At the Virtual Theology I mentioned in passing the series of User Friendly cartoons that talked about auctioning advertising space on your body for cash. (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050205)
Now reality(?) catches up with virtuality in NZ with a pregnant woman doing just that via the main NZ online auction service. NZ Herald : Mother auctions her bump for advertising space
Reminds me of a clip I saw once over at Adbusters a while back called “Human Branding”. Cameras in a shopping mall focusing on all the different brands people paid to advertise. (It was submitted as part of a competition and it may still be floating around the internet.)
stu
have seen this guy?? i wonder how lucrative it will be when everyone jumps on this bandwagon. this guy auction his forehead for US$39 000 and is still making money on his weblog from other advertising revenue.
makes you think really…
Stephen
Hmm. In fixing the comment the link got lost. Post it again?
stu
http://www.humanadspace.com