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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?
hmm.. Dunno what photographer you mean, but that suddenly reminded me of this guy who photographs ad-signs hovering in the air - by photoshopping away the poles the hold them up. Looks kinda like UFO's attacking then. Also, he did a project called the untitled project where "the photographs have been digitally stripped of all traces of textual information"
Also somewhat related; Los Logos
Loslogos.org, wants to protect, or at least conserve the graphic appearance of the world
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