Advertising, or, Two-Dimensional People

[yakalskovich]

I took some pics of some advertising. For reasons, because I'd mentioned it to people.

First, there is 'Alice', the young woman who graces the ad campaign for the new and very much improved DSL provider that delivers fast and problem-free Internet to our home network.

I am very grateful to her for that. Here she is, in her incarnation that can be found in my colleague Scholli's office:



She's only cardboard, but Scholli of course loves pretty blond chicks even if they're all cardboard. And flashy cars, as you can see from the calendar on the wall. Well, we like him in any case - he's a very helpful and fun colleague. Deserves blond Alice, whom one of the editors brought back from a press conference.

And then there is that one guy on a billboard in the next station who appears somehow very familiar:











Erm, sorry if that's a bit cryptic, by the way...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

She is Alicia Silverstone, but he does not look like Suti.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

No, he doesn't look like Sooty. Not at all. I never claimed that.

*is still cryptic*

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

*is confused*

[yakalskovich]

*did not mean to confuse you*

I'm pretty sure it's the fellow on lochiel's icons. I mean, Abby did get the pics for the icons from the web site of a model agency; one can expect that he gets booked to wear clothes for magazine shoots and ad campaigns.

Good for him, actually; I mean, featuring in a cross-media campaign that runs in all of Germany must be good for the bank account and portfolio of any professionial model.

Nevertheless, it rather amuses me to encounter a Milli!PB on a large poster in the station where I have to get off the train if I want to buy peanut butter.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Right ... I remember now that I spent 6 hours, a whole night on sites trying to find a DG model after seeing it in a com banner. I never asked the com mod and forgot where it was but it is impossible with all the lighting and make up to recognise most of them. What a wast of life time that was.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

I just took my camera with me, as I wanted to take a picture of Alice anyway, and then I took snapshots of the poster with Lochiel's PB on it, too.

Abby had found him at http://www.whynotmodels.com - his name is Anthony Anderson.

And the additional pics at http://www.camelactive.de quite convince me it's the same fellow. Although whoever put that cap on him there should be taken outside and shot by the fashion police.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Not my type. Never ever would chose him.
As I chatted, blue eyes and black hair are so fantastic, I guess I don't like the pics, how they make him look, coz he is probably a dish.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Well, I never thought I'd use that icon again...

I'm sure he looks better in more, erm, relaxed clothes, like in the Camel Active campaign; some of the stuff in his portfolio looks awfully artificial, like a case for the fashion police, or both.

Still, gorgeous. No doubt about it, objectively, not taking any PB technical considerations into account.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Well, I looked at them all now, and I don't think him objectively GORGEOUS. He has both a soft yet stubbly face, and combination makes these two things I don't fancy worse. I don't like manly, but I think if smiling naturally in RL (and shaved) I would prefer him to your icon. Yes, yours. Pah. sigh

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Heh - not mine-the-mun's, AS's. He did lay claim to Lochiel, ages ago.

Ages, really, in MilliChronology.

He smiles on the Camel Active site, and it's not all that pretty a smile; it makes his face slightly hamstery. And I don't think he was ever seen clean-shaven on a photo.

And I find he's gorgeous - pah to yourself!