A fine spot for advertsing

On 12th Street near Avenue B.

Welcome to Hedonism

Did you see these ads along Second Avenue near Sixth Street (or was it Fourth Street?) for Hedonism Resorts in Jamaica?



Per their Web site:

Sleep in. Stay up late. Give up counting calories. Have a drink before noon. Give up mineral water. Dine in shorts. Talk to strangers. Don't make your bed. Go skinny dipping. Don't call your mother. Let your hair down. Don't pay for anything. Don't leave a tip. Be your beautiful self ...

Hedonism is a sandbox for your inner child, nourishment for the mind, body, spirit and soul. Pleasure comes in many forms. Choose one. Or two. Or more. And with absolutely everything included in one upfront price you never have to think about money. Not even tips. Just what to do next. And when.

Do we really need to travel to Hedonism Resorts to see activities like this?

The paper chase

I love newspapers and spend far too much time fretting about their demise... In any event, I've been intrigued by the use of newspapers in the ads atop cabs for A&E's show "Hoarders." I never did get a photo of one, though. However, Ask a Copywriter had these shots....



Ask a Copywriter also nabbed this shot of an ad abandoned on the sidewalk...

What a view!

An ad for the Top of the Rock Observation Deck on 12th Street and Avenue B...

Space for Target now stumping for Vans

At Avenue A and St. Mark's Place.

May!



Today!



Previously on EV Grieve:
Goodbye yellow brick ad

Kind of a funny public service announcement at a Cemusa shelter where buses idle like five minutes waiting to board passengers

Avenue C near Seventh Street.

Ad takeovers

As the Times reports, there was "a bizarre cat-and-mouse game" on billboards across the city yesterday.

One group of artists and activists spread across Lower Manhattan, transforming innumerous wheat-pasted posters — the ones that readily sprout over scaffolding — into their own canvas.

They would whitewash the posters and then create their own work, or allow anti-advertising advocates to spread their own messages.

But just as quickly as they whitewashed and put up art, workers arrived to put up new posters where the artists had obscured the old ones.

And so it went, back and forth, with drama, confrontation and even a few arrests by day's end.

The takeover efforts were organized by an artist, Jordan Seiler, who founded a group called the Public Ad Campaign to question and challenge the use of outdoor ads in public areas.

I took the photo here on Seventh Street and First Avenue.

Noted

Per MediaPost:

"The $100 million marketing blitz Yahoo launched two weeks ago to revitalize its brand may be having the opposite effect, according to early consumer feedback. Perception of Yahoo among U.S. adults has fallen steeply since the company kicked off its global campaign centered on the tag line "It's You" on Sept. 28, based on YouGov's BrandIndex, which tracks daily consumer perception of brands. It found Yahoo's buzz score had tumbled from 35.4 on Sept. 22 to 25.5 as of Monday."

Previously on EV Grieve:
I will NOT be commenting on Yahoo!'s new ad campaign

I will NOT be commenting on Yahoo!'s new ad campaign

Like the ad here above the Bowery Bar.

NBA ad takes over

Work on Chico's former "spay/neuter" mural on Avenue A near 12th Street is nearly complete. Here's how it looked last Sunday...



..and now...the NBA video game has come to life.





Previously.

For some reason I know that "House" premieres tonight

I'm really going to miss primary season

Booty Call

Too easy, that headline. Second Avenue near St. Mark's.

Noted

Houston near Avenue B.

And, this is obvious, but the song popped into my head...

Posts that I never got around to posting: Ashlee Simpson-Wentz's transition to TV star going as well as expected

On Third Avenue near 12th Street.

Governors Island ad campaign based on gang film?

On Avenue C.

No, but the slogan reminded me of something! Come out and play....? So close to come out to play....

Bowery Place

The yunnie posturing that takes place Thursday through Sunday on the Bowery often seems like a cheesy melodrama worthy of the CW Televison Network....



...so might as well advertise the revamped "Melrose Place" here.

What is wrong with this picture?

Posts that I never got around to posting: Jose Reyes eats potato chips

On Second Street near Avenue B.

Noted

Sixth Street and First Avenue.