Book Review: HUMANS 3.0, by Peter Nowak
HUMANS 3.0 The Upgrading of The Species Peter Nowak Goose Lane, 2015 It may seem out-of-place to review a book about technoculture on a “non-profit advertising and marketing for social causes blog.”...
View ArticleAnti-FGM campaign looks brutally familiar
The first thought that crossed my mind, when people started asking me about this new anti-FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) campaign by Ogilvy, UK, was “didn’t Amnesty do it first”? Yes, they did....
View ArticleThese people come out as anti-equal-marriage, for some reason
Last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states, has provoked a lot of negative reaction by Americans who oppose such unions on religious...
View ArticleThere are no spoken words in this Prayer for Paris
A prayer and sharing love is the only answer to terror and violence. That is an opinion, which is more than the maker of the video above has to say and I think he is right. It is made by Alex...
View ArticleThese Jews and Arabs kiss to protest
Extensively kissing on video is done before. Sometimes it is simply marketing like First Kiss. Or it is relevant advertising like this TV ad for a Portuguese Film Festival. Or a kiss for tolerance,...
View ArticleProvocative Initiative To Address Islamophobia: #IAmMuslim
A campaign about Islam and intolerance combined with flags as the ultimate symbol of nationalism. Those are enough ingredients to call it provocative. Agency NATIVE VML did it for People Against...
View ArticleTherapy dogs for refugees: Dogs don’t know intolerance and prejudice
The story in this new campaign video is told through the eyes of a dog. It is a therapy dog from the Brazilian INATAA telling us that he don’t care about what is on tv, what is said in the papers. He...
View ArticleCanada comes to terms with its racist past
Canada, as a colonial country, has a shamefully racist past with Indigenous peoples. French and then English colonists massacred, cheated, and infected the original people here, taking their land in...
View ArticleAustralian Sex Party Makes A Toe-Tapping Anti-Catholic Jingle
This is about as irreverent as they come. The Australian Sex Party, which despite its name has a broad civil liberties agenda, recently fired a blasphemous shot across the bow of one of the world’s...
View ArticleA terrorist faces his victims in this Kuwaiti PSA for #Ramadan
“Where’s the Muslim outrage” about acts of terror, you sometimes hear westerners parrot. Well, what if the proper reaction wasn’t outrage, but love? This ad, funded by mobile company Zain, is pretty...
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