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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.'"
Just go round and spray $sys$ infront of all the adverts.
Complaining won't work. Spraypaint swastikas on the ads, they'll be erased in no time.
(not that they're nazis, but swastikas always get the clean-up crews in action.)
Trolling is a art,
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
... 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.
Exec #1: Well, our ads aren't getting enough people to buy our PSPs. What can we do?
Exec #2: We can improve the product, give it better battery life, better screen, like Nintendo did with the GBA SP!
(All execs laugh at him.)
Exec #3: We could try to keep it real in the hizzouse with graffiti! We'd license space on corporate buildings and spraypaint these awesome tags on the wall! We'd be the hippest gangstas on the planet and get more urban punks to buy our stuff!
Exec #1: Marvelous idea! We'll do that, whatever he said.
Exec #2: WTF.
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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.