Advertising Is Good For You

Who's grandma spending Christmas with next year, is what I want to know

Order your Merry Christmas from Heaven® photo ornament from The Lighter Side Co.

Halloween Week: Ad for Chronic'art Magazine

Does Internet reveal all our perversions?

Advertising Agency: DraftFCB, Paris

Source: Ads of the World

Creepy Ralph Lauren ad

When I first saw this ad posted on the web a few days ago, I thought it was a hoax. Look at her! She has the proportions of a Barbie doll.

Turns out, it's a real ad.

It's not a real woman's body, of course. That has been photoshopped to ridiculous effect.

Ralph Lauren's reaction to criticism of the ad is ridiculous, too. Read about it HERE.

Come to think of it, she doesn't look so much like a Barbie as she does another doll:

 

ADDENDUM posted 21 October 2009

More Ralph Lauren nonsense.

Read about it at the Daily Mail.

Possibly the most chilling horror movie name/tag line combination ever

The Collector

He always takes one.

Here are two other movie posters for The Collector:

Source: Internet Movie Poster Awards

Disturbing campaign for Wusthof knives

Eeeeeeeeeeeew!

 

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Bangkok

Source: ADs of the World

Oh, I get it. Hearts and minds need art.

Ads for the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico City.

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb México

Source: The Arab Aquarius

Let's play dentist

This is the awesome rotary tool set one of my brothers gave me for Christmas last year. I used it for the first time today to cut some screws down to the size I needed. Being a woman, I of course read the directions and warnings that came with my tool set. Take a look at the last warning on this list:

First, I laughed. Then, I remembered that scene in Marathon Man.

Creepy sale ads for Harvey Nichols

Advertising Agency: DDB London, UK

Source: Ads of the World

Duncan Quinn. Suits for men who hate women.

Feministe has named this the Most Disturbing Ad of the Year. I agree.

Appropriately creepy ads

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb, Bucharest
Illustrator: Valentin Petridean

Source: Ads of the World

Chills up your spine

Pre-9/11/01 advertising:

These and other eerie 9/11-related ephemera are at Dark Roasted Blend.

How much is that crazy in the window?

Those Lush beauty products people are at it again.

To raise awareness of the cruel practice of slicing off shark fins to make shark fin soup and shark cartilage supplements (gory details here), Lush and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society hired performance artist Alice Newstead to hang from her piercings in the window of the Lush store on Regent Street in London.

Ms. Newstead hanged for 15 minutes from de-barbed shark hooks. Despite the bleeding, she said it didn't hurt.

Still, I prefer the naked Germans.

Mysterious and ookey