Here’s to a new year full of precisely what you want … Happy 2011!
Ah, yes… Happy New Year!
>With so many distractions, completely lost track of the time… even though it’s right there on the wrist. And there. And there!
Oh, you didn’t notice the watches?
Here’s to a 2010 filled with pleasurable pursuits and diversions… Happy New Year!
>Instant replay?
No…make that “play and instant replay.”
Another blast from the past, the ad–depicting only “one of thousands of ways to get it on”–promised anyone buying an AKAI video system would be invited to a video taping session with a Penthouse Pet of the Month, such as December 1971’s Lynn Parlington, as featured here. Anyone get an offer like that from Sony?
(Full version at Vintage Ads, snagged via joebehrsandiego)
>Hippity, hoppity!
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Enjoy the day, however–and with whomever–you best see fit!
>Sizzle sells! (Maybe.)
>Mazel tov to one of our favorite CineKinksters, Lolita Wolf, for her prize-winning suggestion in Violet Blue‘s recent competition to determine the best sex-related ad campaign. Lolita’s entry, last year’s “Dominate Winter” interactive campaign for the Cooper Mini, which featured a cat-suit clad dominatrix encouraging the user to put the car through its paces.
Violet’s criteria for the competition were pretty inclusive – by “sex-related I mean just downright sexy and hot, or incredibly clever, controversial, or just plain fun” – and a slew of tasty examples can be found in both the comments to that post and in her follow-up announcing the winners. (Both of which we’ve bookmarked and will be pillaging far into the future.)
And this week, Violet moves on to the question of whether sex can actually sell a product, bringing in AdRant‘s Scott Hall to ruminate with her on how much of it’s a help and how much of it is just hype and sizzle.
Well, we’re not sure how many Aspvik units it helped move. And we’re way late for Violet’s deadline. But for our money, our all-time favorite sex-related – and sex-positive! – ad continues to be Ikea’s Neighbors.
Scratch that. We totally want an Aspvik, now!
>Bring it!
>There are definitely a few more significant issues we might ponder. The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was struck down again, as an appeals court […read more…]
>And while we’re at it…
>As long as we’re so busy avoiding resolutions, here’s still another, an old favorite. And our best wishes for a splendid 2008, one full of […read more…]
>Unresolved…
>If we actually believed in making resolutions, we’d likely resolve to make more posts that didn’t involve just snagging a video from somebody else’s blog, […read more…]
>Now, that’s what we call a friend
>We’re only into day #2 of the New York Leather Weekend + NYC Poly Pride mash-up – with a near week of events to go […read more…]