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Culture Buzz Billboards are everywhere and are pretty much unavoidable. Sometimes, advertisers like to demonstrate a little creativity: a pun here, a touching sentiment there. I'm not sure if they know what the word “creativity” means.
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Does advertising become art as it decays? For some reason these photos are moving and sad.
According to the story, this Wodka billboard was spotted just off of New York City's Riverside Drive.
Can someone explain this to me, please? (via copyranter.blogspot.com)
This billboard is the talk of the town in Hardin County, Ohio. I for one will never think of my heroin the same way again.
When The Minneapolis Institute of Arts learned that their billboard featuring a nude painting by Titian had been vandalized, they thought it was pretty hilarious. (Via Neatorama.)
Food Buzz In London, Virgin Media launched a billboard advertising their broadband service that was made entirely out of cheese! 110 kg of local cheeses to be exact. Yum. (Via.)
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My guess is they don't have many vegetarians in Mooresville, North Carolina.
I think the message is very well intentioned. Not quite sure about the presentation.
Culture Buzz It's probably not a good idea to put a billboard about teenage drinking next to a billboard about Bud Light. Especially if that Bud Light billboard has the slogan: “Always Worth It.”
These billboards are advertising two different kinds of eggs. Also, gross. And OMG, billboard juxtaposition. I wish there were a law that two billboards posted next to each other had to have a really high irony factor. It would make driving on the interstate way more intense.
Business Buzz In an advertising move that recalls classics like “The World’s Largest Pineapple,” a McDonald’s in Chicago has created a giant moving egg billboard. The egg cracks open between 6 and 10:30 a.m., the hours when eggs are available at McDonald’s, and spends the rest of the day taunting passers-by who desired nothing more than a simple Egg McMuffin.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
