In Wisconsin...

....they have Hoppy Hours, 

complete with giant black man in a pink bunny suit. 

Oh the mid west, how I miss thee.

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Durex and Goodyear Finally Team Up, Ad.

I know what you are thinking."What could this billboard ad with a set of road tires and one condom possibly be trying to convey? Whats the translation?" Well according to copy ranter is says  "A complete set of the road rubber."

Long live Mother Russia and thier advertising industry.

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Deliciuos Ads.

Line: It will go fast.

Mmmmmmmmm, delicious VW....delicious. 

Agency: BIG, Bejing China

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Is he the Devil?

Yeah...that just happened. A public news caster asked if the sitting President of the US was the devil.

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Huh Wha.

Jeans that uhhh....well they, they.....ummmmm. They make scantely clad chic pop up all over the place. Yea. On the next episode of When Fashion Ads Dont Try...

Agency: Armando Testa in Turin, Sveden

via adsoftheworld

Holes in the Plot.

I wonder where all the nut jobs are getting thier opinions from? Hmmmmmmm....

don't make no damn sense.

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Errrrrr....

I don't want to turn this into a celebrity blog.....but what in the HELL happened here? Beyonce at the premier of her new movie Cadillac Records. I want to comment on how Cadillac Records is Dream Girls 2 (a singer playing a singer...genius casting), but the Hairy armpits are throwing off my blogging game. 

P.S. Beyonce IS NOT Etta James.

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Burger Test (ending world hunger as we know it).

Crispin, Porter and Bogusky just deputed their new BK Whopper Virgin campaign. Apparently they went to all out and hired a well known producer or something, but in essence they made a "taste test" spot (very late 80s of them). The twist...taking a Big Mac and Whopper to the out skirts of the world: 1.) a rural farming village in Romania, 2.) a remote village in Thailand and 3.) to an outpost in Greenland and letting locals taste and judge. There is also some sort of count down to the results here at the micro site. 

The first thing that caught my attention in the spot I saw on TV (not the one above) is how ugly and beat up  they made the Big Mac look. Perception is key. Why would a remote villager pick the sloppy looking burger? Wouldn't you want 2 of the most perfect looking burgers so that judgment is not swayed by what I like to call "the first interview-dressed up" mistake. The second thing that came to mind is almost exactly what Jane said on her own blog, "If you have to go to the ends of civilization to find someone who likes your burger, you might be in the wrong business." I get the idea...they are puritans, unscathed by commercialism hence a great testing group. But who really cares? The third...if its a spot for burger king...why are you making it a timed anticipation campaign? I think we all could instinctively guess the results, which is why I stopped listening half way through the spot. Unless, the result is mad cow disease. That would be a twist.  

What I didn't think about was how offensive this campaign is. Sharon Akabas of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University said, "What's next? Are we going to start taking guns out to some of these remote places and ask them which one they like better?" Hmmmm, a little off target, but there is something sketchy about forcing our enlightened Western culture upon these rural populations (aka driving our gas guzzling Hummers filled with film crews and fast food and consumerism, smashing and selling everything in our way). It's kinda like that movie Fern Gully, minus the catchy songs and the druggy cartoon bat. Like Jane said so eloquently..."Why is it that WASPy white people are always the first to get offend on the behalf of other people? That to me is more offensive, because the poor uncivilised farmer is too stupid to be offended by this, so the educated and civilized white man will be offended on this behalf." Are you guys offended? I'm not. 

Lastly to the copy point above, taken from the site :"If you want a real opinion about a burger, ask someone who doesn't even have a word for burger." My question to you Burger King (a rebuttal if you will) is....do they-the someones- have words for a piece of cooked meat in between two pieces of bread? Let's say it slowly....MEEEAAAAATTTTT....BREEAAAAAAD. Cause that's all the Whopper is....if that...

Stab.

Tennis, no... Fashion, no... True Love.

This spot confuses me. Or maybe the brand confuses me. Adfreak has a not so enlightening blog post about it. They talk about Bjon Borg the fashion house. Then they talk about Bjron Borg, the dating site. Then they make reference to Bjon Borg...the tennis player. And some how...they are all connected.

I assume the spot is about the fashion line with the tag: Love for All. But then there is some crazy tennis theme to the swanky (sounding) dating site and on the fashion site...Borg, the tennis player is posted all over it. So, is this line from Bjorn Borg or are they simply selling cloths specifically for gay priests?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around it. What exactly is the thread of consciousness here. All things aside...those Swedes sure do know how to stick it to the Catholic Church. Toto...we aren't in California anymore. Don't know the agency.

someone went a little photoshop crazy...

....over at GQ. I'm not hatin here (and maybe its just me)....but doesn't this cover shot look like the love child of Obama and Denzel Washington? 

Hmmmm.....

UPDATE: I figured it out...they darkened him up a bit too much....but I really think its more than that.... 

UPDATE :2 Check the GQ man of the year list, to see if you made it. 

something is a little strange on the west coast.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

About the new 90210 on CW.

Im all for diversifying and such. But there is a sense of tv  actuality that  the old 90210 had. 

Im not saying that a kid from Baltimore working the corners to support his little brother whilst avoiding his crackhead dad, couldnt magically get up and move to Beverly Hills to become the token. 

But I am saying, that its kind of unlikely.

Think....85 thousand seasons of Friends with only two african american sightings in the village of nyc... unlikely.

I know its 2008 and network tv tries really hard to be PC. But an african american with a leading role in a drama set in Beverly Hills. Come one........I've seen Clueless already. Im thinking the first series didnt have a token black guy for a reason.

I guess, I just like my tv dramas to have a small dose of reality. So sue me!

gay nike ads.

Some more ads pulled for being too homo-erotic.

Nike Hyper Dunks.

Wieden + Kennedy tried to fight the good fight and argue about the insight and the tone of the lines...which are pretty awesome. Im am positive that I have used the phrase "That aint right" back in my ballin days (really, really, really long time ago).

Why is the public so hypersensitive? Apparently the crotch in the face had some negative reactions. And while Ive never been dunked on per se(my D is tight..."D" is slang for defense...tight is slang for very good) I personaly would not like the feeling of peepee in/on my face. But thats what happens. And if your really lucky, the dunker "might" be wearing some underwear. Might.

Anyway...its blows that a good campaign got nixxed over a chosen art direction execution. Especially a good one. 

More executions here.

Sad.

VIA adfreak

yeah...ok, chicago.

one reason, Im not sad to leave Illinois.



Date: June 7th
Location: West of Chicago
My reaction: Rocking slowly in my bed saying the Our Father prayer.

"Illinois, this is not Twister , the movie....its my life." Besides, Jodie Foster is a lesbian. There are no lesbian costaring my life right now. See you soon NY.

musicians are artists too...

If Kanye didnt completely confuse us with the first A&T music video he made for his nice sounding song Flashing lights. here's the new one.


Equally as pointless and filled with T&A for no reason. But no worries...Kanye never has to explain himself.

another anti cigarette, cigarette ad.

"Smoking kills more" and its Hitler made out of the tops of cigarettes. Get it? Hitler kills and so do cigarettes. Surprise. This ad is made out of 13,000 real cigarettes-not photoshopped. Here it is being made(theres a nice little song that goes with it). Remember the last time I scolded the industry for buying thousands of cigarettes to make a point? Well, this is the same thing.

Its just so backwards in my mind. I dont understand it. Still...I do love myself a solid Hitler ad.

Verbal Abuse in Advertising.

Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore hits us with some literal translations on verbal abuse. Spousal no less. Wait...maybe "hits us" isnt the best way to approach this blog. Ummm, belts us...beats us...uhhhh, bellows...yeah bellows.

As a kid, I use to think that my mom verbally abused me. Now, I realize I was overreacting...she was probably right....I didnt need anymore cookies before bed.

But hey...the party isnt over yet. New Brazilian shop Gringo also has a hot mouth. And a potty breath. Or the other way around. Within 5 seconds of watching...I felt completely uncomfortable looking at this site. And Im all messed up in the head. Their tag: “Make it naughty or amoral. Or both!”
You do learn how to say naughty words in other languages....and thats pretty cool.

I wonder what thier clients will think? What do you think?

Gladiators and Amputees dont really mix.

Im a little ashamed to admit this, and I am probably the only one still on the band wagon here...but I watched the season 2 premier of American Gladiator. Whooorah!

So...there are new Gladiators (the winners from last years and a hottie called Phoenix). There are new events (ripped directly from Nickelodeon kids game shows of the early 90s). But the most ridiculous thing was the contender. They had an amputee competeing. And not just any amputee, but one that was missing a leg. Which is like...a totally needed limb.

He like use to be in the army or something and he was a champion in the special Olympics. And I know what your thinking...your thinking, "Good For him...it doesnt really matter if he wins or loses." And your a good person for thinking that. I totally agree. Good for him. But you didn't see it.

He was doing fine in the events (wall climbing being one of them ::side eye::). He probably did better than anything I couldve done on my best day. So...kudos. But OMG. The producers were not thinking when it came to him doing the eliminator. In essence the eliminator consists of swimming, climbing a net, walking across a plank then a revolving cylinder, walking up and down a see saw and then...and then an uphill tread mill. This man...was missing a leg. And it was painful to watch. There was nothing enduring about it. He couldnt swim. His fake spring foot got caught in the net, he fell off all the balancing things and then...they had to turn the moving hill off....because you know what....he was missing a leg.

Jesus....it all made me cringe. it was like watching an car accident about to happen and then witnessing the horrible after math. As the car with the baby on board sticker is starting its 15th tumble...you start to realize, some one made an awful mistake.

See a little bit of it here. It was just a little bit sadistic.

P.S. Check out the behind the scenes maddness that goes on during the show. Memorable quote regarding the amputee who had just lost: ""he put his best foot forward, but it just wasn't enough."

not Thriller.

MJ is rolling around in his grave. Oh wait, he isnt dead yet.
Im embarassed for him.

getting freaky...religously.

I feel like everyone should know about this. Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have spawned 18 children. 7 girls and 10 boys. There are two sets of twins (2x creepy). And the family lives in a 7,000 square foot home in Arkansas and they have a reality series for Discovery Health.

Ive officialy witnessed the show. The family is ubber religious and doesn't believe in birth control. Its basically a f*ckfest in the most literal sense of the term. Baby factory Duggar has been pregnant 135 months of her life. Months. All of the kids are home taught (which means they are all freaks). Every Duggar child learns to play both violin and piano. The Duggar family also lives a completely debt-free lifestyle (how is this possible?...I reached my credit limit about 2 yrs ago, only on one person). And Momma Duggar has a horrible mullet.

The kid's names all start with the letter "J"....ahem....Josh, 20; Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; Johannah, 2; and Jennifer, 9-months.

This....should be illegal.