Marwane El Kharbili

May 25, 2009

The meaning of life

A very funny prank. Unfortunately it is in German, so I will try to translate the joke. This is an imitation of a search engine, where the entered search string is: "the meaning of life". So click here to access the page.

Underneath it you have got two buttons, the first one is labelled "advertisement", the second one "reality". If you click on "advertisement" you get normal search results from google. But is you click on "reality", you get a ... very interesting result: the one-sentence answer to the question: What is the meaning of life?

The answer is very funny. For the lucky German-speakers, hope you'll like it. For those of you who don't understand German, I will write the translated answer as a comment :D

Marwane El Kharbili.

May 7, 2009

Project Reality Check

A friend of mine (Jean-Michel) sent me this link. I found it very funny so I am writing this post about it, I am sure you will find it interesting too. Although the page is in German, you don't need to understand what is written, just look at the images, it's always easier :D

So the pages is entitled "advertisement against reality". You can see 100 products of all sorts, and compare the advertisement photos or the images on the packages when you buy the product, with how the product really looks like. I'm telling you, the comparison is astonishing. I realized that what I buy is not what I use, eat or wear, but what is represented in the beautiful and bright images that we are bombarded with though advertisements. This is how marketing manipulates us.

Marwane El Kharbili.