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Calvin Klein 'Rape' Ads Banned Down Under
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Oct. 25) -- A racy Calvin Klein ad showing a nearly naked female model being straddled and held by the hair has been banned in Australia, where officials say it encourages rape and violence. The government's Advertising Standards Bureau has ordered the controversial billboards be removed after declaring the images were "demeaning to women by suggesting that she is a plaything of these men," Australia's Herald Sun reported. Calvin Klein This Calvin Klein ad was banned in Australia because it was deemed "demeaning to women." The black-and-white photo shows supermodel Lara Stone, wearing ...
Bandit Sign Haiku: The Latest Art Installation in Atlanta?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- Many American commuter roads are dotted with aesthetically ugly and morally dubious small advertisements for loaning agencies, weight-loss plans and other invitations to the gullible and desperate. "Bandit signs," they're called. Now, Atlanta-based artist John Morse has posted 500-some counter-signs throughout his home city, reports the New Yorker: [His] signs came with a unique twist: they were written in the form of a haiku, the traditional Japanese poem that consists of 17 syllables when written in English. Instead of images of nature and the changing seasons, Morse's poems ...
Boxer 'Billy the Billboard' Pays the Bills With Tattoo Sponsorships
By Joe Peacock - AOL News(July 7) -- I'm an avid collector and appreciator of tattoos, so I tend to run into news that revolves around that culture quite often. That's how I came to know about Billy Gibby -- also known as Billy the Human Billboard -- an amateur boxer out of Alaska who is living his dream of being a fighter and paying the bills by selling spots on his body for permanent tattoos featuring the logos of corporate sponsors. As with everyone else who encounters Billy the Human Billboard for the first time, the thoughts that went through my head were "[vulgar expletive], what is he thinking?" followed by a ...
Bad Hair Day? Madison Avenue Can Fix It -- and Fix You, Too
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySurprise surprise. Yet another study pathologizes a common and trivial life disappointment -- bad hair days. So says Wall Street Journal, reporting on a new Procter & Gamble study. The company wants to know why their Pantene brand is not selling better. Wall Street Journal writes: "Scientists at the consumer-products giant surveyed women and found they felt less 'hostile,' 'ashamed,' 'nervous,' 'guilty' or 'jittery,' depending on the hair products they used, while at other times they said they felt more 'excited,' 'proud' and 'interested.' Users of a new version of Pantene, one researcher ...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Relaunches Capitalism (Take That, Obama!)
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a highly political nationwide PR campaign intended to relaunch capitalism itself. The Chamber will spend tens of millions of dollars and buy advertising nationwide to persuade the American public that its agenda -- low taxes, open markets, and loose regulation -- are crucial elements of a job recovery. The new television spots, previewed for staff and press at the launch event Wednesday, celebrate small American entrepreneurs and argue that government intervention will not spur permanent job growth. The Chamber says the intensified lobbying effort ...
McCain Ad Controversy?
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. John McCain is set to release his the first television ad of the general election campaign on Monday. The ad, titled "624787," will air statewide in New Mexico, neighbor to McCain's home state of Arizona and which President Bush carried by a small margin in 2004.Now the Washington Post reports that the ad's last line is causing an online controversy. Some commentators find it to be an indirect shot at Sen. Barack Obama.The script of the ad follows. ...
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