River North, Chicago
I hate these ads. This was on a bus stop on LaSalle.
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Something Annoying
January 31st, 2006 · 8 Comments
Washington Red Line Station, The Loop, Chicago
What bothers me about this ad for Something New (even though I heard the movie might be good):
1. At first it looks like the names of each actor are above their heads, but if you stand there and look at it for a while while waiting for the train, you realize that they’re not. I don’t know a lot of the actors in the movie, but Blair Underwood‘s name not being above his head was my first tipoff. Then when I looked up the movie online I realized that the two stars of the movie, shown in the center, are actually the first two names listed on the top left. Somehow this doesn’t sit right with me.
2. There are 8 people pictured in the ad and there are 9 names. I went crazy trying to figure out who the extra name was but gave up when a bunch of them didn’t have their photos in IMDB and it became to hard.
3. The ad is supposed to look like a group shot, but it’s obvious from looking at it and looking at other ads online for the movie that they were photographed in groups of 2 or 3 or singly.
I don’t know why these things were grating on me so badly, but don’t get me started on the Dr. Phil ad next to it.
Tags:ad·blair underwood·Chicago·movies·red line·something new·the loop
Shampoozled
October 21st, 2005 · 6 Comments
Shampoozled, Wicker Park, Chicago
Usually when there’s guerrilla marketing like this, you look it up online and can see who the ad if for. In this case, I can’t figure out from the Shampoozled site who painted these ads around Wicker Park. It’s for a “leading brand of shampoo”.
I’ve seen some Dove ads lately, that look nothing like Shampoozled, that lead me to believe these ads are for Dove shampoo. They go on about how Dove leaves the oil in your hair. .. which kind of grosses me out. Like, why do they have to say “oil” and why can’t they just say it leaves “moisture” in your hair or something? Gross.
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September 5th, 2003 · 8 Comments
Kaleidoscope Fun
February 25th, 2003 · Comments Off
Apple geeks will recognize this to be Janie Porche from one of the switch ads. I took this photograph of her print ad through a kaleidoscope.