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Advertising inserted into a 1972 science-fiction paperback by A. E. Van Vogt.

Paul Collins, Smoke This Book:

“The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the New American Library. Despite the lofty name, the group’s real purpose was to sell advertisements in paperbacks, and its first target was the biggest success of them all: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.” A 1959 Pocket Books print run of 500,000 included advertisements by Q-Tips, Carnation and Procter & Gamble. By 1963, a 26-page insert in Spock was commanding $6,500 to $7,500 per page, and ads were spreading into mysteries and other pulps as well.”

Daily Mail (sic!), The outrageously politically incorrect adverts from the time equality forgot

Number of inhabitants per doctor.

Doctors of the World, Netherlands: Perspective

Improv Everywhere (We Cause Scenes): No Shirts

“For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York.”

BBC World Advertising Campaign in the USA Klik voor groter beeld. (via)

Gawker: “The Banana Republic ad with the architects—it’s everywhere! And it raised some questions for us. So we asked an architect—we’ll call him Frankie Lloyd—who works at “a large firm downtown with an eccentric, megalomaniac starchitect at the helm” how the ad stacked up to his reality. “

The Ad Generator: “The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. ” (via)

• Newsdesigner.com
  “A weblog about newspaper design”
  (tags: design newspaper)
• nl20 - Uitgaan in Amsterdam - Times Square in Amsterdam?
  “Het Sandberg Instituut is momenteel druk bezig met het kunst-project ‘Artvertising. Reclame wordt Kunst!’. Begin december wordt de gevel van het Instituut opgefleurd door ontelbaar veel advertentie billboards. “
  (tags: sandberg art amsterdam advertising billboards)

• Belles de Pub…Mon petit musée virtuel de publicités féminines des années 1940 à 1960
  “L’élégance et le charme sont mis en valeur par les plus grands illustrateurs de publicité et de mode : R.Gruau, P-L.Brenot, P.Simon, Bosc, C.Bérard, G.Demachy, Delfau, Vertès …et bien d’autres… “
  (tags: advertising france fashion)

• Flickr: Photos from secretsnapper
  Toegewijd voyeurisme.
  (tags: photography voyeurisme)
• TWENTY FOUR: Nothing in Between!
  Clever and clear.
  (tags: advertising)

• adicolor: black (quicktime)
  (tags: adicolor adidas advertising)
• Planet - En toen lag alles plat
  “Loop met een doos vol explosieven de Amsterdam Internet Exchange binnen en even later trilt het internet op zijn grondvesten”
  (tags: internet ams-ix terrorism nl)

• adidcolor: yellow (quicktime)
  ” neo-urbanism action drama “
  (tags: adidas color advertising)
• Quotenet - De Endstra Tapes
  “De Endstra Tapes beslaan 254 pagina’s en zijn opgenomen in periode tussen 20 maart 2003 en 28 januari 2004. “
  (tags: crime nl)
• Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers
  “In this period the three mayor search engines requested more than one million pages of the tree, from more than hundred thousand different URLs. “
  (tags: bots search dmwh web)

• Noorderlicht Noorderlicht Nieuws: Onzichtbare reclame
  “Met stiekeme reclameboodschappen kunnen fabrikanten ons ertoe zetten voor hun producten te kiezen. Mits ze ons daarmee precies op het goede moment lastigvallen. “
  (tags: advertising)

• campari ad (flash video)
  (tags: advertising gender crossdressing)
• Ads for Unhealthy Foods May Explain Link Between Television Viewing and Overweight in Children, press release of Thursday, April 20, 2006, Harvard School of Public Health
  “kids who spend more time watching television also eat more of the calorie-dense, low-nutrient foods advertised on television. “
  (tags: children health tv advertising)
• Photos of Tibet in the 1940’s
  (tags: photography tibet)
• adicolor: red (quicktime)
  (tags: adidas red)
• “Official Art Poster 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™”
  Artists from the six FIFA Confederations have contributed their works to the Edition. An open as well as a signed, numbered edition is available.
  (tags: poster fifa)
• Vintage French Tourism PR photos - a photoset on Flickr
  “From 1934 towards the end of the sixties, the French Ministry for Tourism employed full-time PR photographers to snap “celebrities” travelling by Air France.”
  (tags: flickr photography travel)
• Santa Fe Center for Photography
  “The photographs in The Course Of History are landscapes of the worst killing fields of Europe, of battles that were turning points in our history, defining our future.”
  (tags: photography war europe)
• Consumentenbond test digitale televisie-aanbieders
  “Volgens de bond moeten consumenten eerst bij zichzelf te rade gaan wat ze nu hebben, of ze daar tevreden over zijn en dan pas bedenken wat ze eigenlijk nodig denken te hebben.”
  (tags: digitale-tv tv upc kpn iptv)
• KUNSTBEELD: Kunstbeeld100
  Atelier van Lieshout is kampioen
  (tags: art kunst nl kunstbeeld kunstbeeld100)
• No Longer Europe’s Sewer, but Not the Rhine of Yore - New York Times
  “”But under the water where nobody can see it, it’s no longer a German river, at least not in the biological sense. It’s an international river.”"
  (tags: rhine eco)

• PistolWimp - Incredible Machines
  DIY Lauf der Dingen
  (tags: video diy)
• adicolor Pink
  “Created by Charlie White, Pink is sublime and captures all the textures that fit the color.”
  (tags: video adidas)
• VPRO Gidst online
  “We wilden op internet dezelfde kwaliteit bieden als in de gedrukte gids”
  (tags: tv gids vpro nl)
• Disclaimers could make emails into contracts [printer-friendly] | The Register
  “The High Court in Manchester has ruled that an email cannot be recognised as a legal written offer if it does not contain a signature or name within the body of the mail. “
  (tags: mail legal uk)
• NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF JAPAN | Digital Gallery
  “Japanese air raid posters “
  (tags: art design history japan propaganda war)
• Joan Fontcuberta: Miracles & Co. Images
  “Isolated by perpetual fog and the labyrinthine islands of Lake Saimaa, Valhamönde is a small monastic community that is interdenominational and ecumenist.”
  (tags: art photography)

• First Person Paradoxes: The Logic of War in Computer Games
  “Day one of Game, Set and Match II “
  (tags: game war)
• white
  “adicolor Podcast: White (aka adiporn)”
  (tags: advertising porn adidas color white)
• Erika’s (Knitting | Sketching) Blog » Tree Sweater
  Knitt a sweater for a tree. (With the pattern)
  (tags: knitting art)
• Dennis Forbes - The Search For A Domain Name
  “Analysis of all 3.5GB of the .COM TLD zone file”
  (tags: TLD com domain)

• Rachel Papo: serial no. 3817131
  “Rachel Papo’s photoblog on female Israeli soldiers.”
  (tags: israel photography)
• Social Design Notes: Guerilla Wayfinding, 2
  “Someone’s been painting directional signs on the ground outside subway stop in NYC”
  (tags: signs subway nyc navigation)
• U bent gearriveerd op de website van de Koninklijke Marine on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  “We verzoeken u geduld te hebben en hopen u binnenkort toch te kunnen verwelkomen op de website van de Koninklijke Marine.”
  (tags: flickr screenshot marine.nl browser os safari osx)
• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC plans global website with ads
  “BBC Worldwide hopes to launch bbc.com in spring 2007 to capitalise on the popularity of BBC content abroad.”
  (tags: bbc web tv)

• Schneier on Security: Al Qaeda Hacker Captured
  “So he was a terrorist. And he used the Internet, both as a communication tool and to break into networks. But this does not make him a cyberterrorist.”
  (tags: terrorism Internet irhabi007 al-qaeda)
• Drunk
  “about drunken driving”
  (tags: advertising drunkdrive)