Long-vacant Bowery retail space resorts to scotch ads; Claire Forlani's giant billboard hand terrorizes me

On the Bowery and Bond, the Washington Mutual closed in the corner space back in March 2009. And it has remained empty.

While the space awaits a new tenant, it's now being used to sell some Dewar's...

As AdWeek noted of the tagline, The Drinking Man's Scotch Preferred by English Women with Scottish accents.

And these ads, featuring actress Claire Forlani, give me the creeps. Rather, that GIANT HAND on the billboard on Lafayette and Great Jones gives me the creeps. It's like some B-movie severed hand prop.

But as creepy as Harrison Ford's head...?

[January 2010]