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Thursday 2 February 2012

Mad Men fall foul of the thought police

Don't you just love New Yorkers?
With the new series of Mad Men just around the corner (well March to be precise) it seems the latest poster campaign has got NYC all hot and bothered.  No it's not Joanie's pneumatically upholstered body which is causing the problem but the image of the falling man.
On the one hand we've got graffiti artists cleverly taking the image and adding a whale to create, lo and behold, a whimsical illustration reminiscent of a children's storybook.
While on the other, we've an online spat amongst the blogging community as to whether the campaign is offensive and a desecration of the memory of 9/11 and the 'falling man' or jumpers from the Twin Towers.
Is the similarity intentional?  Who's exploiting who - the admen cynically using the imagery knowing full well it will create a furore? Or the bloggers creating a something out of nothing spat to up their page views - after all the imagery is only that which has been used on the opening credits since the series began.
Take a look at 'I live in New York' and you decide - I think I know what Don Draper would have done. Oh and sorry about the language - but you know what these New Yorkers are like.  
Posters all over Manhattan
But when reflected in a phone box it does look very suggestive



Certainly getting a reaction
With added whale






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4 comments:

  1. Unknown3 February 2012 at 15:47

    http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2012/02/two-more-entries-in-mad-men-teaser.html

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  2. Charlotte6 February 2012 at 05:56

    The image is only a still taken from the existing opening credits though isn't it? It's never occurred to me before but then i'm not from Manhattan. My point being there's been ample opportunity to complain about it before. I guess the phone box reflection looks a little eerie but i don't imagine it crossed the media planners mind when they booked it.

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  3. Unknown6 February 2012 at 09:54

    Two more entries!

    http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2012/02/two-more-entries-in-mad-men-teaser.html

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  4. Unknown6 February 2012 at 09:55

    And another...

    http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2012/02/and-heres-my-favorite-mad-men-teaser.html

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