Traditionally, Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball is held in the UK, but for the first time ever, the comedic fundraising event is coming to New York City on March 4th. The showcase will include Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Russell Brand, who presumably will try and redeem himself for remaking Arthur.
Ooh, you better be on your guard, Nicolas Sarkozy. Vladimir Putin might send you a polonium 210-laced nesting doll after viewing this ad work via Amnesty International France. For some reason, The French and Russians are culturally co-blowjobbing each other this year. Read more »
Resorting to a snitty stuck-up strategy, Amnesty International in New Zealand sez “Ignore us, ignore human rights.” You have to say it in a very whiny voice to get the tone right. From the campaign press note: Read more »
Have you ever been to a runway tent show? I’d rather watch nail polish dry. As the world continues to die violently, it’s high time we started seeing some shows modeled after Tom Sach’s Prada Death Camp. Fashion, like advertising, is all about appropriating other people’s ideas. So, designers, steal these exciting new runway themes from Amnesty International France. Read more »
Renowned pixel art collective eBoy has compiled most of the world’s ills into one dreary piece for Amnesty International’s Poverty is Modern campaign. The detailed renderings of rape, rioting, mass slaughter and torture are revealed as one clicks through the cover-up. A print version of the destitute scene, measuring 47 x 33 inches, is also available for $33, six of which will be donated to support Amnesty International’s human rights advocacy.
Detail of poster by eBoy
Phighting despotism with Phunny Photoshop—it’s a popular tactic by AI. Here, via agency Air in Brussels, they used retouched stock photos in a plea-for-donations campaign. “Amnesty’s flame is in danger worldwide. Defend it.” Look (click gallery) at how cute Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks with his weapon of mass saturation.The Iranian president is a popular target for do-gooder organizations—previously the International Society for Human Rights fake-smeared his face with birthday cake. Anyway, check out the ads, the retouching’s not bad. I don’t know about including an execution scene. That’s maybe a little too macabre. |Images: scary ideas|
All ad creatives dream of doing pro bono work for clients like Amnesty International or the World Wildlife Fund. They dream of being able to do stuff like stuff a woman inside a clear suitcase on an airport luggage conveyor belt in the name of denouncing human trafficking. They dream of having Photoshop Phun with the world’s despots. But mostly, they dream of the chance to take a brief break from their careers of deceiving consumers to Do Some Good. And, if you can combine the benevolence with a hot chick photo shoot, well that’s aces, baby. Above, via ad agency Unitas/RNL in Santiago, Chile, mommies dressed as slutty Snow White and Red Hot Riding Hood have been bloodied by daddy in an AI violence against women campaign. Sorry, but using sex to sell anti-violence, while attention-grabbing, is just plain disturbing. |Images: BestAdsOnTV|
Ad Creep Update is a regular feature on ANIMAL documenting the spreading epidemic of advertising media placement seeping into every nook and cranny of your daily life. “Anything to declare?” “Yes, one blonde slave.” If you’re a world traveler, you may have noticed the growing trend of ads on luggage conveyor belts. Well, Amnesty International in Germany recently raised the airport ad creepage alert level to red. According to AI, over 500,000 women and girls are victims of human trafficking every year. To indelibly imprint this into the minds of Deutschlanders, the human rights organization crammed a young volunteer into a clear suitcase and plopped her on carousels in German airports. I guess they got the authorities’ permission? “Stoppt Menschenhandel” translate as “stop slave trade.” No word on how long the shifts were for Frau Flexible. Jump for video footage of the creepy event. Read more »
Happy Friday! It’s a BEAUTIFUL day here in NYC. Almost makes you feel good to be alive. So here’s 60 seconds of historic human death and suffering via Amnesty International that makes an admirable attempt at illustrating every which kind of killing method ever devised by us evildoers—everything from catapults to Kamikazes—but of course doesn’t come close. We can fucking slay, can’t we? The payoff line of this impressively-produced video is “Everybody Is Against Everybody. Somebody Has To Be For Them.” I love the animation and the torn-paper cuts, but the music bothers me. Something a little more disunited to the visuals, something not so military, would have created a more dramatic effect. Still, it’s entertaining, and better than the usual heavy-handed Amnesty stuff like this UK torture-porn spot. Previously: Amnesty nose-tweaks tyrants. |Video: IBIA|
More and more of you consumers are DVRing and RSSing and canceling your periodical subscriptions. So, more and more advertisers are cramming messages anywhere and everywhere they can in your daily walkabout life. Like toilet lids and playground swings and laundromat dryers and shopping carts and your crotch. And now, your Dim Sum platter. An Austrian divorce lawyer (here’s the schmuck) apparently paid some local Chinese restaurants to use these customized chopsticks with his URL. How clever! And how invasively awkward for dining shaky couples. What’s next—hedge funds advertising in fortune cookies (probably already done)? Well, once you leave the restaurant, don’t look up! Because Amnesty International has placed nooses on lamp posts in German cities as a friendly reminded that 20 people are executed worldwide every day (That’s all?) Image after the jump.
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