Is the end near for brainless cupcake iconography?

A reader passes along this photo and a note ...

"New ad at Union Square. I'm no locavore, but I'm pretty sure that cupcake wasn't harvested from a farm within 100 miles. Maybe this means the end is near for brainless cupcake iconography.

Salt water daffy

The latest from the Pretzel Crisps folks.... And here's a little background on the previous Pretzel Crisps campaigns....

When did American Apparel start selling Levi's?

Dunno, something American Apparel-y about this new Levi's ad campaign that is seemingly up in about 400 spots throughout the East Village (and elsewhere...)





13th Street and Avenue A. All shapes and sizes?

Another pretzel ad plot twist

A quick Pretzel Crisps ad recap:

The first ad!



Complaints! Then!



Still, complaints! Now!



NYC the Blog has been busy reporting on this story. You can read it all here.


Previously on EV Grieve:
Into thin air: Pretzel maker removing 'too thin' ads


[Thanks to Thanks to EV Grieve reader K. Knipfing for the top two photos]

The CW still hiring horny teens to create their ad campaigns

Pretzel logic

So... you remember that little controversy about the pretzel-ad campaign....like the one seen here on First Avenue and First Street...



NYC the Blog had been in touch with the pretzel people who said...

"Based on the feedback received from you and other bloggers, we will be taking the ‘You can never be too thin’ ads down."

The company has also apologized.

So they replaced the ad. And what did they replace it with?



Um.

Thanks to EV Grieve reader K. Knipfing for the photos.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Into thin air: Pretzel maker removing 'too thin' ads

Into thin air: Pretzel maker removing 'too thin' ads

As you may recall last Thursday, we posted this photo from EV Grieve reader K. Knipfing ... pointing out the new make-us-feel-badly-about-our-bodies ad on the northeast corner of First Street and First Avenue...



NYC the Blog has been all over this too... even corresponding with the company:

Perry Abbenante, Vice President of Marketing at Snack Factory LLC, maker of Pretzel Crisps, responded to an email request for comment shortly after, explaining that they have been monitoring the situation, and will be "making some adjustments to the campaign."

And now!

He just followed up, and informed NYC The Blog: "Based on the feedback received from you and other bloggers, we will be taking the ‘You can never be too thin’ ads down."

The company has also apologized.

Ads on First and First still want us to feel badly about our bodies

EV Grieve reader K. Knipfing points out the new ad on the northeast corner of First Street and First Avenue...



"You can never be too thin." As K put it: "A timeless message from Pretzel Crisps lightly reminding you that you will never reach any 'goal' when it comes to your body."

Previously at this spot, H&M advertised its $4.95 "bikini tops" ...

What will it be next time?

Just pointing out that the catchphrase to Yahoo!'s annoying new $100 million marketing campaign...



is the same as the tagline for the classic "Jaws: the Revenge."

New bank branch for Avenue A?

Thanks to the dear EV Grieve reader who passed along this....On Avenue A near 12th Street.

OK, who put up the 50,000 "Fight smack in the orphanage" posters?

Jesus, they're everywhere! Like this one one Seventh Street... for the spoof "Black Dynamite."