Hasta La Creative!

Thank goodness we don’t use paypal anymore, as they’d likely freak over this new Hästens ad, which
a lot like the nude Sophie Dahl ad for Opium that got us banned from Paypal many moons ago. Pale nude red headed beauties with hands on their tits seem to freak out a lot of people as Resumé reports that the campaign, which is the most expensive one for Hästens to date, is receiving harsh reviews from the Swedish ad community as it objectifies women. Yes, we are total prudes in the land of nude beaches and free sex. Might be a bit of culture clash going on, as Hästens is a loved Swedish brand, and Barker/DZP is giving our handmade all-natural classic furniture with a 25-year warranty the sexy treatment as if the product had no history or decent selling propositions. The campaign was shot by Simon Procter, and Emma Sandsjö spokesperson for Hästens in Sweden calms us all down by saying that he’s shot the woman wearing a nightie too, and that if there are strong reactions against the nude version they’ll run the dressed one in Sweden. Since the nude one would in all likelihood be reported immediately to the Swedish ‘ad police’ ERK, that seems to be a safe move.

As a pale redhead who sleeps in the nude, I would like to announce it does not look like this when I sleep. I don’t levitate as far as I know.

You can watch the making of the ad campaign on Hästens website.

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My my, you must be really really naive if you thought that the Dove campaign was’t a tad retouched. Of course it was, retouch includes getting better colors and removing distracting stuff such as plain old dust, seams in clothing or stray strands of hair. Still, some people find this quote from an interview with Pascal Dangin in the New Yorker a ‘shocking revelation’.

I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual “real women” in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job. “Do you know how much retouching was on that?” he asked. “But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.”

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A group that calls themselves “Brysterne pÃ¥ Bussen” (The boobs on the bus) are a tad annoyed at the

»We wonder where all the naked men are. Why is it always naked women that we see in the public space. Today anything can be improved [with plastic surgery], and it is a shame that men can’t also see how they can optimize their bodies. That they never see nor get the chance to compare their genitals to other mens.« says spokesperson Irene Manteufel a journalist and part of the group “The boobs on the bus” to Politiken.dk.
To show what a truly equal society should have they’ve taken a current plastic surgeon ad now running in Denmark which shows a pair of naked breats with the line “New Breasts”, and photoshopped it for a male version instead.

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Oh no, not again, like we didn’t see enough of this “clever” Greek flavour when the movie “My Big Fat GRΣΣK Wedding” came out. Few things annoy me as much as faux greek, but faux cyrillic and heavy metal bands idiot use of cool “umlauts” are right up there with it. Us arty folks already have a bit of an idiot reputation, what with some “silly art school” behind us where no “real subjects” were studied, and lets not forget that the clients nephew has a mac so he can probably “whip something up”. Do not cement our reputation as fools with stuff like this, please. They’ll let copywriters get away with calling calling a chimpanzee a “monkey”, but that’s because they don’t know any better themselves. (Here’s a trick for you who don’t know the difference between an ape and a monkey, monkeys have tails). With three million Americans residents in the United States that claim Greek descent and god knows how many ex-college kids that learned at least some of the letters (enough to join a fraternity or sorority at least), you might just be insulting someones intelligence when you’re trying to be smart. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be insulting the client. Stop it.

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Eva Longoria Parker who plays Gabrielle Solis on Desperate housewives may want to call a lawyer – or just close her eyes and pretend she never saw this.

Pipedream products (link totally NSFW!) has come up with a series of blow-up dolls themed around stars characters in TV shows and films – I don’t know if this is sheer genius or creepy as hell.

There’s Sarah Jessica Parker as her sex in the city character, and Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba as her Sin City self. To save you from persuing any porn-pages you may click read more simply laugh at the packaging of these things. I hope I don’t have to repeat that they are considered kind of not safe for work etc – I mean, it’s blow-up doll packaging. There will be words on it that may offend you or your pets.

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Holy wtf, the christians have caught on to the hype, learned a few buzzwords and invented a few more and now there’s Christvertising where prayer can make your product be positioned in a positive light in the eyes of that guy in the sky. If he likes it, everyone else will. Talk about the great influencer, right?

No, really. Srsly. Check out Christvertising.com. Try not to let your jaw drop all the way down to the floor. Or die of laughter.

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taken from Everything’s Better With Brentter: Lexus – Missing h

So Lexus just released this spot promoting their new hybrid line of automobiles. In it they try to show us what a typical day would be like if all of a sudden a letter in the alphabet (you guessed it: the “H”) were to all of a sudden go missing. This was a product of Team One (LA) and I have to admit that I liked this spot, but that’s just because I think I might have some sort of psychological disorder that makes me like 90% of all Lexus ads…..no matter how “off” they might be in concept (I’m still waiting to get the test results from the doc. though, so we’ll just have to wait and see on whether this is treatable).
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