The appearance of Vampire Weekend was strange, even disturbing, but simultaneously exciting, because I had just started working on an article about Dracula, tourism, and a trip to a small town in Transylvania. Over the following months, vampires seemed to lurk in every corner. First came the bus-stop ads for a sports drink called "Tru Blood," which turned out to be a subversive marketing campaign for the HBO series "True Blood," about attractive young vampires and telepathics in a fictional Louisiana town.
Then a friend happened to attend a lecture on "Historical Amnesia in Contemporary

Then these somewhat alarming ads for Remy Martin champagne started popping up amidst the shadows of the subway.

[to be continued]
1 comment:
part III !!! i'm excited for it.
yes, those champagne ads are disturbing. i was in a car that was plastered exclusively with them last week and i wondered what kind of subliminal effect it was having on me. and everyone else. hmm...
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