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1979 Hitachi TV spot with Martin Short
Martin Short is so damn pretty. Sigh.🥰💓
Why are my celeb crushes either old or dead? ðŸ˜
I've been watching too many commercial blocks from the 90s lately because I woke up to the ABC Movie bumper music stuck in my head.
I'm so glad I have this screen recorded, and I was able to find the ad in the first place on some random website. When I saw this commercial when I was little, I became obsessed with frutari popsicles and created an imaginary world called fruitariland. I pretended the people in the commercial were my cool teenage friends, and they lived in future land too. I pretended I came from futare Land instead of being born. I told my mom I just fell from futare land in outer space and Came Crashing Down where the baby was going to be born when she was giving birth. Half of the world was just a flat floor made out of the futare popsicle, and the other half was a tropical jungle with giant Hawaiian punch bottles. Two brothers lived in futari land, one for each half. They were a mix between the Hawaiian Punch mascot man and Sid the Science Kid. There was also a scientist who lived in a Little Shack where he would do experiments on me and try to turn me into grape juice or something. In the tropical jungle area, there was also a decrepit falling apart cabin with the teenagers (even though they're clearly adults) from this commercial. I also pretended that fruitarian land melted a bit and the singular drop of melted futare became a seed and grew a tree that was in my kindergarten play area that I called Old gnarly tree.
POV: You're watching TV, and you're too little to understand the commercials
Something that I've noticed in my art that I feel like is a huge part of it is the deconstruction of capitalism and advertising. Because I'm autistic, when I was little, I never actually understood commercials, but I was obsessed with them. I loved commercials despite not understanding them and what their purpose was. That's why when I thought of the commercial dimension, it wasn't actually advertising anything. It was just the aesthetics of commercials that you can see in the pieces of art I make to this day. It's the vibe of a commercial without any of the actual substance and purpose, which I just find really interesting that my brain clinged to that.
