300 Asian celebrities go nude for charity
If seeing Andy Hui or Pace Wu take a little off excites you, check out this notice on Shanghai-ist:
Famed Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee has found himself in the centre of a controversy over the launch of his latest photobook and exhibition, SuperStars, featuring 300 top Asian celebrities — many of them almost nude — a project that has taken him two years to complete.
Pace Wu poses in her undies.
Andy Hui takes it all off.
Of course, this is better than America, where celebs enjoy running around naked for sheer public amusement. Here, it’s apparently going for some kind of charity!
Ben-Q Dog Tag w/ 9/11 Imagery
The following is a Ben-Q advert for an mp3 player that ran in China:
The Chinese reads something like “Even if the world turns dust, I still believe in music” and features images from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. The singer is the lead of a group called Mayday.
Comments range from the intellectually absurd–”Snide nihilism is now officially my favorite phrase of this decade. thank you”–to the average American–”A-Holes anyway…. Zero respect to the victims. Period.”
Since this is marketed at an all-Chinese audience, my guess is the advertising firm simply ripped off the WTC rubble images without thinking about a possible emotional connection. This isn’t “disruptive advertising” like Microsoft’s Zune Orgasm, or Sony’s Racially Charged PSP ads. It’s just a bit of overreaction and repurposing.