Thought-provoking stuff I’ve seen around but didn’t blog till today:

A sticker seen on a jeans ad that doesn’t look like it’s selling jeans at all. You know the kind of ad I mean: supermodel leaning forward, lots of skin, pouty shiny lips, the half-closed come-hither eyes… jeans? What jeans?

I was impressed. Some sort of sticker-wielding vigilante had slapped this, bold unadorned black text on a white background, right across the image. It was gone the next day. I hope enough people saw it; I hope the vigilante hits many other ads. Even more, I hope people get the message.

This is the sub-header on a blog I tripped across (sorry, no, I didn’t take down the URL, duh):

It made me think about how we self-censor as we blog, how we (some consciously, some unconsciously) take the time to choose the exact words we want used to describe our lives, our beliefs, our thoughts. It’s all about how you paint an image. It’s all about audience, and our sense of self. It’s about communication.