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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ads’
Endorsionists
Posted in Culture, Media, tagged ads, books, comics, India, photos on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A place you’ll probably never go
Posted in Culture, Media, tagged ads, Culture on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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? [...]




