what are those ads for (LDN) 2929 Responses

Last post: 1 month, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Sep 25, 08, 9:41 a.m.

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• max_prophet

  Maybe I've missed something, but there's lots of ads on the tube platforms, in carriages, in the metro… black backgrounds and photos, one of obama outside no 10. one of a golden football, one of a fat kid, one of the hardon collider…

  and that's it, no text at all… some kind of teaser campaign.

  I assume its for some kind of newspaper/ news channel.

  ?

  Sep 25, 08, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink

• skt

  yeah, been wondering myself.

  unless it's just part of "art on the underground"

  there is a little bit of text, but it's just the photographers name and the subject.

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 9:45 a.m. – Permalink

• skt

  actually, if it's in the metro, art on the underground doesn't make much sense. fuck knows.

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 9:46 a.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  does that make it underground art?

  • the metro is a free paper.– max_prophet

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 9:48 a.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  Whatever it is you can be sure that you'll feel really fucking angry at investing so much interest in something that starts out as intriguing and esoteric and ends up as a campaign for ING Variables.

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 9:48 a.m. – Permalink

• max_prophet

  you're not wrong.

  Its probably fox news coming to the uk or something awful.

  • ogod no.– era4O4

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 9:49 a.m. – Permalink

• capsize

  "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you."

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 9:51 a.m. – Permalink

• max_prophet

  oh I forgot about this thread… so they were for The Times newspaper afterall.

  They must have spent a fortune on advertising recently, can't get away from the damn thing

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:19 a.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  ^ Told you.

  • Just googled for them but can't find anything. Would liek to see. Are they 'cool' or 'shit'?– SkyPoo

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:19 a.m. – Permalink

• kezza_2

  The times

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:44 a.m. – Permalink

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:48 a.m. – Permalink

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• kezza_2

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bra…

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:53 a.m. – Permalink

• Bluejam

  "LONDON - The Independent has launched a quick response to The Times' £3m mystery images ad campaign with its own bizarre images, including an exploding planet, boasting that it is ahead of The Times. "

  http://www.brandrepublic.com/New…

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:54 a.m. – Permalink

• kezza_2

  ^ became

  

  

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• SkyPoo

  I find these odd. They're almost the antipathy of respectable reporting. They're using cheap Photoshop tricks to show us things that clearly aren't real. Its actually more like anti-news.

  I'm really confused, and not in anyway that would leave the marketing people satisfied that they'd done a good job.

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:57 a.m. – Permalink

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• SkyPoo

  Oh wait... is the Cameron Churchill one merely Cameron stood in front of an oil painting of Churchill?... so these are actual shots then, of things that actually happened, not photoshop montages? That makes more sense I guess.

  Carry on.

  • It still feels anti news though somehow, as though the message is "Reportage is over-rated, look at these...– SkyPoo1/2

    ... lovely pictures!"– SkyPoo2/2

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 3:59 a.m. – Permalink

• max_prophet

  Yeah I found them a bit over-dramatic and … almost parodyesque

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 08, 4:01 a.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  Talking Loud, Sayin’ Nothin...

  

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