By TL on 08.17.06 5:56 pm

I hear that Server Room chick puts out more than an OC-12… *dies*

By Wookie on 08.17.06 9:30 pm

I want someone to track this woman down and start an homage site for tracking where she is. “Wheresthecdwgirl.com”.

Most. Hits. EVAR!

By Hic on 08.18.06 8:22 am

Doesn’t it make you feel like everything is fake and plastic in this world? The trend for using stock art at websites (as opposed to Dancing Jesus) is a more recent trend than in the t.v. world. Some commercials are hilarious, you’ve got a home equity commercial showing a family playing with their dog, a couple sitting down on the couch with the news paper on a Sunday morning, a black dad helping his little black son learn how to ride a bike. All stock footage. The commercial folks have a database of this “feel-good” crap. And commercials where they take user testimonials….maybe I’m naive, but I think some of those are real. I also feel that the majority of them are fake.

When I used to work at NG, one of the artists there (yeah they got media folk there) had a database of several thousand pictures that were all stock art. People with big heads against a white background, military shut, space/science, businessie people doing businessie stuff.

It all makes you wonder, who are the people taking these photos? I mean, when was the last time you walked by a photo shoot of a guy eating a cheeseburger and sorta-laughing as the ketchup runs down his chin. Or two guys in dress-casual clothing with hard hats, in front of a construcion sight (one holds a “blueprint”) and he’s pointing up behind the camera.

Years ago I would think, huh, cool construction guy uses this hemroid cream, I should as well! But all for naught. If anything it’s “cool b-class model guy is using hemroid cream, I should as well!”

….I don’t have roids.

By Chris on 08.18.06 10:48 am

Good point bringing up race. Sometimes I feel like commercials spin a racial color wheel while transitioning scenes. As long as the color wheel has made a 360°, then it’s politically correct.

I think people take and stage stock material for the purposes of selling them. Sex vs Cash theory still holding. Photographer doesn’t want to take lame pictures but needs to eat.

By Hic on 08.18.06 11:11 am

Completely agree on your last statement. Both points.

By TL on 08.18.06 2:02 pm

If a company portrays blacks eating fried chicken in their advertising, it’s target marketing. If some white guy says “hey look, those people are eating fried chicken cuz their black”, it’s racist. If I’m black, I want chicken and ringtones. If I’m white I want, I want Audi and TD Waterhouse.

Thank g0d we have corporate america to help us fit our image.

h8.