Thursday 16 July 2009

Cigarettes and Honey

Spotted: Billboards on the London Underground advertising the release of Coco Avant Chanel have actress Audrey Tautou holding a fountain pen in her right hand and resting a journal on her knees. In the original poster she is holding a cigarette in her right hand and there is no diary to be seen. Stunning that a cigarette held by an actress in a film commercial didn’t make it past The Tube’s advertising regulations, but blown-up nightmarish pictures of preserved dead bodies advertising Gunter von Hagens’ Body Worlds at the O2 were plastered all over the place.

1 comment:

Paul Taberham said...

I think there should be some law passed about showing pictures of spiders on billboards.

There is nothing obscene or vulgar about it but if you don't like spiders, it's bloody horrifying.

Did you ever see Apocalypse Now? Brando says towards the end, "they train our soldiers to drop fire on families, but they won't let them write expletives on their helmets because it's obscene".

Ah, the conflict between common sense and censorship will probably go on and on...