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I made and deleted a comment on the :30 edit of this saying it had me a little uncomfortable because the persecution of people with albinism is a real and terrifying thing in large areas of sub saharan and east Africa, and I wouldn't tell where this was filmed. So here I watch the long edit and that's actually part of the story! Removing the "music has no colour" thought away from race and instead showing albinos who are persecuted, is not a bad idea. Jewell Jeffrey is a Parisian DJ/Model/actor, which is why I reacted to him being somewhere in Africa in the first place.
I know some ad forums that would insist that this would be "branding" and branding is somehow always a good thing even if it does nothing for the bottom line. Because it certainly is branding NYT, it's all text no images, like the grey lady front page used to be.
Oy, you really broke this ad down. I wish we could have ads for newspapers like "Don't read" again, but to be honest all newspapers are very partisan reporters, and non-reporters, of the actual news. It's quite daring for the home of Jayson Blair to go down the "truth" route. It's not just first thought, it's historically ignorant. I have had tremendous respect for the grey lady, as I used to read it when I lived in New York back when the ad posters for the New York Post said "I only watch PBS"...
The Guardian points of view is my favourite newspaper ad of all time. Were newspapers or advertising better back then?
Tragically I just heard that our "anti-bot" comment protector is apparently preventing actual humans from making comments today - and people are trying to comment on this post in particular. I'm turning the anti-bot off for now, so hopefully humans can come play.
Having said that I need to share my irrational hatred (also known as Art Director hives) for the following; The black man bites his bottom lip after delivering his line. Probably to prevent himself from bursting out laughing. The awful piano. The black woman who opens the ad says "keeping transgender people from using bathroom they identify with" - I did not known "transgender" meant that you identified with a bathroom!
The perky girl in the stall who says "and we can take care of ourselves" because sex segregated spaces are apparently insulting for the go-getting perky millennial gal, and now that she has her first job, checkbook and car, she gets to call the shots for everybody. That awful piano. The faulty logic that money would be spent keeping kids out of bathrooms, delivered by the stern "No running in the halls" lady. Did I mention the awful piano?
And wtf is it about Oscar nominated directors who can't direct something with an idea, instead they resort to a shitty choddy?
Ouch, the sarcasm.
Yeah, that was a long walk for a ham sandwich. Also, I needed to clean one of my macs last week and it took me all of three minutes to find Gemini which is the one she uses... so meh. And why does she need apps when she has a seemingly endless supply of assistants?
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