Yall. Don’t u h8 when u think something is ‘beautiful’, then u find out that it it being used 2 sell u something? That’s what happened 2 me when I saw this picture.
Initially, I thought that it was a beautiful picture that was about ‘ending racism’, celebrating 2 beautiful people coming together as 1 [via interracial couple]. But then I found out that it is an advertisement for a tennis shoe/ strip club / slice of white ass. Sad that the tennis shoe isn’t featured in the picture.
‘ugh’. Think that sometimes I assume that everything Kanye West makes is ‘beautiful art’ and don’t realize that he is actually just ‘trying to make money’, or what rappers call ‘hustling.’
Feel manipulated. It’s kinda like when I see a beautiful logo that I would consider getting as a tattoo, but then I realize that it is part of a global brand. Thought I was gonna get this tattoo, but then I realized it belonged to CHILI’s.
(Fortunately, I found out that it is a kick ass restaurant.)
In my digital art class, I actually made a symbol that looked like the ‘Nike Swoosh’ without even ever seeing it. I thought it was beautiful, but then my classmates accused me of ‘ripping off Nike’ and wondering ‘how could u have never seen the Nike logo b4?’
Feel dumb when art = advertising, and I appreciate it too much when it I thought I was just admiring something beautiful.
But I did like the recent Am Appy custom Woody Allen campaign. Feel like it really went viral.
wish websites had ‘billboards.’ Think ‘billboards’ might be the most authentic artistic medium.
Felt sad when I read that famous street graffiti artist Banksy was actually hired by a Coalition of the Eastern world to spread anti-American messages [via internet viral campaign].
Does n e 1 know where I can get an advertising/marketing internship?
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
@mexico, :(
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@mexico, CRLS you think those are bad, check at this ad campaign Vespa is running in Canadian cities
http://spacingmontreal.ca/2008/05/04/antlerheads-in-montreal/
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, here too
http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/04/30/vespa-ads-not-cool/
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SECOND
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banksy and kanye = wack wack wack
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//////////Reply by melle mel
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
@derryck, really? damn. kanye might be “wack” but banksy is fairly subversive. or is that the point – that subversiveness is really not hip?
carles, who did you vote for?
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wow why r u guys doing this. nobdoy wants 2 read that shit
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//////////Reply by Vexster
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
@derryck,
Sounds like Nobdoy needs to read a little bit more actually. And perhaps also consider taking a typing class.
R.I.P. Nobdoy [via miss u (-_-)]
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This video made me want to buy bouncy balls and tv’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb8P7dfjVw
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//////////Reply by kid
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:40 am
@Tony Trov,
that was beautiful
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want to go into advertising
seems like ‘the new art’
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even tho DOLK is more superficially trivial/sillie than Banksy, i feel like he is more meaningful overall, cause he realizes what he does doesnt really matter–and thats what makes him matter more. Just like the members of my fav band, the MCRbros.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Dolk_-_3_(writer).jpg
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//////////Reply by aw,fukk
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
sorri bout link that doesnt work:
http://tinyurl.com/cdcv4l
dont h8, yall.
Here are some things that depress me just as much as broken links:
mitochondrial disorders
mount vesuvius
poor motor skills
islamic militants
standing water
jaundice
perjury
children decapitated by roller coaster malfunctions
dolphins stranded in new jersey rivers
inuit babies eaten by wolves
failing to notice blatant signs that your date is attracted to you and thus not getting laid
thx for listening. feel like i was at the gym and was trying to lift too much so i cud impress all the yogaGrlz but then the weights fell on my chest and yall just lifted them off me and helped me play it off like i did it on purpose. owe u one hj.
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//////////Reply by H8rbro
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
@aw,fukk, for some reason i feel like following your comments [via twitter like set up except i have to find your comments myself]
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//////////Reply by aw,fukk
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
@H8rbro, thx H8rbro. feel moar like a meme now. i will tri to get u +1 hj [via altSkank i sorta used to fukk/accidentally got preggers [via she said she was on the pill] ]
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where does thomas kinkade fit into all this?
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//////////Reply by kid
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:44 am
@vivi, kitsch
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“Hipsterism,” is more a fear of irrelevance or phoniness than it is an aesthetic one would purposely adopt. It is the shadow that passes over us when we begin to tentatively plan to do something unconventional, the chill that tells us that maybe it would be safer to do nothing rather than become one of them, trying for cool but failing. That is to say, “hipsterism” is the term for that sinking feeling that cool is at stake in any endeavor, and that nothing can be pursued for its own sake anymore. Of course that is not true, but it often feels like it is, and the image of a stereotype arriviste hipster is there to personify that feeling. And the final twist is that once we begin to fear becoming hipsters, begin thinking primarily about the way what we are doing will be perceived by others who somehow can see through us to the roots of our motivations, we become at that very moment hipsters ourselves.
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that picture is not a beautiful message, actually it’s a terrible message about women in society and in romantic relationships. wish you could comment on something important like racism/sexism in advertising instead of how confused you are. i guess this is an art blog tho, before anything else.
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if kanye west was lupe fiasco i would like him more
woody allen makes good movies
i like ‘viral’ ads when they look kinda shitty but not when they try too hard
ur azn friends ads look cool
banksy is ok but too hyped
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think the Chili’s logo is a rip off of Nike’s
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isn’t a piece of art just an advert for the artist?
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kanye’s gf is a lightskinned black chick.
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en español desde mexico
ART vs. ADVERTISING.
arte es todo lo que crea el ente o ser humano.
el arte busca la estetica y la etica, y sirve para avanzar y sanar.
advertising es arte, pero “arte comercial”, o sea para masas “publico que compra”
ejemplo: “philiph morris marlboro reds”
para estos cigarillos hacen “arte-publicidad” pero no es saludable ya que promueve una droga que causa amplias complicaciones a la salud y la muerte cuando hay casos cronicos, es arte publicitario pero no se deberia usar para esto. ya que pago por mi muerte, pero es ATENCIÖN “comercial”.
la publicidad para productos eco-biologicamente viables!
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More big-assed blondies should shave their heads.
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h8 advertising yall. sick of the ‘lies’. just wanna be a hippie / grow pumpkins / listen to mgmt / wear tydy / get stonnned….
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@annie yes it is, not an undergraduate women’s studies course.
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//////////Reply by annie
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
@coolandhip, you can click ‘reply’ under the comment and it will start a thread and keep things easier to follow.
anyway, i think that racism/sexism in advertising is worth discussing even if it’s not ‘an undergrad women’s studies class’ because it affects us all. this is a blog about advertising, art, and the ways they are related and opposite and branding and everything in between. i think that any messages, overt and covert, that art and advertisements perpetuate should have a place here, and i don’t think that carles focuses on things like that enough, and instead writes posts about “alt bewbs” and headbands. he writes about a lot of things that seem superficial but he gives them depth. wish he could do that with more important things sometimes.
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She’s black,stupid.
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this post is post-post-post-ironic. if u r n fact sponsored by chilis/nike/am ap then this belongs in the blog hall of blog fame blog
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//////////Reply by Hipster Griftress
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
@Kitty Tickle, don’t forget Louis Vuitton [via Kanye & Amber Rose].
Feeling pretty hungry now. Think I’ll throw on my Nikes and hit Chili’s!
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“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists” -Bansky
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That girl in the Kanye picture looks like someone from that Tom Cruz movie Minority Report
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not that this isn’t an enlightening philosophical debate but it isn’t an ad
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/04/kanye_wests_shoot_with_naked_a.html
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bravo.
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u kno…. the shoes he’s advertising r the ones he’s wearing right? idiot.
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Hang on.. homegirl that Kanye is “sticking it to” is white… with a booty like that? NO WAY Y’ALL!
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