Monday, May 26, 2008

Link Haze, 5/26/08.

• Area 51 Love Doll. (link)
• "Dov, you're not selling t-shirts, you're selling neo teen porn and rape fantasies!" (link)
• This 1980s Windows 386 promo video starts slow, but just wait til the nice woman starts singing. (link, thanks to Jocelyn McCanles)
• A Canadian man is selling ad space on his prosthetic leg. Which is so ironic, it twists my brain into a mushy pretzel. (link)
• Shitty film director Brett Ratner is becoming a brand consultant. Not coincidentally, I've decided to launch my own brand consultancy with this bullet point. (link)
• Bad ad headline of the week. (link)
• Headline translated, copy not. Fuck cultural sensitivity. (link)
• HBO set up voting booths in Union Square to promote the movie Recount. (link)
• Coke and Pepsi vow to eliminate marketing to kids under 12. Yeah, and I vowed to love and cherish...til death do us etc. (link)
• Related: The evilest soda pop ad ever. (link)
• BK UK introduces the burger six-pack. (link)
• The best use of lighting on a Lotto billboard. (link)
• 1960s anti-drug pamphlet trippy, funny. (link)
Chloë Sevigny Uniqlo ad harshly tagged. In Williamsburg! The indignity! (link)
• Sexual stimulant tablets packaging features Klimt's "The Kiss" (link)
• Weird-ass food sculptures. (link)
• As a drummer, this is the most depressing "art" installation I've ever seen: "Each day at 11:40 pm, the stick strokes the snare once." (link, via)

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just to be clear -- that "evilest" ad is an obvious fake.

3:39 PM  
Blogger copyranter said...

But it's got an address in it——it's got to be real! Don't rain on my parade!

7:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And just a note...that "untranslated" ad:

The headline is in Tagalog, a language of the Philippines, where most people do understand English. It's really not uncommon to have a bi-lingual ad like this.

8:26 AM  

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