Sony Graffiti Ads Draw More Anger 69
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.'"
Re:So? (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Edgy? Please! (Score:2, Insightful)
They think they're being cute and getting their product into the public memespace, whatever the hell that is. They kind of are, but it's backfiring.
The problem is, it's not backfiring quickly enough to suit me. So I propose we help them. We need to co-opt and corrupt the vacant-eyed gamins, in their style, and make them completely abhorrent to the general public. Only then will Sony achieve the vicious, visceral backlash and legal ass-reaming that these jokers are begging for.....
...say. Ass-reaming? I think I know where to depict the PSP being played with in this new campaign...
Bill Hicks was right (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe Philly City Hall should focus more on... (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Whoa, What An Outrage (Score:4, Insightful)
If Microsoft did this (Score:2, Insightful)