9/10/09 5:07 pm
Maddy says:
Arrg what the heck is this, I’m stumped, I’ve seen a few other places too
9/10/09 5:25 pm
cara says:
I saw it as an ad on NME yesterday, and it just linked to the same place, ithinkuracontra.com.
9/10/09 6:07 pm
ivan says:
yeah…. saw this on p4k… no idea what it is. suspect it’s some sort of new viral campaign, ARG.. or data mining? the page source doesn’t reveal anything interesting, either.
9/10/09 6:12 pm
Helio Screed says:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: ITHINKURACONTRA.COM
Created on: 31-Jul-09
Expires on: 31-Jul-11
Last Updated on: 31-Jul-09
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
9/10/09 6:55 pm
dean wermer says:
the whole “what is this mysterious thing” ad campaign has been overused and I find it boring. but in terms of MBV, even if you are getting some significant ad dollars for this (and I love this site and hope you profit from it), i still find it rather annoying that it is not identified as an advert.
9/10/09 7:25 pm
Ryan Catbird says:
$0
Matthew has an ad over on Fluxblog, though.
9/10/09 7:38 pm
dean wermer says:
oh, ok, like emily litella, nevermind (though I do hope you guys can monetize this site, or that it is at least driving traffic to your constituent sites that can then be monetized)
9/10/09 7:51 pm
flexo says:
I heard it was all an elaborate plan to hypnotize you to buying ralph lauren polo shirts
9/10/09 7:58 pm
Ryan Catbird says:
Thanks Dean… “monetization” certainly doesn’t trump “good/helpful/enjoyable content” around these parts.
also, Flexo, I wondered why I was feeling the urge to go out and buy a peach shirt, madras shorts and a pair of topsiders– that explains it!
9/13/09 7:35 pm
Moi says:
Obviously an ad campaign for Ralph Lauren.
I was walking around Milan via Google street view earlier and came across some cool paste up ads. I think the blurred out faces are an interesting comment on privacy rights.
“Here is the challenge of media democracy: to change the way information flows, the way we interact with the mass media, the way meaning is produced in our society. This DVD – a collection of television spots and video clips produced over the years by regular culture jammers – is proof that anyone can seize the media reins and begin producing real meaning.”
A compilation video from Adbusters contributors. Presented as montage.
Viral / HD-TV spot for the launch of Audi TT in Australia. The TT contour is revealed only by the streamlines, a minimal abstraction of car laboratory scientific imaging. We created a software-based realtime wind tunnel to generate the HD video, an interactive wind-tunnel is currently in development. Concept and Art Direction by Matt Pyke, programming by Karsten Schmidt. Commissioned by The One Centre.
An exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, “Forty Years of Ads on TV,” celebrates commercials made in France since the late 1960s. At left is a film still, the first in a sequence of five, from a 1968 campaign for Boursin cheese directed by the actor Jacques Duby.
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968
The second of five stills in the Boursin cheese commercial. The Times’s Michael Kimmelman writes: French commercials speak to French culture no less than French literature or music does. Long on sensuality, style and poetry, they are notably lean on facts and nearly allergic to the rough-and-tumble of commerce.
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968
The third of five stills in the Boursin cheese commercial. Hard-sell tactics, standard in America, just don’t wash in France.
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968
The fourth of five stills in the Boursin cheese commercial. “To us money implies corruption, and moreover, because we consider ourselves the inventors of freedom, never mind if that’s not true, we still consider advertising as a kind of manipulation,” explained Jacques Séguéla of Havas, the country’s second-biggest advertising agency.
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968
The fifth of five stills in the Boursin cheese commercial. “This explains why television commercials started so late here — essentially because leftist opposition saw ads as corrupting the soul,” Mr. Séguéla said.
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968
The first of four consecutive film stills from an ad for Dim lingerie directed by William Klein in 1971. The Lalo Schiffrin theme music that accompanies Dim’s ads has become embedded in the French psyche, an equivalent of America’s “plop, plop, fizz, fizz.”
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1971
The second of four stills in the Dim lingerie commercial. France did take a long time before it broadcast commercials on television, prohibiting private advertising years after.
Photo: Agence Publicis, 1971
The third of four stills in the Dim lingerie commercial. Years after the United States, Britain, Italy and other countries were making a new art form out of 30-second promotions for detergents and toothpastes, France still prohibited private advertising.
Classified in China under the genre of Political Pop, Wang Guangyi’s paintings combine the ideological power of communist propaganda with the seductive allure of advertising. Juxtaposing revolutionary images with consumer logos, Wang’s canvases provocate with their duplicitous message, highlighting the conflict between China’s political past and commercialised present. Stylistically merging the government enforced aesthetic of agitprop with the kitsch sensibility of American pop, Guangyi’s work adopts the cold-war language of the 60s to ironically examine the contemporary polemics of globalisation.
Through his critique, Guangyi’s paintings weave intricate narratives, implicating the role of the artist as an active participant (both as subjugator and subservient) in economic and social policy. Guangyi treads a very delicate line between moral dictum and capitalist endorsement; the interpretation of his paintings alternates with the subjectivity of context. Amalgamating, confusing, and blurring opposing ideological beliefs, Guangyi’s billboard sized canvases readily sell out national valour, while simultaneously devaluing status symbol luxury for the proletariat cause.
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