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No worries I didn't think you sounded bitchy, you're right like I said it was rather cryptic. Could've written that a lot better, was in a hurry. ;)
Now, I do hope that their idea travels and that they get to do this to other cities, like Times Square in New York, somewhere in Hong Kong and so on. I'd love to invite them to Stockholm, last time I visited there I was suprised at how many ads and ad-signs are now covering the center of town, and how BIG some of them are, things have changed a lot up there.
Pardon the delay but I did receive another reply from the journalist who wrote the Deseretnews article (which seems to be the source of all articles about this interesting enough).
He did say that Kari, the lady with the new forehead, called and invited everyone to the scene. He assumes that Goldenpalace urged her to do that because you can't buy this kind of advertising for a puny 10k.
I thought that detail was interesting, that it's not Goldenpalace sending out press releases about their strange events, but the people featured. Since everyone "bought" by GP.com, from the cleavage tattoo girl to Kari, say something along the lines: "I'm delighted that the winning bid was by GoldenPalace.com. They seem to be innovative and fun." - I'm guessing they've been instructed in what to say, at least. GP*s motto is to not mess with a good thing, the first cleavage they bought was in Florida.
So far Goldenpalace ahs won all of these Ebay bids and gotten in the paper just about every time.
From the BBC Ad breakdown article you linked:
In some respects this advert may become a classic, to rank alongside the BR promotional films and the 1980s British Rail "Relax" advert in which even the Penguin in the logo on a passenger's book dozes.
The film they are refering to is here: Intercity Relax 1988.
Heya, lookie here suddenwaffle, you made the Creativitity email. ;)
Over at Adland, a user has posted a set of "common properties of potentially destructive and dangerous cults" and suggests that they might also describe the
average ad agency. You laugh? "The cult's leaders tend to be charismatic, determined, and domineering. They persuade followers to drop their families, jobs, careers, and friends to follow them. They (not the individual) then take over control of their followers' possessions, money, lives." Not to mention the fact that you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:26:25 -0600
From: Aaron Falk
To: Åsk Wäppling
Subject: Re: Fake tattoo-ad
I actually sat in that tattoo parlor for a couple of hours. I
watched the needle hit her forehead. I watched the artist
wipe the blood away. It's the real deal, as sad as that may
be.
Thanks for the e-mail.
Sincerely,
Aaron Falk
http://deseretnews.com
Now I don't know what to think.
Right, well I can't get that crap film to load this time around but I think I heard the number "7 hours" in there are well. In the deseretnews article they also write: "In his 24 years, he's turned away a lot of customers who want to get tattoos that can't be covered up with clothing. He and his staff spent nearly seven hours Wednesday trying to talk Smith out of it."
Right. Kay. So every article carries the same number of hours and other details.. Starts looking like a regurgitated press release to me.
It make no sense that a tat-artist would spend an entire working day wasting away money he could have made just inking a couple of dolphins on ankles trying to talk a customer out of a tattoo. The tattoo-artists that I know personally all have their own mind made up and a customer will never change it - not that they represent all inkers of the world. Either they do hands and face or they don't. They don't even discuss it, if they don't (which is by far the most common), they send you on your merry way. They might give you the name of someone who does face and hands. It's not up to the customer to nag their way to it, tat-artists make up their own minds. So I find that part of the stort strange as hell.
And like you I wish the quirky news areas of papers and TV would stop bending over backwards to become free advertising time for a poorly executed stunt in very bad taste. To top it all off, an unoriginal stunt too. Ebay must love it though as they get their name on TV for free all the time thanks to these stunts.
The sites are nice.. Though I'm not quite seeing the need of having many different domains and sites (?)... I mean, atthe end of the madela speech i read "www.one.org" while I'm on stopglobalpoverty.org and that just feels strange. (might be just me that).
Oh, and wristbands? Didn't Nike do this? Are wristbands going to be the new ribbons?
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