First of all, the three images above are the other photos that we stumbled across of Jessica and White Mike vandalizing downtown Oklahoma City. According to a (now removed) post from White Mike’s website, the photographs were actually taken with Jessica Alba’s camera. Here’s a screenshot of his original post:
Hmmn. Lets take a look a something. According to White Mike…
• The pictures were taken with Jessica Alba’s camera
• She “has a passion for sharks.”
• She offered to “come and get dirty in the trenches”
Call me crazy, but White Mike’s statement doesn’t seem to support Alba’s claim that she was “not thinking things through before I made a spontaneous and ill-advised decision to let myself get involved with the people behind this campaign.” If anything, this looks like a well planned and orchestrated decision. Seriously, since when does someone spontaneously fly to Oklahoma City to meet Jessica Alba and happen to bring with them a dozen great white shark posters and heavy duty glue? That has to take some planning right? It’s not like we have a 24 hours Hobby Lobby located in downtown OKC with those supplies readily available.
Anyway, maybe it’s time for Jessica Alba to issue a more appropriate apology. Perhaps even a truthful and honest one. If she doesn’t want to do that, maybe she can just throw on a white tank top and and some cutoff jeans and clean off the posters using a water hose and bucket of soap. Hell, we could even spin it as an anti-graffiti campaign. That would be good publicity for everyone.
You know, everyone is making fun of Alba for trying to raise awareness for the preservation of sharks by plastering posters in downtown Oklahoma City, but I’m pretty sure the profile of the cause has been raised.
I hear white shark is delicious.
tastes like chicken
The whole thing is so weird, but at any rate, it brings to mind a post I read a week or two ago by the Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk. She wrote about how newspapers have to disclose conflicts of interest, but bloggers don’t. She is paid to blog about certain products and doesn’t disclose it like Jennifer Garner (she suggests) was paid to walk around pregnant with a Starbucks cup in hand.
So, the question I have is, did someone pay Jessica Alba?
Oh, and I’m a little late to the table on this whole thing, but did they come to OKC because of off-shore drilling by local energy companies?
She is here filming a movie. By the way she will be at Cattleman’s today fiming some scenes. Had lunch there and they were telling everybody.
I have had the chance to think through the resolution of this issue. Jessica Alba is trying to raise awareness. Great. Her vandalism fine should be sufficient to pay to set up a Great White tank and exhibit at the aquarium in Jenks. And she should have Jack Russell and Mark Kendall fly out for the dedication.
Then the Oklahoma State House can vote against the exhibit and the dedication because the album name “Rising” sounds too much like getting an erection.
She really should have done some research about Oklahoma first. If she had, she would have realized the proper approach would have been to teabag (somehow??) a great white on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capital. Had she done this the majority of the state as well as Bill O’Reilly would have backed her 100%.
I’m not sure, Clark — you’re right in that people are more aware of this cause, but is it in a good way? Celebrities may believe there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but are charitable causes as well-served by connections to Hollywood air-heads acting in an air-headed fashion?
If all I knew about shark preservation efforts came from the hoopla surrounding Ms. Alba’s actions, I’d know that she was working on behalf of people who figured Oklahoma City was a good place to drum up support for shark preservation and that they figured a good way to do that was to deface a billboard belonging to a local charitable organization that raised money for *people* in need right down the street. I can’t say I’d feel all that confident in the fiscal prudence of an organization that saw that as a good marketing campaign.
And will the public stir these actions caused last beyond the next Darwin-defying stunt some notorious walking vacancy sign pulls in front of a camera, whether in the name of a cause or just because his or her other neuron happened to be on vacation that night? My guess is no.
I agree with Clark. There is no bad publicity.
Can’t we just thank her for bringing a little life to those utility boxes and move on?
And you can’t have a great white shark exhibit at an aquarium. Anyone who has seen Jaws 3 knows that!
Admittedly, this week I’ve spent the most time of my life thinking of sharks. So the campaign worked.
Kind of.
I side with Police Chief Martin Brody on the issue of Great White Sharks.
Clone a Great White Shark while altering its chromosomes so it can survive in fresh water and then release it in lake Hefner. That would raise Oklahoma’s awareness.
“But then why all this booze? And these crude pornographic photos smeared with mustard that had dried to a hard yellow crust? These were not the hoofprints of your average God-fearing junky. It was too savage. Too aggressive.”
-Fear and Loathing in OKC
+1 on the Pinky Swear.
Are these posters still up?
If Roy Scheider were still alive I’d like to see Jessica Alba explain to him how saving great white sharks is a good cause considering all the hundreds of thousands of people great white sharks eat every year. I think death by great white is now #3 behind cancer and heart disease. “Quint” would not approve either.
“I’m not talkin’ ’bout pleasure boatin’ or day sailin’. I’m talkin’ ’bout workin’ for a livin’. I’m talkin’ ’bout sharkin’!”
I have never seen a video clip of a great white shark ripping the intestines out of a baby seal on Animal Planet and thought to myself…”Damnit, I wish there were more of those things out there”.
Which brings me to my next point:
Which do you love more?
Sharks or Baby Seals???
Make up your mind Hollywood…
Be honest, that’s exactly what why you were watching Animal Planet in the first place.