Hasta La Creative!

Yesterday, a spy e-mailed us to say,

“Please take a look at the bizarre subway brand train campaign that posted for Remy Martin &#151 it’s like lesbian & threesome innuendo with the tagline ‘things just got a little more interesting.”

We’re pretty sure this is what the tipster was referring to, and we’d have to agree that there’s definitely some sexy-times being inferred. This writer is astounded that some people get all upset about the word “porno” while ads like this float around all the time. What gives?

In case you’re in RSS, the ad consists of four bill boards. Three of them show two or three women (it’s hard to tell), presumably at some kind of social event (though they’re all we see). One has the other’ necklace in her mouth, while the other’s head is tilted back. The tag line, “Things are getting interesting.” Do they mean that a game of Cranium is about to break out, because that’d be interesting &#151 the hottest game of Cranium of all time.

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Portland ad agency, Borders Perrin Norrander isn’t about to let Goodby have all the fun this political season.

BPN and their digital arm, Pollinate Media, are saying that Things Are Fine, but they don’t mean it.

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BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — L'Oreal appears to have hiked ad spending last quarter while rivals Procter & Gamble Co. and Unilever cut back. But it doesn't look to have helped L'Oreal much, as the company pulled down full-year sales guidance today based on a weak third quarter and a 5.7% decline in organic sales growth in North America.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In another sign that media companies expect the worst next year, the Conde Nast Media Group has already decided not to bring back its extravagant "Fashion Rocks" show for a sixth consecutive year next September.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Federal Trade Commission is hoping a new game-filled, experiential website launched today will help kids become smarter consumers.

The powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., is calling on the national TV and cable news channels to hold off projecting the winner of the presidential election Tuesday night until all polls nationwide are closed.

Above is another billboard we saw in Times Square today. Sprint has had this board up for a few weeks, but the white scaffold you see here wasn’t there. Um, we already know what the phone itself looks like, so either someone ran out of money or something is going to be built on top of it. Anyone familiar with this campaign who can help us out, e-mail matt@mediabistro dot com.

Note: We have no idea whose head is in the lower left corner of the pic.

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Sometimes I pause to ask myself just how many “Americas” we have in this country. There’s the America that Reagan idealized in his shining city upon a hill. As Joe Bageant reminds us in his book, Deer Hunting with Jesus, there’s also the a large backwoods America, where all kinds of strange ideas take root.

Today’s Washington Post takes us to one of the Bageantian hamlets that are hard for some urban, coastal sophisticates to imagine. But lack of imagination doesn’t make these places any less real.

Welcome to West Plains, MO:

Since it was erected by a local conservative about a month ago, the billboard has been criticized by political Web sites, media outlets and travelers passing through West Plains as racist, factually inaccurate and small-minded. More telling, though, has been the reaction — or lack of it — in the town itself.

“To a lot of us, the sign is just a step in the right direction,” said Kevin Collins, 38, who wrote to the local newspaper in support of the sign. “I’m like a pit bull, and believe some things are worth fighting for. We can’t just sit back and let him become president.”

The part that’s insane is the fact that Obama, more so than McCain, has small town America’s interests at heart. But “policy” doesn’t travel well to these isolated towns. “Policy” is something that educated people discuss over pear mojitos. Intolerance, however, well that arrives fresh each morning care of conservative talk radio.

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