Unexpectedly Cool Spokesmen

I present to you three unexpectedly cool dudes in ads:

Tom Bodett’s celebrity status (if you could call it that) was created by speaking in a humble sounding voice about a discount hotel chain. So much so that every Motel 6 spot begins with him introducing himself. Until I just googled his name I actually thought he was the CEO of Motel 6. Apparently his voice is just that perfect for their brand. “Hi, I’m Tom Bodett… [insert witty motel-related quips here] … and we’ll leave the light on for you.” If you want more proof: I know you just read that in your head using his voice. Crazy, right?

Hear more on his web site: http://bodett.com/motel6commercials.htm

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2) Ben Stein manages to pull off looking like a total intellectual while sounding like a lame tourist who forgot his allergy meds at home. He's too smart to care about something as menial as eye drops, which is why you should stop wasting his precious time and go get some Clear Eyes already. TAH DAH! Best spokesperson for eye drops ever.

3) Isiah Mustafa actually had his name “out there” well before the Old Spice commercials. But he’s a household name now, all because of deodorant. And if you asked any of the “Man your man could smell like” fans what he did before demonstrating what kind of man men could smell like, very few people would know he was in the NFL. And by now you're actually tired of hearing about him so much. I’m on a horse.

I demand an explanation!

I don't understand why whoever put this sofa off the side of a dirt road, surrounded by a huge field, bothered to position it so nicely. I now wish I had taken a photo from behind the couch to show what it was facing. I was too concentrated on trying to frame the couch with the lines behind it. For some reason this reminds me of a pigeon I saw on the way to work while I was driving on an overpass. The pigeon was on the side of the road, watching traffic speed by and looked like it was contemplating trying to WALK across to the other side. Had it not been on an overpass I might have thought the thing couldn't fly. Don't ask why my brain connected these two situations. My only explanation is that they both have to do with things on the side of roads that have no reasonable explanation for being there. Explain yourself, couch! And as for you, idiotic pigeon, I hope at least your feet are quick.

Dramatic "Whyyy???"

Ok so I was cleaning up old photo files and found these. I took them for a photography class last spring and I have never received so many matter-of-fact "that's a great photograph" comments. I'm not one to turn down a compliment... but I wish everyone in the art department had given a little more than "that's great." I did bother to ask, and several people cited "interesting symmetry." But if that's all it took to make a photo great I wouldn't bother blogging about photography, would I? I think if I had shown this to my photo professor in the College of Mass Communications the feedback would have been entirely different. So, my question to the blog world.... do you agree with the mass communicators or the artists? Why?