night. Build up to the wet season kickin in pretty hugely.
Very different to the rest of Oz up here, good and bad like anywhere in the world. Funny as though. Typical Darwin weekend? Well I've been invited fishin and pig hunting again. Think they'll settle for haddock and chips and some pork scratchings over a pint? Na me either. People are friendly, weathers mental (the storms can be awesome), countryside is long stretches of pretty boring punctuated by jaw droppingly stunning. Kakadu Lickfield and Katherine are definately worth seeing. Blighted by usual social problems, crime etc, but the local paper always has an interesting slant on events. (On the day of the general election I think they led with a story about a bloke falling off a lamp post p*ssed - more relevant to them up here than all that political nonsense I suppose). Reet, suppose I should try hit the hay again. Night all. ;) :beer: Do keep us informed of life at the top end - down under! Take Care Michelle |
Re: Big UPs from Darwin
Marketing sophistication?
I like ads and I like marketing, its interesting to analyse where-ever you roam. No culture is better understood than by its marketers and advertisers; they know how it thinks and what its values are, they know how to manipulate tastes and needs. These people sell the masses shit they don't need, from lifestyles to abdominal products. Anyone who has spent time in Hong Kong and seen the tv ads there will know what I'm talking about. I think the standard of UK advertising is extremely high:intelligent, witty, varied in approach and reflecting many of the qualities I find attractive in the 'homeland' - a sense of the bizarre, a love of animals, self-effacement, irony. The list could go on. Here in Darwin we are assaulted by 'real men' shouting into the camera to buy a cheap sofa this weekend or a lawnmower. Spinning graphics and dodgy jingles, "When you take a trip on the Adelaide River Queen". Or. "Here, mate, can i borrow your spanner." "Why don't you buy your own, they're having sale at..." As revealing an inter-change as you could get about Darwin. It is a country town coming to terms with its disreputable past: where people live behind tall fences patroled by packs of hounds, terrified of the black fella and the non-existent crime-wave that the NT News continually promotes; surrounded by Palmerston and its squaddies (who keep the local economy afloat); and waiting eagerly for another influx of cash from the stationing of US troops...opps, :scared: there goes the neighbourhood. So, I hope that clarifies my postion. :) |
Re: Big UPs from Darwin
[QUOTE=tranquilo]Marketing sophistication?
Here in Darwin we are assaulted by 'real men' shouting into the camera to buy a cheap sofa this weekend or a lawnmower. Spinning graphics and dodgy jingles, "When you take a trip on the Adelaide River Queen". Or. "Here, mate, can i borrow your spanner." "Why don't you buy your own, they're having sale at..." ............................................... WA Salvage..."We're not fancy...but we're cheap"] :D |
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