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I have always loved adbusters, I find the whole magazine hilarious, so right from the start I was stoked about this essay topic. I did have a hard time choosing an actual topic though, but I just thought about it until I came across something I could rant about for six or seven pages and went with that. Looking at adbusters.com, I knew my anti-ad would not turn out as good as theirs are. It was easy to come up with an idea, it was just a very strange process carrying it out. Originally I was going to write about gas and have my anti ad be a pile of trash with a Shell sign above it, but rip the S off and just have it say “hell”. When I went to go about designing the pile of rubbage the entire thing just looked really awkward and so I decided to change my topic to cell phones, thinking maybe I would come up with an idea for an anti ad that would flow better. Over all I am not too ashamed of how my project turned out, I think that a lot of people in class had better ideas than I did. I’m just afraid I went a little off topic and I might get some points knocked off for that. My essay isn’t completely about advertising as much as people’s attachments to their phones. In the end I think the most exciting part was coming up with the idea, just because I got somewhat angry about it. Yes, the anti-ad was harder to create than I expected, just because I wanted it to be perfect and I’m really not that good at photoshop, which is actually quite pathetic since I am an art major. I am just stubborn and like to do everything by hand, I hate all this computer generated art that is getting out there these days, and I find it hard to produce things that way instead of knowing how every piece fits together. What can I say I’m just really stubborn.