You guys heard about these shennanigans yet? It seems a couple of greasy artist-type marketrs advertising for the "Aqua Team Hunger Force" movie placed several lightboards with this na'er-do-well on them a few weeks ago. I thought it was a fairly weak stab at guerrilla marketing, but apparently someone mistook them for an explosive devise and a whole hulabaloo has arisen. Charges have been filed. 9/11 was invoked. Yuck. Terrorism at its silliest. Anyway, read all about it on CNN. (After all, CNN's parent company is behind it all.)
Thursday, February 1, 2007
You guys heard about these shennanigans yet? It seems a couple of greasy artist-type marketrs advertising for the "Aqua Team Hunger Force" movie placed several lightboards with this na'er-do-well on them a few weeks ago. I thought it was a fairly weak stab at guerrilla marketing, but apparently someone mistook them for an explosive devise and a whole hulabaloo has arisen. Charges have been filed. 9/11 was invoked. Yuck. Terrorism at its silliest. Anyway, read all about it on CNN. (After all, CNN's parent company is behind it all.)
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These crazy tech nerds...
I thought it was interesting that the advertisement had been on display in LA, Chicago, NY and other big cities, with no incidences. But it caused such a stir in Boston.
i thought the same thing betsey. this same campaign was in all the other major cities, and for some reason 5 bostonians simultaniously called in "suspicious technically advanced devices" or whatever they were calling them. its a light-bright for hells sakes. are you kidding me? and they are going to try and press charges? outlandish!
-ryan
ps, please forgive me for any grammatical or spelling errors.
let me also add as a counterpoint, i also feel it was in irrisponsible advertising campaign. unconventional can be good, but considering the size and reputation of the company they were representing, it might have been a bit overboard. anyway. crazy stuff
-ryan
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