Tiffany conch and diamond Chrysanthemum Brooch ~ what do you call an octopus with 31 legs?

If you think that this Tiffany & Co. brooch looks more like an octopus than a chrysanthemum, your instincts might not be too far off:
 
Its petals are carved from a single conch shell, and the piece has an exquisite and rare conch diamond weighing in at 25 carats.   This is one of those crazy pieces [...]

Diamonds require no tech support

After the diamond rant, I went on the hunt for ads that are a little less about prostitution.  I found a decent one on the back of Money magazine’s December 2007 issue:

This ad is a simple, elegant picture of the Journey diamond jewelry line that plays to the holiday gift-giving crowd.  In other word, [...]

The place of ‘place’ in the world of ‘women are whores’ luxury advertising

There has been a lot of buzz in the media this week about the current wave of jewelry advertising in which jewelry peddlers are essentially saying that you can save your relationship and have sex (again) if diamonds are given as a gift.  Bloggers like Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon are right on in saying that [...]

Tampax Pearl may cure seasonal affective disorder

Let the women of the north rejoice! Tampax has cured seasonal affective disorder. We touched on the Tampax Pearl product in this post on naval security, but we weren’t ready for a new web ad that popped up yesterday. It blew us off our cold northern chairs:

So, what they’re saying is that [...]

CNN takes heat for ‘diamonds vs. pearls’ question for Hillary at Democratic Debate in Vegas

CNN is taking some heat for asking a UNLV student to close the debate with a light-hearted question for Hillary Clinton about whether she prefers diamonds or pearls.  The young woman says that she would have preferred to ask a question about nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, but CNN told her to end the questioning [...]

What does naval security have to do with dolphins, bikini-clad women, and feminine products?

I pulled up an article from GlobalSecurity.org called "Navy Approves Raytheon’s Zumwalt Total Ship Computing Environment Infrastructure" when this ad popped up at me:

They use one of every Rapidsea-ready image.  Of course, it’s as weird as the second ad that showed up at the top of the screen when I returned to the article to [...]

Tiffany sterling silver pearls and Frank Gehry "Fish" Necklace

Now that we have traveled from the realm of discount stores to luxury goods, Tiffany & Co. have sent out their latest irresistible bit of email bacn. Here it is:

Tiffany & Co. seem to be in tune with their inner ocean these days, as I started writing about in my Somerset post. This time they [...]

Pearly white Intel Centrino Duo ~ in a slimy notebook?

Intel has a pearl and oyster ad out touting their Centrino Duo Processor for notebooks. Here it is (click to enlarge):
They have gone to great lengths to really pull out the rainbow colors in that chip. It makes me wonder why they couldn’t have come up with something a little less literal relating to pearls [...]