Your Moment of Zen
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I had blood drawn yesterday at the doctor. I'm usually a total wuss when it comes to needles. However, the nurse told me to just close my eyes and take a deep breath. I didn't feel a thing. I didn't even know she had done anything when she said, "All done." I wish every nurse what that good.
One more day of Arlo MoZ...
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Today's MoZ topic
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An inherently evil industry?
Or the pinnacle of art?
*** ADVERTISING ***
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Because of scheduling issues, I was forced to take my Introduction to Advertising Design class on-line. It was horrible. This ad caused the most trouble. I was told it was offensive and inappropriate by everyone in the class, including the teacher. For the record, NO ONE, not even my own mother, was offended by this ad other than the students and teacher in the class.
http://www.arlodesign.com/Magazine_Nailed.jpg
1940s and 1950s Cigarette Advertising
http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
Stefan Sagmeister, my favorite commercial artist, will do just about anything for self-promotion
http://www.sagmeister.com/work5.html (questionable for work)
http://www.sagmeister.com/work7.html
Japanified movie posters*
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2806
The Permanent Collection of Impermanent Art
http://www.lileks.com/institute/perm/index.html
Trouble writing a headline for Enron's comeback campaign?
http://www.adbusters.org/spoofads/misc/ethiceze/
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MONDAY: Sean's back! Hi, Sean!
6 Comments:
Arlo, amazingly enough you have managed to create an ad that is ONLY offensive to younger women (and anyone who is trying to impress a younger woman). For an older woman your ad would be a compliment, for a man a compliment, but for a younger woman who may be insecure in her sexuality it would be offensive.
Its simple really.
You're right, Dr. Smith. The ad would be more effective if the woman in the picture was an overweight virgin woman in her early 40s with bad skin and an oversized sweatshirt screenprinted with a Lhasa Apso.
Dr. Smith is a dipshit. As the formerly resident person who gets offended, I can say that the good doctor is, just like Arlo's classmates, an example of why we're so fucked.
Arlo's ad was good precisely because it subverts the dominant paradigm. Doctor Dip insinuates that it might be offensive to younger women because it infers that they're sluts or (gasp) refers to sexuality at all. I say Arlo's ad is fanfuckingtastic because it includes absolutely no sense of shame and doesn't pass any kind of judgment on the girl in question. It takes what you expect, turns it on its head, and makes you laugh at your own silly, sexist expectations.
The classmates were offended not because it's about banging but because it's about pride. How offensive for a woman to nail three soldiers. How offensive for her to be proud of it and thank cheerwine for giving her the trailer park power to do it. If Arlo's ad had more closely resembled a coors commercial, why that, that would have been downright inspiring. Ah, twins.
Let me be the first to say; welcome back, Temple! Just the authentic progressive firebrand that is needed to shake things up around here!
I want to invoke the Doctrine of Preemption right now because I know there are evildoers and crybabies out there moaning about the prospect of Temple's return and, with it, her tell-it-like-it-is attitude, her artless fuming, her namecalling, her vulgarity, her confusion over noun-verb agreement, her take-no-prisoners oration, her disregard for convention and conventional senctence structures, her reliance on prosaicism and her absence of wit. You all think you're sooooooo smart, don't you? Well, I don't want to hear it. Go ahead, call me a lumbering scold. See if I care.
Temple, you have your admirers here. Of course, I don't have to tell you that every one of them is a sleepwalking godzilla of sexism, but only because they fail to comprehend that a discerning judgement is forged only in the fires of suffering and worldy experiece. Do they think one can pluck even a leaf from the laurel of art without giving their lives in return? I should also like to emphasize that while there may be no dignity in being personally repellent, disgusting, loathsome, irritating and idiotic, there may be no shame in it either. Though I expect your cunning intellect has already apprehended as much. I am forever indulging my pride. Chapeaux!
Dr. Smith was so totally gay by the by the second season of Lost in Space that you had to wonder about his relationship with the robot and young Will Robinson. Not that gay men are more likely to be pedos...please don't take me wrong! But Dr. Smith must have been so uptight about his own sexuality that he would have found that Cheer wine ad offensive. That's why it was always funny when he got punked every episode. My point?
Don't be a Dr. Smith - DRINK CHEER WINE! and tell it like it is honey.
-stiggy
Whenever I hear the phrase "dominant paradigm", the sound of a meaty slap resonates in my skull; whenever I hear the phrase "sleepwalking godzilla of sexism", I get a pudgy.
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