Tag Archives: Media

Bush minus 30 seconds

By alex | Published: 1/5/2004
The finalists for the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest are up. Some of these are just not very good, while several are quite affecting (not the same as effective, mind you). I am partial to the message in the In My Country ad, not surprisingly given a similar post I made a while back. […]
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More on selling

By alex | Published: 12/9/2003
I recently posted on Abercrombie’s soft porn catalog, and was somewhat critical of it. Now I want to backtrack firmly to the top of the fence. I am not really down on advertising. In fact, I *enjoy* many ads when they are done well. Advertising is persuasion, but it is also art. If A&F decides […]
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Selling sex

By alex | Published: 12/2/2003
How is anyone still shocked by the Abercrombie Catalog? Especially if you work in media? But maybe that’s because they can’t find their clothes. In the catalog, the first sweater doesn’t show up until Page 122 and by then, you’re too tired from masturbating to shop. But I’m missing the point. The catalog isn’t about […]
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Matrix concludes

By alex | Published: 11/5/2003
I have nothing to say on this that the Rolling Stone hasn’t already: “At the risk of understatement, The Matrix Revolutions sucks.”
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