Comments | ontd_political: Stephanopoulos seeks advice for Obama from Old Spice Guy. Plus a discussion on gender/advertising.

ladypolitik in ontd_political

Stephanopoulos seeks advice for Obama from Old Spice Guy. Plus a discussion on gender/advertising.

Jul 14, 2010 21:35

On Twitter, @ GeorgeStephanopoulos wrote:"@OldSpice Hey Old Spice Man -- Political question: President's lost some female support. How does WH get those women voters back?
Answer:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Bli13rO9A&

Context: Old Spice has engaged in a two-day viral ( Read more... )

lulz, capitalism, epic post, presidential ab-point, george stephanopoulos, advertising, gender

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redstar826 July 15 2010, 01:46:41 UTC

monocle smile! LOLOL

I'm one of those ladies who is only into other ladies, so there is no sex appeal here for me, but I think that dude is pretty hilarious.

lisaquestions July 15 2010, 02:18:16 UTC

IAWTC.

I agree with the OP, too. The masculinity feels so over the top it's satirical. It's like someone actually making the Chuck Norris jokes funny and somewhat charming.

keeni84 July 15 2010, 01:46:46 UTC

I think the point is that, unlike the Dodge commercials that seem to blame women for men not acting like men, these commercials seem to go over the top (on purpose) in describing what men and women want.

Also, that dude's real name is Isaiah Mustafa. I mean...come on, y'all.

ladypolitik July 15 2010, 01:52:14 UTC

Of course, but he's made a point of doing his entire Old Spice stink in full character, exhibit A:

...And being completely cheeky/shameless about it. LOL

keeni84 July 15 2010, 01:56:09 UTC

Oh no, I was marveling over the fact that his real name is as badass as his character!

keeni84 July 15 2010, 01:58:32 UTC

lol @ "eyes on the prize, Mustafa"

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mollywobbles867 July 15 2010, 01:47:59 UTC

lol monocle smile. gif plz

ladypolitik July 15 2010, 01:52:43 UTC

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owl_eyes_4ever July 15 2010, 01:54:29 UTC

ladypolitik July 15 2010, 02:22:43 UTC

Oh boy, it's a little complicated, and Ive been telling myself to make a comprehensive tutorial for like a year. LOL. I should get started on that now that Im on "vay-cay".

Here's a very basic run through of how I get my gifs:

I save choice youtube vids with aTube Catcher, usually with a .mov file output (because it works best when making gifs from Photoshop).
I fire up Adobe Photoshop and select File > Import> Video Frames Layer, which lets you extract gif frames from a video.
I save my gif in Photoshop then open it in Adobe Fireworks, where I apply text/borders for the final lulzy version. It all comes down to using layers at that point, which is where it gets complicated and would really require a tutorial with visual screen shots and everything. Haha. I WILL get started on that.

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escherichiacola July 15 2010, 01:48:39 UTC

I'm surprised baking is considered manly. I thought that's only the case with grilling. Though I kinda feel the same about the Old Spice commercials as I do towards wrestling, it's just too silly to be taken seriously.

fenris_lorsrai July 15 2010, 02:03:02 UTC

Yeah, baking would not be my top choice as a "manly" skill.

Squishing spiders, now that would be a manly skill.

paulnolan July 15 2010, 02:31:28 UTC

I bake and have a pet spider... this probably means I'm negative manly. D:

escherichiacola July 15 2010, 02:52:33 UTC

Nobody seems to like spiders. It makes me sad.

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frontyardninja July 15 2010, 01:50:04 UTC

No one in the White House has old spice swagger like Obama.