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Sony Graffiti Ads Draw More Anger
Philly.com is running the confirmation that Sony paid a vendor to lease wallspace for their PSP graffiti ads. Philadelphia groups are slamming the ads as affronts to clean urban spaces, and the Licenses and Inspections Department in the city is planning to cite the business owner. From the article: "Jake Dobkin, copublisher of the Gothamist Web site, considers himself a street-art aficionado. He said the Sony campaign hit his SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan a few weeks ago with not only 'dozens' of spray-painted murals but 'hundreds' of posters of the same cutesy youths. He took aim at Sony for trying to dupe people like him. 'It's clearly a large campaign, and deserves a thoughtful, measured response,' he wrote on his blog. 'Here's mine: corporate graffiti sucks.'"
The awful Christmas decorations some people put up look like crap too, but we don't forbid people from putting them up on their own property, do we?
Since when is bad taste illegal?
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
They think they're being cute and getting their product into the public memespace, whatever the hell that is. They kind of are, but it's backfiring.
The problem is, it's not backfiring quickly enough to suit me. So I propose we help them. We need to co-opt and corrupt the vacant-eyed gamins, in their style, and make them completely abhorrent to the general public. Only then will Sony achieve the vicious, visceral backlash and legal ass-reaming that these jokers are begging for.....
...say. Ass-reaming? I think I know where to depict the PSP being played with in this new campaign...
You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert until you read it in the original Klingon.
... if you work in advertising, please, kill yourself. Do it for the good of everyone.
henry -- the human evolution news relay
The approximately 380 murders that have occurred in Philadelphia in 2005.
We have more murders here "per capita" than New York City. I can stand the "little sony dudes" murals if there wasn't a person being killed by gunfire every day in the streets.
Sure, Windows PCs dominate the market. But so do cheap toupees.
It's a billboard in slightly different kind of ink. Big deal. If you haven't previously noticed that advertising can be deceptive, cheapen the arts, and degrade the aesthetics of our living spaces, then you have been numbed.
I would hate to see what people would be saying if Microsoft did this for the 360, it would have made the main page, and have alot more posts all pissed at MS.