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Remix Symbols in Advertising

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Last Updated on Monday, 24 October 2011 22:39

Stolichnaya Vodka adverts remix the most notorious symbols of the USSR substituting the key image with lemons or slices.

This advert represents Mikhail Gorbachev, recognizable by the scar on his forehead. Other posters feature the Kremlin, the famous Russian Dolls (Matryoshka), the Mammer-and-Sickle, and the Sputnik.

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Scooter vs. Status Quo

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Last Updated on Monday, 24 January 2011 22:22

German techno-rave band Scooter have made many covers of 1970s and 1980s hit songs, including I'm Raving which sourced Cher's Walking in Memphis.

In Jump That Rock (Whatever You Want) Scooter deliver a strong bass techno version of Status Quo's original 1979 track Whatever You Want. In the music video both bands perform together, conveniently standing in neighbouring rooms the shared wall of which is being gradually demolitioned by a wrecking ball with the British flag on it.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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Last Updated on Monday, 24 January 2011 22:23

An interesting amalgam of adventure book heroes that not only defies the informed reader's ideas of these fiction novel characters but also plays with our knowledge of recent world history. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features Captain Nemo, Tom Soyer, Dorian Grey, Hawley Griffin (an Invisible Man), Dr. Jekyll (and Mr. Hyde of course), Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (Dracula's Jonathan Harker's wife) and King Solomon's Mines protagonist Allan Quatermain in a dizzying action packed save-the-world flick.

Technological wonders never seize to amaze the viewer in the League - from the Nautilus which was not anything so ultra tech in Jules Vernes' imagination to a 1915 British tank which makes its first appearance in 1899 in the streets of London breaking through the facade walls of the Bank of England driven by German military astonishingly looking like Nazi officers.

La Gioconda Remixed

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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:43

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