quote:Originally posted by Bill Oddie: Out of interest, anyone seen the cubes exibit in the turbine hall at Tate Modern? Saw some photo's and that looks pretty amazing.
I'm not a fan of modern 'art' at the best of times, but I was thinking about seeing this... That is until I read an interview with the 'artist' that the cubes were made from casts of seperate cardboard boxes, chosen for their "character"....
Twat.
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Wouldn't it have been great if the bouncy balls have gathered so much height and speed during their fall that they smashed windows and killed pensioners with solid rubber sounding thwacks and as they all came to a slow, continuous but winding down bouncing motion the street is left littered with a debris of glass and corpses? The director, stood on top of the hill thinking 'oh shit'
quote:Originally posted by scrawny: - The song they cut the film to, Heartbeats by the wonderful Jose Gonzales, is using the ad as its video when it gets released
What do you mean getting released -- hasn't it been released already? It's, like, a decade old. Well, no, but Jose Gonzales' version is at least two years old -- I remember listening to it in my old flat and that was forever ago. The song was written by Swedish couple-band The Knife. I don't believe they had any distribution in the UK until around 18 months ago. They are ace, actually. I would even recommend them to some people.
Maybe that's all a bit of an exaggeration -- I just don't see why it's getting released now.
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Rereleased, oh musical bloodhound.
They're putting it out again because a whole bunch of people are going to see the ad and want to buy it I assume.
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There could be only two reasons for statist asking a question like that:
1.) He doesn't know how promotion works (unlikely)
or
2.) He wants to say in so many words "Look at me everyone! I am so cutting edge cool I have heard of this song years ago and liked it so much then but it's fucking rubbish now everyone is listening to it. Kneel beneath your musical god. If I'm still into kneeling by the time this post goes out that is"
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I tell what I can't stand, is those fucking mint adverts. "Is that Jenkins riding bareback on the word mint?". The way that the guy is in the locker room, talking with his colleague about a business deal that went wrong, but the girl is talking about a date with a man with a funny shaped nose. Grrrrr! It's so fucking "ho ho ho" and twee and artless, it makes my blood boil.
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The one I hate is the 'Wildbean Cafe' one where a woman says to a man as she gets out of his car 'Coming in for a coffee' and he turns his nose up and says 'Er, NO' and drives off to get a coffee from a service station.
1) She's not offering coffee, she's offering sex, and if you're trying to say that a cup of coffee from a BP garage is better than the old 'in/out', then you are a bit fucked up.
2) Okay, so maybe's she's just offering coffee. HOW DOES HE KNOW WHAT KIND OF COFFEE SHE HAS? She might work for BP and have loads of this Wildbean shit, and then you could work on the shag.
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These days I can only really stomach infommercials, because they don't try and appeal to people's sense of superiority. I can watch them and feel superior in peace, without being constantly made aware that I will never earn enough money to come into the target market for anything other than Claims Direct or Diet coke. All those volkswagon ads, where suit and sweater wearing men prove their intelligence and social/professional/family credentials via the smart purchase of a quality yet discreet car make me, literally, want to grab the well groomed protagonists by their mid range designer shirt collars and punch them full in the face. Really punch them square in their fucking noses.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: mint adverts
I love the way these have the wee tagline 'What's stopping you from getting one?' (or something like that) as though OBVIOUSLY deep-seated pychological dread is to blame and not the fact that their STUPID SHAPED CARD is not accepted in ANY CASH MACHINE, ANYWHERE and is consequently UTTERLY USELESS.
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Also: that Guinness advert with the horses/surfers - what a load of wank. What sort of easily-swayed aesthetic cretin would vote for that shite? It isn't even the best Guinness advert, let alone the best 'paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor' of all time.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: what a load of wank
An even larger load of wank would be the fact that you all watch these adverts willingly. Nobody's making you watch them ya know. Turn off the tv. Problem solved. Posts: 7436
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I don't know which agency Guinness uses, but it is quite witty. I like the recent series of adverts for Guinness Cold or whatever it's called, which basically recycled existing concepts with the extra-added-cold bit. I particularly like the Eskimo dancing, but then I always had a soft spot for the original version.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: The Honda advert will never be bettered.
is that the one where the terrorists pull up and blew themselves up, but the car is so good it doesn't blow up?
cuz that one rocked... so did the ford [i think] one where the sun roof decapitated the cat.... class!
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No the one where all the little bits of car all move along in a sequence, over ramps and stuff.
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The one Sabian is talking about was for Volkswagen. Ringo, the one you're talking about is called Cog.
Ben, the new Guinness advert is here. Whaddya think?
Benway is right - their agency is AMV BBDO who have held the account for years, and also, the Sony ad is so unbelievably beautiful that it will overcome all your fear of advertising. It's just genuinely clever and genuinely cool to look at.
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Oh, and Sabian my mate made the cat one - Ford were NOT happy...
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: An even larger load of wank would be the fact that you all watch these adverts willingly. Nobody's making you watch them ya know. Turn off the tv. Problem solved.
So - what? - you watch tv poised with your remote, ready to switch off at the merest threat of an advert? And when you walk down the street, do you clap your hands to your eyes whenever a billboard or a poster hoves into view?
I can't believe I'm hearing such bullshit. What did I do to deserve to be bullshat like this?
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quote:Originally posted by Waynster: You got yourself a PDA dude? Ace! What did you get?
Dude, check your gmail from like 4 weeks ago! I got the M2000
Those things I was sending you to in yer gmail... I have more (4.5gb) of them if you so desire.
quote:Originally posted by scrawny: Oh, and Sabian my mate made the cat one - Ford were NOT happy...
Shhh... From what I heard, Ford are 'looking' for them! Though, this was a few months ago so they probably already found them and gave them a smack!
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That'll be the Orange version of the one I've got (O2 XDAIIi) then Sab. If it's anything like mine, you'll like it for a while, then get sick of the fact it crashes all the time.
That 'cog' advert, the full version, is probably the best advert ever made, for numerous reasons.
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