1. Kiss My Black Ads. shout-out to a cool website/blog which is deconstructing criticizing advertising imagery around the DeBois’s 
fault line of the last century (and maybe this one) race…. AND functioning as an advertisement for their own graphic design advertising services that will get it right… so it’s simultaneously inside and outside the industry… interesting game they are playing.
2. This Commercial Sucks. A bit more straightforward title, and a provocative take-down of the State Farm ‘bring me a fantasy girlfriend immediately’ ad, where the magic of insurance provides hot girls. The black girl is an MTV vixen, the white girl is studying… hmmmm…… coincidence? This Commercial Sucks thinks not. You can read the whole post here.
3. Ads of the World Overwhelming inclusive great source for us of world advertising. Still pondering a South African cell phone ad that blew me away, but in a very complicated and confusing way… will post on it later… meanwhile here’s a tv ad chosen at random from them, it’s from Japan and called Adizero vs. MiniSkirt (hello, weird east/west male/female power dynamic… calling Gloria Steinem… anyone?):
Can someone more web savvy than me do the mutual referral blog respect blogroll thing, and link us together? (And please post on what you think of these provocative ads..would love to hear some reactions from folks from other backgrounds than me.) –by Bill Lattanzi
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