Set in 1960s New York, the sexy, stylized and provocative AMC drama Mad Men follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising, an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell.
This blog is dedicated to the 1960s and the era when Mad Men ruled the world and those creative sociopaths past and present conjured up compelling advertising to convince the world o material things they could not live without.
From politics to pop culture, the 60s offered an incredible array of sights, sounds and swingin' sensations. It was the decade of Batman, Bond, the Beatles, bongs, Barbarella, beatniks, beach bunnies and Bob Dylan. From the Rat Pack at the dawn of the decade to the Rolling Stones at its zenith, from Motown to monster movie magazines, from drive-ins to dope, the 60s offered something for jet setters, hippies, suburban kids, surfers, radicals and fun lovin' freaks alike. There were also the tragedies, like JFK, Bobby, MLK and Viet Nam, that still resonate and affect our world today. And let's not forget the sexual revolution underlying this tumultuous explosion of art and war.
"He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers."
Don Draper: Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK.
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Barbarella
(1968)
Aside from watching Jane Fonda frolic in various sexy space-age outfits (and even nude) on her mission to stop the evil Duran-Duran, Roger Vadim’s classic sex-ploitative sci-fi tale really is wildly entertaining. The entire film is pure eye candy, at times verging on tasteful soft-porn. But Fonda is perfect as a doll, and we love that it’s unintentionally tongue-in-cheek.
God, I am so in love with this photo. And this woman. She is so exquisite.
(Source: mrflanksteak)
It’s a print ad for maternity magazine. The double splead portrays a breastfeeding woman and her baby. Two pages are glued together. One you tear them off of each other, the baby’s mouth tears off the nipple, thus demostrating how painful breastfeeding can be, unless you can use Garmastan lotion
