For
the past several months, we've been reporting on the advertising
industry's desperate descent into nudity-focused marketing campaigns.
Normally, we would applaud any stripping away of censorship, but
marketing agencies have always pissed us off by cynically co-opting all
up-and-coming movements, milking them, and so oversaturating the
mainstream with their ideas that even outsiders want nothing to do with
what they once loved. (Case in point, graffiti-- once Madison Avenue
realized hip kids "dug" that fresh style, everything in the 1980s had
that awful, fake "tagged" look. Now we want to vomit anytime anyone
mentions "taggers.")
Luckily, in Austria, people have a healthier
attitude toward the nude form. Of course, that won't stop advertisers
from having an event specifically geared toward nudity in hopes more
people will pay attention...
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