I notice everything. Maybe its my personality, maybe its because advertising and corporate branding is part of my online world, but not an ad goes by that I don’t inspect.
Yesterday when I walked by this big ad for Twilight in the mall, I did a double take. What do my wondering eyes should appear but crotch level shots of the hottest heartthrobs in America.
Now is it just me or is there a reason they put these life-size cutouts a foot off the ground so when you walk by you get pee-pee visuals? Strategically placed marketing ploy to get girls excited?
Just so you know for measurements sake, Im about 61 inches tall. I bet an average preteen is about 55 inches tall, which puts that right about face level, if you get my drift.
Am I over analyzing or something to it?
P.S. Dont think it didn’t cross my mind to be totally inappropriate in this shot.
HA HA..I’m a little person (3’6″) and now you know how I feel every time I walk into a bar and *bump* into a man…BUT it’s not good for our teens/tweens. There is just WAY too much sexual stuff out there and then everyone wonders why teenagers have sex and end up pregnant and all that stuff.
That picture is hilarious! But, I absolutely agree! Teen sex is being pushed really hard by the media. UGH! As if we don’t have a hard enough time helping our teens stay out of trouble already!
LOL too funny.
If I saw that in my mall, I’d be tempted to scream.
I do not get the Twilight thing at all. Actually, I might slip a Sharpie in my purse just in case my mall has those creepers hanging up. Then I can give them mustaches and make tweens cry. Mwahaha.
I wish you would have been inappropriate, that would have been much more fun.
Over analyzation. Do they really think that hard? lol. Thanks for the crotch, I mean eye candy.
Well. Maybe. But it’s not going to stop me from running out to buy the New Moon DVD in a few days!
Blech. Add this to the reasons why I hate Twilight and everything to do with it!
I think they are just that big/high to get other peoples attention from the other side of the mall. I’m sure many people have posed “inappropriately” with these posters
btw, I really like your top. I love shirts with big buttons
Um, where can I get them??? LOL
A man-a very tall one at that probably hung them up. It’s like have you ever had to use one of those changing tables in a public restroom and it was WAY and I mean WAY above your waist level.
As for Twilight’s morals. That’s the book. Stephenie Meyer – or even Summit Entertainment – doesn’t really have much to say about who hangs posters of the actors in a mall.
Oh by the way, your shirt is really cute
HAHA! I love that you restrained yourself in the photo.
I do think it is ridiculous that they are so large and at the level they are put it at but I bet it’s so people could spot it from long distance as well as close up. I probably would have thought nothing of it.
But it makes sense… if you read the books the 3rd one has so much sexual tension it’s nuts.
I thought twilight was supposed to be all good morals & vampires & good triumphs over evil no matter what the circumstance?
Huh, another way the media/Hollywood is trying to over sexualize our youth.
Good. Lord. I won’t even let my 5 year old wear a halter top or leopard print & they want tweens/teens to drool over this shit.
Nice.
I think I’ll be sending Miss Ro to a convent school in the frozen tundra. And we’re not even Catholic.
Looks like the perfect level to me!
Wow that is close. I am 70 inches tall so luckily I won’t be too close, but my daughter who is 9 would be really inappropriately close to that area.
I think Twilight is popular enough to not use that strategy of head to pee pee. You say Robert P or Jacob L and any tween will scream. Hell say Twilight and they will scream until their face goes red and they can no longer speak.
I might have ripped both of them off the wall and made a run for it. It’s probably a good thing that I only go to the mall twice a year.
Oh my (picture C-3po saying that)
I have to agree with your preception.
You have way more restraint than I do. Because there would have been all kinds of facial expressions involving tongues and lots of grope-y hands if I had been in that picture.