I loathe ads like this
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You’re sad that Lou Reed died, so you frown. A banana in that position looks like a frown. There was a banana on the cover of a famous Velvet Underground album.
This is like newborn apes scrawling ads on trees with their own filth.
I might be wrong, but isn’t that a magazine cover instead of an ad?
http://www.bestadsontv.com/ad/58206/Rolling-Stone-Tribute-To-Lou-Reed
I don’t think Rolling Stone would be crass and witless enough to have a cover like that, but their Italian ad agency might be.
Isn’t it a sad mouth rather than a frown?
If he wasn’t you know like totally dead Lou Reed would be turning in his grave.
Wizzer: I suppose so. It’s now 0.000000% better.
Slow day, Ben, eh?
Annoyingly, they all move at the same speed.
Neil Dawson likes it:
http://www.bestadsontv.com/news/blog.php?id=23535
Just to liven things up; have you noticed how many creatives are leaving Mother? More like a flood than a trickle. What’s going on? Who is to blame?
It’s now 4:47
Advertising snobbery!
I think it’s alright, personally.
It’s not different to the celebrated(I may be wrong?) Steve Jobs stuff that came out surely.
A magazine can’t be sad. It’s a magazine. It’s the usual boring baby boomer hubris. Take no heroes, only inspiration.
Neil doesn’t say anything nice about the ad. That’s because it’s a shitty attempt by a desperate outpost of a massive international network to create an opportunistic Cannes winner.
I remember talking to the very lovely Mark Borkowski once. He asked me what i did, and i replied advertising.
His reply was ‘Ah…advertising, it’s just like hairdressing’.
How right he was.
Reminds me of the stuff you’ll see smeared over the walls of Canary Wharf, hot in anticipation of next years Cannes bash.
It’s the fundamental failure to ‘get’ Lou that gets me. A pastiche of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photo of arse with a whip stuck in it, with Jann Wenner and the Warholian banana proving worthy replacements would have been more to his approval.
That’s what I mean: it’s so fundamentally NOT a tribute to Lou, because he’d have thought it was a witless pile of shit.
“Anonymous wrote:
Reminds me of the stuff you’ll see smeared over the walls of Canary Wharf, hot in anticipation of next years Cannes bash.”
So why does it keep winning then?
Placement team
🙁
Why does what win? Ogilvy?
Because it’s playing the game and the game, in case you were wondering, is a completely and utterly fucked one. A circle-jerk of irrelevance, featuring either the untalented and cynical or the misguided and naive, I don’t know which.