Comments on: Jessica Alba Topless And Taped For New Voting Campaign

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Jack Elfrink Dot Com » Blog Archive » culture shock — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:25:05 +0000

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By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:22:43 +0000

Wow. I am all for edgy campaigns that grab your attention…but this is just downright offensive.

By: Remy Chevalier

Remy Chevalier — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:49:38 +0000

Summer, you really got this stuff down… On her knees no less, and you’re probably right. You’re also right about not being able to tell it’s her, so the whole visual falls flat, because it could be any other generic model. There are a slew of AMAZING green super models out there who by simple virtue of who they are and their lifestyle profess radical change in the world, to name a few, Angela Lindvall, Summer Rayne Oakes, Betcee May Lindstrom… Don’t get me wrong I love fetish photography, I think magazines like Skin Two, Marquis, Secret are beautiful and edgy. They’ve launched the careers of dozens of today’s top fashion shooters. But this ad is all screwy. I agree with you it sends the wrong message. It feels like some marketing PR guy just wanted to see Alba wrapped up in electric tape! Which, yeah, who wouldn’t? But the picture is awful… and bottom line, that’s the worse crime. That they let out a campaign spending huge bucks on a photograph that didn’t make the cut.

By: Summer

Summer — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:13:06 +0000

Offensive, distasteful, and totally the wrong message. Women should never be photographed this way.

Plus, bad marketing! 1. You can barely tell it’s her. 2. With their slogan being “only you can silence yourself” why do they have her depicted as a crying woman, presumably on her knees (since she’s looking up), who has been taped up and silenced by someone else?

If their target market is S&M freaks, the campaign just might work.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:47:43 +0000

Seems like Jessica Alba just wanted to pose for another sexy picture to me. The way I see it she is making “undeclaring yourself” pretty sexy. I think, the exact opposite of the message that she wants to portray. Oh well, I guess she has another pretty picture to ad to her portfolio.

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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:00:14 +0000

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By: Veganlicious

Veganlicious — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:48:16 +0000

Edgy and eye-catching doesn’t make it okay…comparing voting to being tied up (and presumably assulted)!? Sorry, I like that Jessica thinks politics is important, but voting is a very small part of politics; it doesn’t compare to the image. I’m so sick of messed-up imagery being *everywhere* in society, and even more sick of seeing it in progressive or activist ads. This is like PeTA for voting.

By: Stephanie Williams

Stephanie Williams — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:24:11 +0000

I think it’s edgy and eye catching, esp the others as well.

I don’t even like her, but i just went to the site and looked at the other ads, and registered to vote at my new address while i was there.

So it worked for me!

By: theresa Southern

theresa Southern — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:58:51 +0000

I don’t think it communicates much more than “I am kind of scared. I hope I remember my ’safety word’.”