New AIDS ads...

Are silly. The cartoon approach works sometimes.....but clearly, not all the time.

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One thing Milk doesn't do.

Conjure Green lantern rings from across the universe for you (the milk drinker) to turn into a super hero. Nope. Doesn't make sense does it? ::side eye::

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The Dangerous Womb of the Black Woman.

This lovely billboard went up in Soho earlier this week. The line: “The Most Dangerous Place For An African-American Child Is In The Womb.”

Sigh...where do I start? Let's take ones personal opinion of abortion out of this for a second. The advocates for this poster as saying "facts, are facts...black women have more abortions." So since facts are facts (cause you know all of life is that simple), what exactly are you hoping to accomplish with this poster? Are you trying to stop black women from having abortions? Or are you trying to let every other race know how f*cked up the black woman is?

Point blank...everyone has the right to have an opinion about abortion, but slandering and entire population for the hell of it (with absolutely no regard to the issues behind the scene) is appalling. I personally feel that woman's right on the matter are a little bit more indepth than a statistic. And when you are going to call one out, why would you pick the one about race...and put it up in New York city...the mecca of ethnicity?

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The Linkdown: My Gift yo You on Xmas.

1. Yep, that throwback just happened.

2. And you thought you had a good time at your holiday party.

3. Why fix the saggy pants craze when you can make money off of it. Introducing the man garter belt suspenders.

4. I would like to that Santa for Megan Fox. That's it.

5. Ok...I hate posting baby crap. But this some cute shit.

6. Should guys groom their pubic hair? A winter discussion indeed.

7. Playstation kinect gets kinky. It was only a matter of time.

8. A NY Christmas.

9. Top Google searched of 2010! Next year Im gonna be on this ish.

10. Rudolph just cant take the stress anymore.

11. The UAE doesn't quiet understand Christmas....but they spent alot of monay anyway.

Holiday Ad Gone Wrong.

Now....if I were put in charge of making a men's underwear ad for the holiday season, the logical situation would be "models partaking in actions done among consensual adults." But in Brazil....this is what you get. Menstruating mom's back up boy-toy secretly stealing a glance at the kids in the middle of the night in his boxer briefs.....

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Really Italy?

This could be a slight nod to the term "shit storm." But what it definitely is: a stab at New Orleans (even if you don't thinks so), which is tacky. And for a baby....

Agency: JWT/RMG Connect Milan

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Castellar.

Casteller from Mike Randolph on Vimeo.

In the city of Tarragona, Spain, castellers gather every two years to see who can build the highest, most intricate human castles. This uniquely Catalan tradition requires astonishing strength, finesse, and balance. Not to mention courage.

So I watched this video, think I would see a bunch of Europeans do some pretty awesome, yet ridiculously useless people formations. What I discovered, was the joy of watching people fall from the sky into an inevitable crumbling mass of Spaniard bodies.....I think EVERYONE needs to be wearing a helmet. It's all fun and games until some kills themselves.

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How do you know your logo is bad?

When you are forced to make a microsite, inviting everyone and thier grandmother to redesign it. Shouldn't have touched it in the first place. Especially if you where just gonna spin a wheel, land on a sans-serif and but a gradient box behind the "p". I'm just saying. Whamp whamp.

Or maybe you figure out it was bad whe a third party creates a website that mocks your attempts at rebranding.....

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America...you scare me.

.....bad idea. Really bad idea. If it's not illegal. Make it illegal.

Cause this is some backwards and dangerous shit.

The Mesh Bed.

It's all fun and good until someone wants to get thier freak on.

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The Face Book Movie.

Here's a twist....instead of playing on the audiences nostalgia, the movie world decided to make a movie about something that still exists today. It's like an Ancient Egyptian watccing a reenactment of the building of the pyramids, whilst the pyramids were being built. Wait, what?

Oh yeah...my point being...can't we just wiki it? Or better yet, log on to facebook.

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The Durex Baby App.

Durex Baby from Peter Ammentorp on Vimeo.

This is suppose to get "21 year old stallions" to keep it in their pants, huh? What if they just dont use the app? Then....it's all useless. No? And in the long run.....cant you just delete the app? Is that iphone baby abortion...or even worse, iphone baby genocide?

But seriously, this is just a classic case of creative relying too much on the hip new medium.

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Horrible Spot.

Collective sigh. This is really bad.

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London Olympics, Strike 2 (or what ever game they play across the pond...cricket?).

Ok, so remember when everyone was making fun on London's 2010 Olympics logo? Well in an attempt to win the world back....this is thier second step in branding. Every Olympics needs mascots, I guess. The Olympic mascot on the left is named Wenlock and the Paralympic mascot on the right is name Mandeville.

I just dont know where to start. Should I make a Barney reference? Or a Real Monsters joke? I mean....it's one thing to come up with a horrible logo to represent an international historical event, but it's a completely different crime to get wasted at the local pub, stumble home only to puke your brains out all night, and then use the remnants of the inside of your toilet bowl as creative inspiration.

That's just obscene London. Obscene.

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High Fashion Kobe.

At first I thought...."who is this in black face?" Then I thought..."ewww, this is not a good look." And then then I laughed for fifteen minutes straight at the last picture with the head scarf. LA...come get your boy. He has too much free time. Let's stick to the oversized suites and tear away sweats Kobe.

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The Linkdown: Post Easter 2010.

1. Dropping 10,000 Easter Eggs form the sky and shouting "Go" causes a mass riot? Get out of here...who would thought?

2. But somehow, the 5th Annual Pillow Fight in Time Square, went on without a hitch. Who said Easter wasn't dangerous?

3. How do you get little kids into the Heavy Metal genre? Dino Metal.

4. Amnesty International....always the fashion critics.

5. Va J-J Visors. Cause your Vagina hates being blinded by the sun.

6. The History Channel tells us what Jesus looked like. AKA Still somehow he is a white dude who happened to live in the Middle East.

7. Avoiding Skull Sperm. Or Skelator Sperm.

8. Google maps, now trying to conquer UPS. Thank the gods.

9. When you paint swastikas on people's cubicle...believe it or not, it's racist.

Freddy Kreuger lives in Dubai and eat Burger King, Ad...

Along with the rest of the supernatural demons from our chold hood (sans the Scream dude-cause he was just a person in a mask). I'm guessing these were made in Dubai. They are doing the heavy lifting visual to reinforce the "Open Late," is I guess is good...if it was 1993. Which it very well still be in Dubai.

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To relieve the stresses of carrying your ipod (with your hands and pockets)..

"The Dew Quiver efficiently stows your personal devices. Its insound system allows you to listen to and operate your mp3 or iPod, receive and make calls from the touch of a button. Insert your mp3, wallet, phone, and other small belongings into the pockets, plug the headphones, adjust the strap, and go! "

This would be ground breaking. Except for the fact that ipods (and their genealogy) were made especially to be....on the go. Which makes this product...pretty useless. Infact, it adds to the layering of an already- extras world. In my opinion. But perhaps it's good for hipsters who dont like to carry bags. Maybe they should make it in tote material and market it as bicycle friendly. And dont forget the piffy anti society themed pins.

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TMI Ads.

Rule of thumb. If you are making a headline driven ad....you should probably figure out a way to not be insulting before the ad leaves the agency. Especially when you are talking about Vaginal Tightening Cream. And you are using magenta.....

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Damn , France.

"The campaign, he said, is to convince young people that smoking is instead 'an act of naïveté and submission.' He continued: 'We can’t be tepid on this subject, we have to hit hard. We are working against years of myth on the basis of films and stars, and we fight against this with zero euros.'

I swear. Other countries be getting away with some crazy ass sh*t in the ad making game. Preteens giving blow jobs to middle aged men as an hyperbole for smoking. The Line: “To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco.” I'm not even sure I get what they are saying. Is giving blow jobs similar to slavery. Cause if so......________. The image by itself reads like your just doing this dirty old man a favor. I dunno. 

France went hard. They might have missed. But they went hard. 

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