{"id":3156,"date":"2008-12-12T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T22:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2010-09-21T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T22:45:49","slug":"peralta-does-some-bottom-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3156","title":{"rendered":"Peralta Does Some Bottom Feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0\" width=\"430\" height=\"270\" id=\"whoppervirgins\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.whoppervirgins.com\/widget.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.whoppervirgins.com\/widget.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"430\" height=\"270\" name=\"whoppervirgins\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Iconic skateboarder\/film director <strong>Stacy Peralta<\/strong> is getting grief from all corners for a recent commercial project commissioned by <strong>Burger King<\/strong> via bad-boy advertising agency <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpbgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crispin Porter &#38; Bogusky<\/a><\/strong> in which Peralta traveled the world to find &#8220;Whopper Virgins.&#8221; Burger King apparently wanted to find out which tastes better the Whopper of <strong>McDonald&#8217;s Big Mac<\/strong>, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/news.pl?id=32075\" target=\"_blank\">Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The campaign immediately sparked a backlash in the blogosphere and beyond, with critics claiming Burger King is exploiting poverty-stricken regions for marketing. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think indigenous people should be used in that way to amuse a bored public that wants a sensation at any price,&#8221; a commenter wrote on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gothamist.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that Peralta&#8217;s footage is extremely well shot, seemingly sincere, funny, and compelling. But working for Burger King on a project that introduces crap fast food to third world cultures seems like an incredible waste of Peralta&#8217;s immense talents. Then again we&#8217;ve never eaten a hamburger in our lives, so we&#8217;re no authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/news.pl?id=32075\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Business<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuel.tv\/FUELTVED\/blogs\/view\/4785?type=Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel.TV<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic skateboarder\/film director Stacy Peralta is getting grief from all corners for a recent commercial project commissioned by Burger King via bad-boy advertising agency Crispin Porter &#38; Bogusky in which Peralta traveled the world to find &#8220;Whopper Virgins.&#8221; Burger King apparently wanted to find out which tastes better the Whopper of McDonald&#8217;s Big Mac, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17847,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/17847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}