Want to boost sales? Create a commercial for your yearbook! Play it during morning video announcements, post it on the school website, or just upload it to YouTube and pass the link around. Here are some of the best yearbook commercials I’ve found online right now. Maybe they’ll inspire you!
P.S. If you DO create your own commercial, let me know, so I can post it up here, too!
If you haven’t seen “Font Conference”, first you need to click here and watch that first. Then come back here and watch the sequal… (Thanks, Carla, for sharing this!)
The following tips are from Bill Simmons, sports columnist, who posted them on ESPN.com. (Why is ESPN giving yearbook tips? Not sure, but I guess that just goes to show how important yearbooks are in our culture!)
“Some tips about your yearbook choices:
If you can help it, avoid picking any quote from a band that might not be around in 10 years. If you want to cast your lot with Kid Rock, the White Stripes, Alicia Keys, India Arie, The Vines, The Hives or any of these other musical acts that people enjoy right now … you’re basically rolling the dice. Look at poor Adam. Bananarama. This actually happened. If it’s a bubblegum act of the day, stay away. Stick with Bruce, the Stones, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and everyone else who will remain respectable 20 years from now.
If you feel like doing something wacky with your picture — a nose piercing, a visible tattoo, a freaky hairdo — don’t do it. You will regret it. Remember, you’ll be showing your kids this thing some day.
If they allow a section where you can write little comments, tributes and dedications, then …
Never say anything maudlin or sentimental about the person you’re dating — you will be linked to them forever and ever. Just remember, when you get to college, you will break up with them by Columbus Day Weekend, probably get back together during Thanksgiving Break, then break up for good during Christmas vacation. Everyone thinks, “Oh, it won’t happen to us.” Believe me, it’s going to happen — 99 out of 100 people eventually break up with their high school flames. So keep the gooey stuff to minimum. If you’re devoting a quote to your significant other, choose this one: “Dead man walking!”
Never gratuitously thank your parents, friends, family … that’s just lame. Nobody wants to read that stuff. If you want to thank someone, thank a teacher. They devoted their lives to helping kids like you, you ungrateful slob.
Make a conscious effort to include obscure references and inside jokes that will confuse everybody and please your friends, especially if they’re dirty and/or secretly defamatory to someone else in your class. One catch: Don’t make them so obscure that you won’t have any idea what they mean 15 years later. That’s no fun.
Don’t identify your friends by their initials. Just write their names. Years later, you won’t even remember what half the initials stood for.
If you have a close friend of the opposite sex, don’t spend too much time on them … odds are, one of you will end up making a move on the other one down the road, it will play out badly, and you will never speak again. And even if you make it through college, once you get married, your spouse won’t let you be friends with them anymore. So start cutting ties now. Again, just trust me.
Most importantly, have fun with your quote. Nobody wants to read how miserable you are, or how confused you are, or how much you hate everyone, or how everyone underestimated you, or how parents and teachers are purely and simply evil, or the world’s keeping you down, or how nobody loves you … come on! It’s high school! Everyone’s miserable in high school! That’s why they created high school! So have some fun. I’ve always been jealous of my buddy Geoff for picking this yearbook quote:
“ .” – Mark Bavaro
Absolutely brilliant. Everyone else was killing themselves coming up with these tortured quotes, and Geoff mocked the entire thing. Why didn’t I think of that? Damn him…”
Simmons then lists several quotes he wishes he would have used back in high school. Here are just a few…
“Some mistakes you never stop paying for.” – Roy Hobbs
“Don’t have anything in your life that you can’t walk away from in 30 seconds.” – De Niro in “Heat”
“Cheer up, Brando! How ’bout a mega-burger?” – Nat Busichio
“I have three rules which I live by: Never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city, and never go near a lady with a tattoo of a dagger on her hand. Now you stick with that, and everything else is cream cheese.” – The basketball coach in “Teen Wolf”
“Those fans who are booing me now will be cheering for me when I record the final out in the World Series” – Bob Stanley, April 1986
To read the entire list (and it is a LONG list), click here.
Or lend some seniors a helping hand by posting some of your favorite quotes below…
Does your staff need some creative inspiration? Or maybe just a good laugh between deadlines? Here are some bus advertisements to get their creative juices going…
For more creative bus ads, visit the original post on toxel.com
Can you guess who’s who? Pictured below are the yearbook photos of…
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Joe Biden
John McCain
Sarah Palin
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Nancy Pelosi
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Al Gore
Click on the photo for the correct answers.
For more politicians’ yearbook photos, click here to visit “vetocorleone.com” (but don’t click on the “Death Masks of U.S. Politicians” page (creepy…. but still kinda cool… in a very creepy way…)
The goal of the game is too zoom in on different students and click your camera at just the right moment to frame an embarrassing picture (i.e. straw appears to going up someone’s nose, person standing in front of a hot dog display appears to have hot dogs growing out of head, etc… Basically, everything we spend all year teaching the kids NOT to do).
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