The Art of Advertising

[Leo]

I couldn't sell a winter coat to an eskimo.

 

[entertainment]

it's always weird seeing the ads when you haven't watched tv in ages and you're cold on the absurdity of it all

 

[entertainment]

i was a copywriter for 4 months. i guess if you find a place with people who are on the same wavelength about what you're doing it can be a fun job, but the place i was at was full of despicaple people, just the worst

 

[woops]

i was a copywriter for 4 months. i guess if you find a place with people who are on the same wavelength about what you're doing it can be a fun job, but the place i was at was full of despicaple people, just the worst

People like @Corpsey ???

 

[Leo]

It's tolerable if you just think of it as a job: you go in, create some content that you think will help your client, and go home to enjoy your life. What makes it intolerable are the art directors who are frustrated artists and filmmakers, and copywriters who are frustrated novelists and opinion writers. They either seethe and whine all day about how no one appreciates their true genius artistic talent, or try to infuse that genius artistic talent into an ad selling life insurance or candy bars. Pompous fuckers.

 

[entertainment]

People like @Corpsey ???

exactly

 

[version]

I read a bunch of Paul Schrader articles yesterday and in one of them he argued a benefit of doing adverts as a director is the opportunity to play around and try things out in a much less pressured environment than a movie set.

 

[IdleRich]

Kinda like library music for filmmakers

 

[woops]

I read a bunch of Paul Schrader articles yesterday and in one of them he argued a benefit of doing adverts as a director is the opportunity to play around and try things out in a much less pressured environment than a movie set.

I thought this was what music videos are for

 

[luka]

 

[version]

I've seen these too. They're pretty odd.





Another one I saw recently was an advert for Birds Eye meat-free chicken dippers with a kid and their mother on a bench and the kid asking about their food then suddenly going "Why are you afraid of change?" and taking this strange, passive aggressive tone while the mother looks terrified then it's just like "Birds Eye. Welcome to the Plant Age,".

 

[WashYourHands]

Daisy daisy daisy daisy daisy

Some kind of satanic ritual in among its horror, daisy daisy daisy DAISEY DAISEY DAISEY

 

[WashYourHands]

where did those e’s come from?

see, it’s happening

 

[version]

I think people are probably right in saying that one's influenced by Midsommar.

 

[WashYourHands]

daisy daisy daisy daisy daisy, sound of impending bulimia

might be the apex for vacuous catchy perfume ad rites

 

[Leo]

you realize the soundtrack is "Cheree"

 

[Leo]

I think they're all kinda cool.

 

[version]

you realize the soundtrack is "Cheree"

Yeah.

 

[Leo]

Not surprising or off-brand for Jacobs, really. He always had one foot in the downtown scene, used to hang out with Kim Gordon.

 

[version]