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Endorsionists

Photo post finally up at If it has a name know it. I would have loved to build up a portfolio of examples of Indian advertising, which is simultaneously more primitive and more advanced than anywhere else. The wit, the sex, the ubiquitous dead-eyed celebrity endorsionists, the absolute clarity of impulse; it all walks the [...]

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A place you’ll probably never go

Who’da thunk it? The Obama election has borne unexpected fruit: the rebirth of the ironic commercial. Could this have run three months ago? To a public whose appetite was not yet salted by bass tones of wry, knowing polity? A public not yet used to having its base impulses gently ribbed then warmly embraced, Scranton-style? [...]

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