Every day must be 4/20 at JWT Delhi #FdAdFriday

We were looking at these in a creative meeting today, and a designer colleague said "they look like Dali". I thought she said "they look like Delhi" and I was impressed that she was so well-versed in some of the odder movements in international ad markets.

These are supposedly anti-drinking-and-driving ads. To me, they look more like anti-doing-two-bags-of-grass-seventy-five-pellets-of-mescaline-five-sheets-of-high-powered-blotter-acid-a salt-shaker-half-full-of-cocaine-and-a-whole-galaxy-of-multi-coloured-uppers-downers-screamers-laughers-and-also-a-quart-of-tequila-a-quart-of-rum-a-case-of-Ballantine-ale-a-pint-of-raw-ether-and-two-dozen-amyls-and-driving ads.

Via Ads of the World

Woman seeks metal babydaddy on Craigslist #FdAdFriday

This is either pathetic or hilarious. Personally, I think it's fake. But it's Friday, so your mileage may vary.


FUSE reports that this post (since flagged for removal) recently appeared on Chicago Craigslist:

Did we hook up at the Megadeth/Motorhead concert? - w4m - 28 (Aragon Ballroom)
Me: Blue hair, silver tube top, fishnets, Knee high black biker boots.You: Red mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings.
I was grinding on you in the pit, then we went to the bathroom, and got f***ed up. You had a nice c**k and I was wasted so I let [you] raw dog it in the stall. You were really good and you had to gag me so I would make too much noise. 
Anyway I'm pregnant. It's yours. contact me if you want to be part of your child's life.
c9kpp-2948959310@pers.craigslist.org

FUSE does not disclose whether the words "fucked" and "cock" were censored in the original post, or if they wussed out.

Anyway, c9kpp-2948959310@pers.craigslist.org, if you are in fact real I wish you and your metal baby all the best whether red mohawk boy re-enters the picture or not.

Coke's latest ad tactic too dirty for New Orleans #FdAdFriday

Adland put me on to a New Orleans blog called NOLAFemmes, in which Coca-Cola is accused of defacing the city's Historic French Quarter and Faubourg Tremé with illegally stencilled road ads.

Blogger Lunanola writes:

"It is my opinion that the City of New Orleans is being pimped out promoted at an unprecedented level (to a degree that gives rise to what could be described as “neighborhood fatigue”). Such heavy promotion rarely occurs without unintended consequences: for example, illegal, ugly, and damaging guerrilla marketing campaigns. This kind of defacement is unconscionable and must be addressed immediately...  

Stated simply, the most significant difference between historic beauty and hazardous decay is cumulative, uninterrupted neglect. The continued degradation of the historic heart of New Orleans cannot remain unaddressed, particularly if one considers that our amazing city will be in an ever-increasing spotlight while hosting the 2013 Super Bowl and celebrating its 300th Anniversary in 2018."

I like the comment by Adland's kidsleepy better:

"It doesn't take much effort to realize why the woman would be upset. But I'll just go ahead and add more reasons to the list. Like: the lines suck. There is no idea here. And the advertising is a complete wank fest. 

If law-breaking is involved don't you think it would be worth the effort to, oh, I don't know, do something creative and smart and even conceptually relevant to the media 'buy?'"

I would just add that they should leave the outlaw marketing to real activists, and go back to exploiting polar bears and Santa Claus.

Selling water heaters with senior citizen sexy time #FdAdFriday

I actually don't have a problem with senior tub sex. I hope I get lots of it when I'm that age. But I saw this ad at the bottom of 24H's front page while waiting in line for shawarma, and remarked to myself that I've never see water heaters sold with stock photos of elder sex before.

Here it is from the digital edition:

I think the designer was so distracted by the thought of the grandparents getting it on, he or she forgot all the rules of typography. Oh well. Viva Viagra.

F'd Ad Fridays: Handguns For The Cure™

As if Susan G. Komen for the Cure didn't have enough problems this week, progressive politics and women's health bloggers in the United States are passing around this purported example of pink cobranding gone out of control.

"Discount Gun Sales is proud to team up with the Susan B. Koman Foundation to offer the Walther P-22 Hope Edition in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A portion of each P-22 Hope Edition will be donated to the Seattle Branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. 

The P-22 Hope Edition has an exclusive DuraCoat Pink slide in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Utilizing the same reliable controls and firing mechanism that has made the Walther P-22 America’s top selling handgun, the Hope Edition will be a limited production pistol offered exclusively through Discount Gun Sales."

 Thanks to Noah for the tip!