Prattle & Jaw

Two blogs about a whole lot of nothing

Dutch Children Apologise for Terrorism

Painful. 

Filmmaker Abdelkarim El-Fassi, says, "I’ve never felt this uncomfortable while directing a video. Sure, it’s totally unethical and pedagogically irresponsible, and yet as a society we’ve practiced this on the macro-level for years. We’ve been talking certain communities into feelings of collective guilt for years. This has to stop, otherwise the problem will fester on for generations to come. I don’t want my nephew Hamza, who can be seen in the film, to be held accountable for matters that have nothing to do with him. He is a third generation Dutch-Moroccan. There is no justification whatsoever for him being treated differently from his white peers.”

Norwegian Air in Ad Kerfulle

Great print ad for Norwegian Air, using the Norwegian flag to show their new routes. 

Only 'problem' is that people are saying they've (M&C Saatchi) ripped off Eurostar's and the Polish Chamber of Tourism's ad from way back when (and 2008 respectively). If you ask me, imitation, flattery, all that. Get off your high horse. No one's copying anyone, they're taking a good idea a little bit further, and you'd be incredibly naive to think the world works in any other way. So there. 

You can read more here (if you don't understand Norwegian, stick it in Google Translate). 

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