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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: esteban on November 22, 2005, 09:09:38 PM
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For two weeks, all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos disappeared from a street in Vienna, Austria (Summer 2005):
http://www.steinbrener-dempf.com/
The artist explains how the normally "chaotic" and "disjointed" landscape, littered as it was with advertisements, became clean and soothing for 2 weeks!
Awesome.
Also, this reminds me: I was reading about some famous American pioneer in advertising (he was really successful in 40's - 60's). Anyway, he said that in the future, our citiyscapes and landscapes will be so littered with advertisements that developers will create private "ad-free" zones. He felt that folks would pay for the luxury of living, dining and playing in these ad-free zones.
I don't think he's that crazy. I'm just hoping that we'll have public "ad-free" zones as well (put our tax money to good use, for once).
:)
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Interesting...
Oh, who was the pioneer you mentionned in your post?
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Interesting...
Oh, who was the pioneer you mentionned in your post?
I'll find it for you. I think I was reading a book about Walt Disney, or a book about Marshall McLuhan. Anyway, this advertising guru was mentioned in passing... but I loved his ideas. He was keenly aware of what he was doing (colonizing / commercializing landscapes and soundscapes) and how this affected society.
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Hah, that opening was pretty cool.