Author Archives: William Ashton

About William Ashton

I'm an associate professor in the Behavioral Sciences Department and the Director of the York College Honors Program. I'm a social psychologist and currently my research project is in attribution theory, blame and sexual assault. I teach Social Psych, I/O Psych, Organizational Behavior and Research Methods.

Catching up: some vintage ads

Posted on February 13, 2012 by William Ashton

I have clear memories of from my childhood of the Mountain Dew and Burger King logos and the shape of the Kraft cheese jars.

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Interview with a hoaxster: How I fooled the Daily Mail with fake pic

Posted on February 13, 2012 by William Ashton

The snow photo started as a joke between friends, because we were fed up with people getting excited over a little flutter of snow, so we were posting old photos of deep snow and saying it was this week in … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2011 by William Ashton
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Catvertising

Posted on December 17, 2011 by William Ashton

http://www.johnst.com/   I’ve often wondered what percent of the internet is cats.

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Specific demographic segment

Posted on December 11, 2011 by William Ashton

and Boldly Go Originally uploaded by zetetics.

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A viral marketing scheme unfolding? You have 30 days to pay me $5,000,000..

Posted on December 10, 2011 by William Ashton

I saw this uneventful video of someone building a remote controlled car with a video camera on it, who travels to a pyramid and sends the car down into the structure.  The video ends with, “You have 30 days to pay … Continue reading →

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Mental Health ads

Posted on December 9, 2011 by William Ashton
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Which is scarier?

Posted on December 9, 2011 by William Ashton

             

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Vintage ads on vintage train

Posted on December 8, 2011 by William Ashton

MTA is running its Nostalgia Shopping Train on Saturdays before Christmas on the Sixth Avenue Line (the M) between Queens Plaza and Second Avenue. The cars have vintage 1930’s advertising Photos (c) of agent j loves agent a on Flickr.

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Shepard Fairey, Obama and Occupy

Posted on November 20, 2011 by William Ashton

Shepard Fairey is the graffiti artist who originally was famous for his Andre the Giant has a posse/Obey series     However, recently Fairey’s claim to fame has been for designing the Obama Hope poster Now Fairey has re-designed the poster for … Continue reading →

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