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[challenge entry] if advertisments were REALLY honest...

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(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:47, archived)
# excuse me while i say
fan-fucksock-tastic



truly excellent.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:49, archived)
# Glad someone got it
it's been annoying me all week.
(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:52, archived)
# Too true
Who cares about a lump of old wood, I know which one I'd rather win... mind you the old Design awards help with the mortgage I'd imagine
(Plum Pidgeon, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:51, archived)
# that's a huge pencil
(am I missing something here?...)
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:53, archived)
# Sorry, Its an advertising in-joke
The pencil is a D&AD award, probably the most respected advertising and design award in the world, like the Oscars for ads...
(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:55, archived)
# ah ha
sort of. Er .. are you saying b3ta makes the award irrelevant?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:58, archived)
# Yes,
Although the standard of the entries has been rather, how you say, mixed? I find it a little frustrating. It's like adbusters when the spoof ads are worse that the original ads themselves. And another thing! If i see another car=penis ad I shall scream! (gets of soapbox, hides in corner, screaming)
(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:02, archived)
# yep. the standard is always mixed ...
... that's the nature of allowing everyone and their donkey to enter. It's more fun that way tho.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:05, archived)
# The trouble is...
...not everyone can use an art package very well. But most people can handle the text tool. I wish I'd thought of that earlier.
(Glis, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:05, archived)
# Hah, good point!
I think Worth1000.com bans images with text. I read their FAQ once, intending to join, but they sounded like such tightasses, that I just couldn't bring myself. No dokomun, no chimps, etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Artamnesia, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:09, archived)
# their technical quality is brilliant
but I don't give a shit about technique. I like stuff that makes me laugh.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:11, archived)
# The photoshopping is fine
I mean the standard of the idea. I do adverts for a living and that and i'm finding it rather frustrating is all...
(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:11, archived)
# Why
is it frustrating?
(Glis, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:21, archived)
# Because they aren't very good
10 -15 word headlines. Cars are willies. Soft drinks are evil. Sunny delight is evil? How? it's just a drink? Its just a bandwagon upon which any pseudo-worthy "i'm against big corporations and capitalism and that"

saying that the tampax "got the painters in?" ad is genuinley funny. That could run in Australia (but not in the uk)
(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:28, archived)
# I don't think the sanitary product ones have been funny really
some of them have been verging on misogyny in my mind.

I think you're getting a little het up over this, I know advertising is not the route of all evil (spesh when they pay me), but it is worthy of having the fun poked at it. The ones that have done that well have been genuinely funny.

Chill out.
(Mattyboy, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:33, archived)
# like all challenges we do, the entries will be
A. brilliantly funny
B. Raise a smile
C. "I see what you're getting at but"
D. "I've seen that joke before and done better"
E. made by a retard who doesn't understand the question
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:33, archived)
# I generally go for
E
(Mattyboy, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:37, archived)
# Then again,
Anyone who REALLY thought about it realised that, and tried to avoid such pitfalls.

I made two entries; one animated to resemble an online ad, and then other static with almost no words on it at all.

I've no idea if mine are of any quality, but I did think about them.

In the real advertising world, only a small percentage of adverts are actually any good anyway, so if nothing else, this does reflect life ;)
(Glis, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:35, archived)
# I'm with Rob on this
I've found this one of the most amusing challenges over all. Yes, there has been a lot of unoriginality (car / penis, isn't it funny that girls have period etc.), but for laughter, this one's a goodie.

And for me, having a laugh is what b3ta's about, not graphics design.

Just my view though...
(Mattyboy, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:26, archived)
# Erm...
Just the current challenge I think.

/me wanders off into the corner, and ponders slitting wrist for suggesting it now.
(Glis, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:04, archived)
# nah
I really like this challenge. It's a great one - it's been really lively and less in-jokey. It reaches out and asks people to comment on their culture, rather than the inward looking photoshop a donkey stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:07, archived)
# Thanks!
I feel slightly better now.

I did a quick check through the subject lines of the emails received by the staff where I administer the network, and found that the email with entries that have been doing the rounds have made it here and around most of the company.

So I'm in essence clogging up my own system with spam.

I guess I can be proud enough with that.
(Glis, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:09, archived)
# yep
I was sent them too. Which was nice.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:14, archived)
# Its just a bit adbusters
Id much rather photoshop a donkey, but then i come up with ads for a living and come to B3ta for a break. I find myself getting quite angry at the low standard of the entries
(I helped save b3ta! mikemystery blames the parents, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:15, archived)
# Then again
Any site that gets popular ends up getting a very mixed bag of quality levels.

I'm happy to take that though on the whole, because technical quality doesn't mean a thing.

Hell, if that was the case, the Far Side probably wouldn't have made it into Publication.
(Glis, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:18, archived)
# then show us how it's done!
make the best stuff in the world.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 19:18, archived)
# I'm a thicko
what is this saying?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:53, archived)
# Whut he said,
dont geddit...?
(My Name Here, Wed 15 Jan 2003, 18:55, archived)