Links for 2006-10-15
- There's a story doing the rounds of del.icio.us popular at the moment: "Lost city 'could rewrite history'" It's about a city that was purported to have been discovered in the Gulf of Cambay in 2001/2002 that could predate other ancient archaeological sites by thousands of years. Unfortunately, it could very well be bunk, according to other articles I've found.
- Wikipedia's article on the supposed ruins in the Gulf of Cambay This page and the discussion page have the most references that are sceptical of the Gulf of Cambay city, although the article contains enough weasel words to be only semi-convincing.
- Bloody Dove 'Campaign for Real Beauty' had to go and produce this quite good video just to make me all conflicted This whole Dove campaign seems so fake and it's really profoundly aggravating, but this video is pretty clever and pretty smart - although I'm having trouble knowing whether I buy it. Seems to me most people compare themselves with hot friends and the young people rather than to billboards and adverts.
Comments
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"Seems to me most people compare themselves with hot friends and the young people rather than to billboards and adverts."
If we compared ourselves to real people, then the photoshopping wouldn't be necessary, and neither would make up, because we'd all be... well... accepting of flaws. And the billboards would reflect that.
Dove are very clever though, as we all know they don't care about "real beauty", they care about selling the product via tapping into a disenfranchised audience (much like the BNP). More to that effect, they sell products that enhance the way we look to the point where we're more socially acceptable. Despite that, I like the campaign.
→ Posted by: Natali at October 15, 2006 10:05 PM
Hmm, campaignforrealbeauty.com, brought to us by Dove, a brand owned by Unilever, the people who also own
* Lynx (Axe)
* Elizabeth Arden
* Calvin Klein
and other image-centric brands.
I guess they have to sell to the people that are turned off by the above brands but the hypocracy is interesting...
→ Posted by: Aehso at October 16, 2006 1:42 PM