Men On: Men In Media
A humorous but on point look at how guys are viewed and exposed in media today! Fellas, it’s bitter sweet. 2008 Palindrome Productions
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CK ad gets more attention than intended.
You’ve probably come across a couple of reports about the Calvin Klein ad released over the summer (2009). This has got to be one of the most obnoxiously grotesque forms of advertising I’ve ever had the “privilege” of looking at every day to and from Scholastic Media in SoHo. What the flying fuck were they coming off of at Klein? MaxHardcore?
Glued way up high above Lafayette and Broadway in one of the more Posh sides of downtown NYC was this Calvin Klein Jeans ad. When I first saw it I thought, “oh, dude making out with chic on a couch.” Which very soon became, “wait, dude making out with chic on a couch, who’s making out with his twin?” Then finally, “No! twins gang a chic while triplet gets ready to jack off on the floor of high school orgy!”
Now I know guys innocently enjoy their share of child porn, that is, when they can smuggles any of it into their cell. But I never knew those same guys were making 6 figure salaries working for some of the biggest fashion companies in the world! Why the fuck did Arora get a Bachelor of Science degree when he just as easily could have taken pictures at a prom party, slapped on a decal and made millions! Woa is me…woa!
Staged
It’s usually around the time you finish your first year at college that you unintentionally assemble the friends you’re going to spend some of the dopest times of your life with. That doesn’t just include the shit shows at townie bars or road trips to lawn seats at the DMB concert. These are the friends you can call together on a Tuesday or even Saturday night and gather around the porch with nothin’ more than a bowl and Teddy Brews. That’s why they become your closest friends, its a big night even if its a small night.
While kickin’ it with the guys an idea come up which, was just fuckin’ hysterical. Fuckin’… fuckin’ hysterical in the dorkiest way possible. We decided that we should take some pictures to remember the night (which was nothing more special than any other). But rather than say than say “cheese” at the lens, we would take action shots. I think posed smiles are boring and don’t tell any kind of story, except “we were doing something, but we took a minute to smile and keep you guessing. Cheese!”
We took it a step further and decided that these action shots should be posed. Sort of meshing the two together. They indeed would be action shots, only whatever the action was would be completely staged and held for a few seconds, similar to the traditional “cheese” formation.
To break it down, we decided in advance the event that would take place in the following picture:
Arora (bic’d head on the right) would be telling a story
Ang would be pointing at me in a “oh yea! I get it!” manner
Carl would look down, shoulders in as if to be saying “I’m not sure I follow, what?”
See…
How fuckin’ funny is that?! And utterly toolish but whatever, freakin’ awesome.
We took one more. In this:
Brooks (hat) is the storyteller
Carl listens attentively (and a bit giddy)
Ang passes Tina a teddy
Arora grabs a lighter from the middle of the table
Again, we had to hold position until the flash went off, which makes this all the more dope. Just dope.
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