Full Sail Real World Education ~ Wings for sails

We have a double transportation escape whammy with a school called "Full Sail Real World Education" that uses its name along with a logo of an old prop plane.  It’s a mode of transportation that you may have taken on a weekend excursion to Cuba decades ago when prop planes were more widely used and [...]

Beyonce Knowles wants to get away on a boat with American Express and the people she loves

In following up on the question of how rich people should act vs. how they actually do, Beyoncé is being featured in one of the American Express ads where they ask the celebrity to fill out who they are and what they love.  Her photo features a jet, a limo, and a shiny gold dress [...]

How the rich are supposed to act vs. how they actually do act ~ a lesson from Reddit links

You will often see large numbers of get rich expeditiously programs, such as multi-level marketing companies, touting their plans in tropical locations.  Many of them will show flashy pictures of exotic places and activities to entice new recruits.  Yet, you don’t often hear about business people who are super rich and how they spend their [...]

Airbus A380 ~ a bigger, smarter flying dolphin?

This ad at Newsweek.com came as quite a surprise today:

It was a big web ad (coming in at 336 X 850 pixels), so I shrank it down to fit in the space here.  My first thoughts were, "What does a dolphin have to do with the biggest airplane ever made?"
I followed through to their [...]

ING Direct’s Adventures on The Road to Happiness

You may have seen, but probably don’t really remember, the new series of commercials from the banking company ING Direct called "Adventures on The Road to Happiness." Basically, a guy in an orange convertible drives around and keeps people from spending their money because they can be happier if their money is kept in a [...]

Luxury Air Jets ~ Travel to paradise with your stuffy, little grandson

Along the same lines of telling rich people how to live as was mentioned in the Bang & Olufsen post, Luxury Air Jets has put out this ad.  I wonder whose kid that is and if he really wears his sweater like that.  Or is this just a representation of what rich people supposedly look [...]

Bang & Olufsen ~ Desert Escape in Ocean Paradise

It is always interesting to see how luxury companies try to tell people with resources how to live.  Bang & Olufsen recently sent out their 2007/2008 product collection corporate magazine, and on pages 2 and 3, they had this:

The most remarkable feature of this picture is that it has a desert scene from, say [...]

Harley Davidson Women’s Ride 2008 ~ Daytona

Harley Davidson sent out this promotional email today, available here:

The motorcycle, and Harley Davidson in particular, is the ultimate American escape medium.  Even though South Dakota and Wisconsin are great places to ride, Daytona has long held a special place in riders’ hearts.  Maybe it’s the palm trees and huge beach.
Everyone seems to have [...]

Honda ~ hold on tight to everybody else’s dreams

Have you seen the latest Honda commercial with the car driving through the tunnel with the images rolling up around it? The Honda is the ultimate medium to paradise in this ad. Here it is:

I think the idea of the vision tunnel is pretty cool, but the tunnel vision of just rolling through common images [...]

Saab touts high-design Scandinavian "Scand-box"

When you were a kid, did you ever think of your sandbox as a square little slice of paradise?  Saab has a new ad from the back of their corporate magazine that builds upon the unexpected aesthetics and escape elements of sandbox:

That vase/mold looks a lot like some Mickey Mouse beach ears, and I’m [...]

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