A couple more subverts, and advert-related snippets

[avevale_intelligencer]

Maryland cookies. "More important than your child's future. (If you're a woman, that is.)"

Cheese strings. "You will be so infuriated by the nonsensicality of this advert that it will actually be physically painful for you to remember the product's name, but we don't care, we've been paid."

Incidentally, can anyone remember the name of that artist in the sixties who did very detailed silhouettes of people against swirly psychedelic backgrounds? Same sort of vintage as Kay Nielsen, but I don't think it was her.

And is anyone not immediately charmed by the idea of a car you can drive up in, get out of and then pick up like a piece of cloth and take away rolled up under your arm?

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

You may be thinking of Jan Pienkowski, though perhaps not.

Kay Nielsen's artwork comes from the 1910s, really - he just got rediscovered (by Gallery 5) in the 60s. I used to have posters of the illustrations from East of the Sun and West of the Moon on my bedroom walls back then, and now I have the prints from a breaker copy of same framed all over the house. Ah, consistency.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I think you're right.

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the Maryland one once, and that was exactly the reaction I had to it.

I've reached the stage where I 'tune-out' every time the cheese string thing comes on, but had at one point sat there thinking that it obviously wasn't a human or animal, so the easiest solution to the threat to international air travel posed by a glass of milk within processed cheese was a controlled explosion, like any other suspicious package.

I like the idea of the car, but how would you explain to the insurance company that you accidentally left it in the loo/restaurant/cinema and it wasn't there when you went back for it? The one where you can pull off the top layer of your kitchen (and now your bathroom too, I notice) complete with all the grime would be of far more interest to me at the moment

[aunty_marion]

I watch so little live TV, and so little of that on channels with advertising, these days, that I don't think I've seen any of those adverts. Thank goodness.

[batyatoon]

I want that car.

And I haven't seen the Maryland cookies one; do I want to know?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Parent's evening at school. Dad is listening to the teacher, but Mum is distracted by a talking biscuit putting the moves on her. "I saw you checking me out..." and so on. So when the teacher asks her something inaudible (possibly "we're planning to sell Tommy to a white slavery ring and use the money for a new gynmasium, is that all right?") she says yes with her mouth full.

Surprised that one aired more than twice, actually, but it's still being used.

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

The Maryland Cookies ad made me very uncomfortable when I first saw it. And I'm relieved that others don't like it either - so it's not just my issues with my own parents being exacerbated by my hormones being all over the place at the moment.