Category: Advertising
Follies of the Mad Men #120
[From Life magazine for January 10 1949.]
This hideous Donnie Darko-style image will haunt you forever, and make you swear off beer-drinking at once.
Furries and beer: two things that must never mix.
Another PES Film
Old-time WU-vies will surely recall the stop-motion video of furniture sex by PES. Here's another neat one, shorter and tamer, since it's an actual commissioned ad.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Aug 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Games, Advertising, Stop-motion Animation
Category: Games, Advertising, Stop-motion Animation
Follies of the Mad Men #119
Mad Men, here's a secret: music is the realm of emotion and poetry and piercing observations, of romance and satire, of history and dreams.
So when you create a song that is full of boring statistics about a boring object, you look like an idiot, and so does your product.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Aug 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1960's
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1960's
Follies of the Mad Men #118
It's all fun and games until someone gets their chest burst open.....
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Aug 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Products, Movies, 1970's
Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Products, Movies, 1970's
Follies of the Mad Men #117
Can you imagine Angelina Jolie touting a Kia? No? That's because there is no more glamour in Hollywood or Detroit.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Aug 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, ShowBiz, 1950's, Cars
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, ShowBiz, 1950's, Cars
Follies of the Mad Men #116
Airplanes, what airplanes? There were airplanes in this ad?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Jul 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Travel, Transportation, Russia
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Travel, Transportation, Russia
Follies of the Mad Men #115
Okay, if you want to claim that your shaving cream will make the Average Joe resemble a movie star, wouldn't you pick Errol Flynn, say, or even Humphrey Bogart, rather than Frankenstein's monster?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Jul 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Movies, 1940's, Facial Hair, Fictional Monsters
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Movies, 1940's, Facial Hair, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Mad Men #114
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Jul 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Furries, LGBT, Europe
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Furries, LGBT, Europe
Follies of the Mad Men #113
Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1970's, Sex
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1970's, Sex
Follies of the Mad Men #112
Tires? What tires? You mean they were trying to sell tires? Never saw them....
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Jun 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, Sex Symbols, Russia
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, Sex Symbols, Russia
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Furries, 1940's, Alcohol