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Showing posts with label NSFW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSFW. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

US Airways NSFW photo on Twitter

In probably the biggest social media blunder by a company we've seen, US Airways has accidentally tweeted out a very NSFW (Not Safe For Work) photo for all the world to see.

US Airways is looking into what happened exactly.

Buzzfeed has reported it all started during this pretty routine conversation with a customer who was complaining about a delayed flight:
@USAirways Unhappy that 1787 sat for an hour on tarmac in CLT because overweight, resulting in over hour late arrival in PDX...
@ellerafter We truly dislike delays too and are very sorry your flight was affected.
@USAirways yeah, you seem so very sorry. So sorry, in fact, that you couldn't be bothered to address my other tweets.

And then, US Airways tweeted this…

And then on Monday, US Airways tweeted this...

Click here if you really want to see what the picture was. Warning: it is very graphic. 

The tweet was pulled down about an hour later, but it had already spread through Twitter very fast.



Here are some of the reactions:
I would HATE to be in PR for US Airways right now
Pulitzer in feature writing goes to the US Airways tweet
Some people are saying @USAirways was hacked but it looks like an inside job.

US Airways later acknowledged the tweet and apologised:

We apologize for an inappropriate image recently shared as a link in one of our responses. We’ve removed the tweet and are investigating.
The photo was trending on Reddit’s very NSFW shock imageboardSpacedicks last week. The graphic picture is originally from a German-language amateur porn and shock site.
No words, really.

Friday, 7 September 2012

'The Pirelli Calendar Saga' - SBS doco - in full, plus photos over the years

The doco 'The Pirelli Calendar Saga' aired on SBS [Australia] last night and it was pure heaven for a fan of the arty, nude-y [yes pervy, even] imagery produced for the calendar by the Italian tyre company.

I know, right. Can you imagine, say, Goodyear Australia producing something like this for its VIP customers?

It is an extraordinary piece of work, and only several thousand are produced and distributed each year.

A roll call of photog legends have shot for the calendar: Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Terry Richardson, Herb Ritts, Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Sorrenti, Bruce Weber, and more.

With models the main subjects, celebrities have also been photographed over the years.

And though nude shots are de rigueur now, there was a time in the calendar's history [the first Pirelli calendar was shot in 1964] when naked was a definite no-no.

Pubic hair has been known to be Photoshopped out, locations have been wacky and sometimes downright dangerous, and the results have always been spectacular.

Watch the entire doco here [click link below] and see some of the best pics over the years below [NSFW]: 

http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/video/2178489285/The-Pirelli-Calendar-Saga