Just curious...what would the general reaction be if some crazy fucker DID place a bunch of lite brites around a city and they DID have explosives inside. And these cute little black boxes DID explode because everyone thought they were just cute ads for a cable tv show. Don't be a asshole, no one's doing anything like that. Now can I have my shoes back? My flight leaves in five minutes.
This is one of the many predictable posts on the web that condemns the city officials for, I guess, not being caught up on their cartoon network viewing. (although I agree that at this point, Boston should just let it go) And this is a post that speaks to the growing generation gap in mass media. One that ad agencies are well aware of. Like the old saying goes...you couldn't buy this kind of press.
I can't wait to see what Interference comes up with next.
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Aporia? Of would-be marketing/would-be violence? Right. Media Studies with Professor Delula. Spring of '98. Nevermind.
But the would-be. The wanna-be. The smell of the grease-paint. The poignant familiarity of the maquillage: every marketeer's an artist, of course. Of course.
Appears the fabulously wizened figure of Walter Mitty, sporting a crown of eye-popping LEDs. (What year _is_ this?) But his wife, juggling her cell, hands him his plate of pot roast without even a glance, commiserating solemnly with Angie about Barbaro.
(Later to be found on the college lecture circuit, a little fried, bitching at the waitress about the selection of beers. As even the undergrads drift away.)
"But, my dear," he tries, looking up, "my art..."
(Art! Isn't that just precious.)
But she's in the kitchen now, spooning up the jello. Still chatting with Algernon.
I think what the Boston officials are doing might lead to a kind of "cry-wolf" situation. Most people are going to dismiss this fiasco as laughable, and officials will probably be less keen on replicating it in the future. That means if someone *does* make an IED, it'll probably be left alone as long as it has some innocuous image pasted across it.