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Fake J-Lo Ad Gets Slightly More Objectionable
Hamilton Nolan · 11/29/11 09:16AMOne funny thing that homegrown American sweetheart Jennifer Lopez did recently was to make this Fiat commercial about her love for the Bronx without actually leaving her platinum-coated soundstage in L.A. at any moment. As if Jennifer Lopez would be caught dead in a Fiat! Right? Anyhow, they also apparently used the huge TATS Cru "I (Heart) The Bronx" mural without permission.
Never Pay a Penny to the University of Phoenix
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/10 01:11PMJuice Cleanses: The Truth Is Out There
Hamilton Nolan · 10/28/10 10:12AMVirtual Ad Spoofer Is Virtually Back
Hamilton Nolan · 08/03/10 11:16AMAmbient Music Replaces Drugs
Hamilton Nolan · 06/22/10 02:28PMAmericans Now Falling For Different Fitness Scams
Hamilton Nolan · 06/07/10 01:41PMReebok Just Taunting Women with Dumb Butt Shoes
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/10 12:10PMConnective Tissue Coffee
Hamilton Nolan · 01/07/10 11:17AMRape Tunnel Succeeds in Sparking Conversation, But Not Rape
Hamilton Nolan · 09/29/09 01:52PMNew York Times, 45 Years Ago: Same Shit
Hamilton Nolan · 08/18/09 10:46AMExclusive: How GQ Made Glenn Beck Cry
John Cook · 06/17/09 09:30AMOK! Magazine's Photoshop Playdate
Hamilton Nolan · 03/12/09 11:18AMLonelyGirl15, Her Advertisers, And Investors Form 'The Resistance'
Hamilton Nolan · 08/27/08 01:34PMRemember LonelyGirl15, that fake-ass scripted YouTube series that got really popular for a minute when everybody thought it was real and turned into a media phenomenon? Well it's coming back in a major way! Which means its rabid fans are still lurking out there, and have been doing who knows what for the last several weeks waiting for this. "LG15: The Resistance" (*chuckle*) will debut 12 new weekly episodes next month, produced by a CBS-funded firm and "integrated" with advertisements. Resist, yes. The show's promo—a total ripoff of those 'Anonymous' anti-scientology vids—after the jump.
Dove's 'Real' Women: Fakes?
Hamilton Nolan · 05/08/08 10:46AMYou know that Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty," which featured women slightly less skeletal than the average model, and therefore demonstrated that Dove is the greatest, most big-hearted company ever in the world? Well now there's a scandal about it! A new New Yorker story about Pascal Dangin, the world's "premier retoucher of fashion photographs," contains this tidbit on Dove's campaign, which ostensibly celebrates authentic, unadulterated womanhood:
Tina Fey's "Fecalist"
Richard Lawson · 04/15/08 03:32PMFake Vintage Ads: Viagra From The Past
Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/08 11:32AMEverybody loves vintage ads, because they're all old and weird-looking with funny language and whatnot. The drawback is, you can never buy the products in them. Well now that problem has been solved! Spooftastic Photoshop wizardry website Worth1000 sponsored a contest for fake vintage ads of current products. In a servicey move, we've culled the entire list down to the five best: Girls Gone Wild, Jagermeister, cell phones, Viagra, and laser hair removal—in the old school style—after the jump.