Vintage New York Subway Ads II
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 1/08/2011 06:51:00 AM.
Labels: Ads, New York, photography, Underground transportation, VINTAGE
Vintage New York Subway Ads
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 1/07/2011 06:11:00 AM.
Problems in the Tub?
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 5/28/2009 09:29:00 PM.
Labels: Ads, Underground transportation
The French way of Advertising Laundry Detergent?
3 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 5/02/2009 11:00:00 PM.
French ads for laundry detergent have always fascinated me. Check out this weird selection:
Ok this first one is french humor. The detergent is called "le chat", and at the end the weird guy screams the name of a competitor detergent.
The next one is a real ad in which french language is massacred in order to fit in with the apes who play in it. You may see it as a tad racist nowadays.
...racist indeed if you compare to this 1987 ad of the same brand, conceived for the african market.
Ok this first one is french humor. The detergent is called "le chat", and at the end the weird guy screams the name of a competitor detergent.
The next one is a real ad in which french language is massacred in order to fit in with the apes who play in it. You may see it as a tad racist nowadays.
...racist indeed if you compare to this 1987 ad of the same brand, conceived for the african market.
Labels: Ads, Talking Pictures, things that can happen if you stare directly into the sun, videos
Vintage Soap Remake
4 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 4/09/2009 09:13:00 PM.
They renovated a building on Grands Boulevards, and they renovated the vintage soap ad from 1919 that was on its side facade at the same moment. Now it doesn't look vintage or anything anymore. Does it still have any historic value?
The Cadum baby, somewhat weird spokesperson for the Cadum Soap which was produced at the manufacturies of Courbevoie. According to the museum of advertisement, the ads with the baby were covering numerous walls of Paris around 1919. Around 1940 the Cadum baby loses its place and gets replaced by a pretty young girl. So long baby!
Labels: Ads, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), VINTAGE
How to prepare your noodles in the UK
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 11/21/2008 09:22:00 PM.
Labels: Ads, commercial time, Talking Pictures
Karl Kopied for Kar Kommercial
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 7/25/2008 02:40:00 PM.
Kids get your guns out!
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 5/12/2008 06:01:00 PM.
Good old days, when children were still innocent little angels...
Labels: Ads, Movies and worse, Talking Pictures
The anti-HIV AIDS campaign you won*t see in France!
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 1/07/2008 01:52:00 AM.
The ad in question
A freshly prepared ad campaign against HIV-AIDS got censored by the French Advertisement Verification Office, because it might disturb certain people in France.
The ad in question depicts two naked men on a bed kissing, and a sentence saying "every day in France, four homosexuals discover they're HIV-positive".
Act Up-Paris already has criticised this act of homophobia.
In a country where you see even more female nudity on any cheap perfume ad campaign, or posters of straight couples in morally questionable positions on street billboards, would it really come to a shocking popular uprise if this particular ad was shown publicly?
If there was a straight couple on that ad, no one would even give shit about it.
Ridiculous!
Labels: Ads, Nonsensical rambling, Politics, Sarkozyland
Wagner meets Cirque du Soleil?
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 1/05/2008 12:07:00 AM.
I love car commercials!
Especially this Mercedes spot, with that special cirque-du-soleil touch and a certain tendency to the wagnerian drama.
Especially this Mercedes spot, with that special cirque-du-soleil touch and a certain tendency to the wagnerian drama.
Labels: Ads, and now for something completely different, design, Talking Pictures
CHANEL * COCO MADEMOISELLE
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 12/07/2007 12:24:00 AM.
Coco Mademoiselle by director Joe Wright with Keira Knightly
A big budget commercial with an impressive array of details once again
the making of: getting inspiration in Coco Chanel*s private appartments at the Chanel House
A big budget commercial with an impressive array of details once again
the making of: getting inspiration in Coco Chanel*s private appartments at the Chanel House
LONDONTASTIC
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 12/04/2007 11:29:00 PM.
THE BLING BLING RIGHT WING
2 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 8/14/2007 03:35:00 PM.
Politics is my CHANEL
Sex and Sarkozy? How...eecky!Labels: Ads, drunk politicians, Politics, Sarkozyland
I need some HAIRSPRAY soon!
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 8/09/2007 04:56:00 PM.
Fisherman*s Friend
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, July 27, 2007 at 7/27/2007 03:38:00 PM.
OMG I just love this song! I found it on my old music files collection, since my new laptop doesnt have all the music installed yet.
If you were wondering, its "Malambo No1" by Yma Sumac, a grand lady of weirdness!
Labels: Ads, Music, Talking Pictures
Louvre, Arts Décoratifs, Tuileries...Fun!
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 6/28/2007 10:52:00 PM.
On my way down to the Louvre to check if my damn contemporary art results aren't on display yet (as usual, they weren't...) I passed the empty terrace of the newly opened restaurant of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Doesn't seem to attract much outdoor customers yet; quite unbelievable for a centrally located outdoor spot with dramatic views of the Louvre and Eiffel Tower
The ceiling painting (assembly of the gods) in the Room of the Emperors
The still closed down roman courtyard, used as storage room for antiques evacuated from their regular storage spaces, in fear for a possible flooding predicted around 2010 (the last devastating flooding took place in 1910 and left half of Paris flooded)
Let me out!
The ass of the Venus of Milo, a not-so-sought after picture spot
The Venus of Milo seems to enjoy travelling: these last months she's been moved around a couple of times already, you never know where you may find her next. She was actually kept in the room on the picture below, the 'Room of the seven chimneys', formerly used to display the scarce collection of paintings from the English school (nearly nonexistent) which is now completely empty, except for some lost paintings and a ton of disoriented tourists, seemingly seeking the Venus (I wonder if they reprinted the new location on the maps, but knowing the french efficiency... )
The back of the Louvre, with its wonderful colonnade, still closed to the public. I hope they will open it again soon
Tourists at the pyramid strutting their stuff
Putties on the roof strutting their stuff
I love taking pictures of people watching paintings
the Rembrandt room
It's just like watching TV... 'Wow, I want one of those plasma screens!'
Inside the Napoleon III rooms
Escalier Lefuel, one of my favorite staircases, originally built to give access to the never completed Imperial Library
Crates packed and ready to return to their Greek museums after a Praxiteles exhibition
Other day, other museum: the Arts Décoratifs Museum, with an exhibition of old ads
Nice hands, Jesus!
Fooling around in the elevator
He could sit on it, but it could hurt...
Tuileries
Remember the movie shooting from last week? guess what, they're still shooting at the very same spot...
And we are getting ready for a little fun fair: the Ferris Wheel is already turning... without any gondolas on it. Will people just have to "hang on" there?
pre-weeeeeeeeeeee!
Oh, poor chair! Broke a leg! Dead! Lost its soul! Pray!
Preparing the tribune on Place de la Concorde; for the 14th July celebrations already?
Tourists
Palais Royal getting ready for the Fete de la Musique Cocktail Party
Mmmmmmh, macaroons!!! gaaaaaaaaahhhh...
Labels: Ads, Architecture shot, Art, gardens, painting, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
