September 9, 2009

I like taking iPhone shots of the billboards on Wilshire Boulevard, and on June 22 I saw this on the wall of a really tall building. The colors were intriguing, and I considered it artistic. The fact that it was an ad for Absolut Vodka and that the round thing was a mango representing a new flavor didn't register in my mind at the time. I completely overlooked the bottle and the copy.

Imagine my surprise when today the Los Angeles Times makes a big hullabaloo over it, saying that it's a vagina. Now that I think about it, in all likelihood that was the intention of the artist and of Absolut's ad agency, but then so what. If anything, isn't it clever?