I’ll plan to update these regularly, but for now, here are just a few of the comments that have come across my desk at the AAAFFF since taking over the ED position:
“I have worked for the past 4 years (since I graduated from a very prestigious culinary school) doing R&D for a food manufacturer . [...]
I know I said that posting would be sparse if at all while I was doing my residency at AS220 but, you know, this picture from a park in Barcelona came across my virtual desk courtesy the brilliant Matt Malooly in Chicago and I had to share its deeply conflictual messages with you. As [...]
Hey! I’m doin’ some stuff!
Friday April 25, 6 pm: Wexner Center, 15th and High St., Columbus OH
Unmarketable reading and 2008 AAAFFFA application drive (see reviews below)
Friday April 25, 8 pm: Sporeprint Infoshop, 172 E 5th Avenue, Columbus, OH
Unmarketable slide talk featuring Pamela Anderson (see reviews below)
Sunday April 27, 7 pm: New World Resource Center, 1300 [...]
Throughout the media circus that is our election season, few have thought to query: but what do the Dutch think? Luckily, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Jonas Staal have been in residence at InCUBATE here in Chicago working steadily on The Barack Obama Project. Their work hones in on the marketing of racial identity [...]
Introducing the newest and latest Anti-Advertising Agency project from Steve Lambert and Anne Elizabeth Moore.
Let’s face it: everyone hates advertising. Be honest! Even you, Mr. or Ms. Man in the Grey Flannel Suit: when you go on vacation you prefer a remote locale, far away from the hustle and bustle of billboards, commercial radio, and [...]
It’s my birthday today, so of course I’m off to the amazing Polish salt caves of northern Chicago with my friend Liz, and I’m therefore gonna forgo the whole critical engagement with the ad industry thing and just tell you a story.
So a couple days ago, I was riding the train, when a super cute [...]
An exclusive branded vacation/soiree intended for some mommy bloggers—but not others—succeeded this week in raising some questions about transparency, PR, and free shit. Not, surely, the kind of buzz the fancy party was intended to start.
The party was thrown by market giant Johnson & Johnson. The location was DisneyLand, owned by the Disney Company, long [...]
Recently back from Cambodia, welcome back to the AAA, Anne Elizabeth Moore!
The great Facebook Ad Debate of November 2007 centered entirely on whether it would work—meaning, would people who did not buy certain products before alter their spending patterns now?—and whether or not it would change advertising forever—meaning, are online social advertising networks [...]
November 28, 2007 – 1:06 pm
An AdAge story from earlier this week reports on charges of hypocrisy leveled against Unilever for two separate ad campaigns for two distinct products in its portfolio: Axe, a men’s perfume that is ascribed all sorts of woman-controlling properties in ads, most of which involve her removing clothing in the wearer’s presence, and Dove, [...]
November 26, 2007 – 8:38 pm
If you’ve been out to a show, club, bar—or hell, just outside your house lately—and you live in an urban area and are a certain kind of person (say, tattoo-having, or pierced)—you’ve likely been offered the exciting opportunity to receive, free of charge, a few boxes of Camel cigarettes. By some funny-colored-hair dude. Just for [...]
October 24, 2007 – 8:05 pm
Introducing guest contributor Anne Elizabeth Moore. Anne is the most qualified person to ever write anything for the AAA because she is an actual writer who has written for magazines that I have heard of - and subscribed to - like Punk Planet, Stay Free!, Bitch, The Onion, and The Progressive. And she wrote [...]