ehm isn't it a bit too much? bitchy i would say
- Eta
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Dita Von Teese's whole thing is about being too much!
- Andrew C
Bitchy, playful... perfect. Especially love the last shot.
- Fossil Huntress
Oh looky...who do we have here?? Fancy that...it's Ms Von Teese!! *wipes the drool away from your mouth* ;p <333
- Emma
Very nice; red is very hard to pull off as a color
- RAPatton
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Oooo la la. Dita always pleases. And she looks HOT in red. Granted, these are photoshopped all the hell, but it works for Dita since she's more pin-up style.
- Jason Huebel
Wow! Didn't know there was so much love for the Dita! :-) she's a classic beauty, for sure...the SECOND most beautiful woman in the world! ;) <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from iPhone
Uh oh...was i drooling again, Emma? :-o I really need to work on that....or get a bib ;p <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from iPhone
The bib is probably easier. Because this group will surely have more Dita pics.
- Jason Huebel
@RAPatton... but there's something 'more'... that 'x' factor... sexual charisma? something witchy? in any case, i surrender... happily
- T. Brent, technopeasant
she's timeless....that's about the best way to describe her look...very few people can pull that off, in my opinion... ;-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
i like the designs of all the bottles , but i think about all the kids thinking that this vodka must be something great and drink until the limit , that s why i can t give a like for... !
- Mirialmani
Because I'm vain as can be, I just Googled myself and came across this oldie but goodie. It's me, starring in an ad campaign I created for SMU. I can't believe that, seven years later, students are still loving on those posters! - http://www.pegasusnews.com/news...
"The ad agency, DDB Brasil, is denying responsibility for a video version of the ad that’s making the rounds. This denial is a little hard to swallow, since the video’s intro features a title card with DDB Brasil’s name on it, along with a date in June. That’s an awful lot of trouble to go through to frame a company for producing a video ad that it admits to doing a print version of. Here’s the very disturbing Youtube video."
- Brad Williamson
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WOW. The WWF is lucky that it's pretty much impossible to ditch your support of an organization that protects animals, because any other entity would be blackballed in an instant for running an ad campaign like this.
- Brad Williamson
MediaITE is not reliable, from everything I've seen. I'm not an environmentalist, but I've seen nothing prior to this ill-placed ad by DDB Brasil that would implicate WWF in this type of advertising (I'll grant, I haven't gone out of my way to look though). WWF has adamantly defended its position of renunciation of this tasteless video from day 1.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
If that's not the WWF's ad, then someone invested a whole lotta money in that spot to make them look bad. I sure wouldn't want to be on their bad side, if that's the sort of retaliation they're capable of. (And, granted, I, too, haven't done much research on this either. I also hope this isn't the WWF's doing.)
- Brad Williamson
Hard to say, regarding an original sourcing (I understand your meaning, though! scary!). My understanding was that this was an entry into a contest - and contests of an artistic nature don't subscribe to a lot of the same conventions of "American decency" we're considering. Meaning, I don't think an American would necessarily react to a symbolic replay of the 2005 tsunami in quite the...
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- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
Really? You heard it was a contest? By chance, do you have a link to anything that sheds light on that angle?
- Brad Williamson
well, the contest theory sounds reasonable. i'm curious about that too.
- bora "head" basman
Brad: Let me do some hunting and if I can find the link, I'll post it here.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
Okay, here's the series of links: I started here: http://www.cbc.ca/consume..., which led me here: http://gothamist.com/2009... (and the screen shot in question here: http://designnotes.info/...). WWF is saying that DDB used their logo without authorization, and The One Club has tried denying the award (though the screenshot gives away that fib). I haven't read any statement by DDB Brasil at this point.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
http://adage.com/globaln... just released. "Sergio Valente, president of DDB Brasil, said the ad was presented to the WWF in Brazil in December 2008 and approved; it then ran once in a small local paper. "
- bora "head" basman
Nice investigative journalism, Denise! You should let Mediaite know about your findings ;-)
- Brad Williamson
I think bora "head" basman did a better job - that article essentially proves WWF's culpability on a small scale (in Sao Paulo)... *chuckle* I would never make it as an investigative journalist, Brad. I detest cameras...LOL
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
I swear you're, like, friggin' Connie Chung and stuff ;-)
- Brad Williamson
just passed on a rss feed. keep on investigating, nice job .)
- bora "head" basman
What I find both disturbing and amusing is that this ad *is* quite interesting (from an artistic standpoint and the message it tries to drive home) - it evokes emotion instantly, which is what art is meant to do...but, what I find most amusing is how *EVERYONE* is trying to toss the hot potato. Nobody wants to be responsible for it.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
*chuckle* Yep, with the note that: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by DDB BRASIL." ~ so whether they want to accept culpability for its dissemination or not, the copyright claim is a declaration of ownership. Nicely, this places the unwanted culpability directly on them, not WWF.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
If you look at this ad from a non USA, maybe non-Western perspective, thus taking away some very understandable emotion and negative connotation, the ad actually makes a very succint point: if we as human beings do not start taking better care of mother earth, natural disasters will become more common; remember that the 2006 tsunami had a deathtoll 100 times that of 9/11. Do I still...
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- Rene Wirtz
Yep, Rene. This was part of what I was trying to express earlier that you just did far better. The ad, in and of itself, is quite interesting in what I perceive to be its intent. The very same theme could be used with, say, Hiroshima...and Americans (or Westerners in general) would probably not react so strongly. It is a reminder that mother nature is, indeed, a brutally powerful force....
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- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
"Mr. Gilmore, the notorious spree-killer, uttered the words “Let’s do it” just before a firing squad executed him in Utah in 1977. Years later, the phrase became the inspiration for Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign. The revelation about the “Just Do It” slogan is one of many fly-on-the-wall anecdotes that the famous names of the advertising world share in a new documentary by the filmmaker Doug Pray called “Art & Copy,” to be released in New York on Friday. The film takes some of advertising campaigns that are most indelibly seared into the American consciousness — “Got Milk?,” “I (Heart) NY,” “I Want My MTV,” to name a few — and examines their path from ad slogans to pop culture glory."
- Brad Williamson
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"On the 9th of August 1956, 20,000 South African women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to oppose the Urban Areas Act, commonly known as the Pass Laws – legislation that required ‘non-whites’ to carry a document known as the Dom Pas which would allow them to move around, or live in ‘White South Africa’. The day is now commemorated as Women’s Day."
- Live4Emma (L4S)
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