Over the years I’ve visited Sydney a number of times, and each time I make the trip up north, I’ve ended up on the monorail. Back in 2001 the highlight was a cringeworthy children’s song titled ‘Do The Loop’ – here it is for your listening displeasure.
Does advertising reflect on what society wants, or push us towards what advertisers want us to desire? Going by these two depressing advertisements I found at Central Station in Sydney, it seems that a third motive is ‘reflect upon what society gets forced into when they are hard up for cash‘.
It is 5pm on a Friday afternoon, you are standing around at the railway station waiting to head home, but there hasn’t been a train for ten minutes. If you haven’t got your smartphone out to find out what the issue is, then you’ll be listening out for the platform staff making announcements over the public address system. So how do they get kept in the loop?
A few days ago I returned from a week long trip to Sydney, where I spent every day getting around by train, bus and ferry. While in the city up north I realised I have forgotten how to use magstripe tickets…
Having previous dealt with the perils of auto-generated website content in my post about the former township of ‘Sue City’, my recent random Google Maps wanderings around the greater Sydney area have found another mysterious location: ‘Sydney West Airport’. So what gives?
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