rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

I knew what they meant but I didn't think it was very well thought out -- it sounds like an ad for moving to the suburbs rather than for storage.

I think it means "you have all this kid junk filling your apartment now so you'll need to store some things to make room" but it vaguely pisses me off when I see it

the French Aristocracy one is just incoherent

i like it.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d38724a43272082203fe50d24f01f123/tumblr_mzefawF9YW1qhg6i3o1_400.gif

oh, lucas.
you are just a man.

hahaha, good gif

the hate for those ads is thoroughly justified

why is youtube advertising in the subway

because they're FAMOUS

I hate those ads

especially the smirky duckface cupcake

But yeah it's hard to understand who it's aimed at or what the purpose is. Youtube is like a near monopoly on internet video content as it is, is it not?

Again, they're informing us that youtube stars are FAMOUS. it's a publicity campaign for "what youtube can do" to get kids to post content in the hopes that they too will become FAMOUS

God the smirky duckface cupcake is the worst. The only thing that cancels that out is the arid unrelenting blankness of Lucas, evading her gaze, shutting down the whole situation by his casual relationship to his own totalitarian presence.

http://www.cuny.edu/news/features/all-stars/members-2013/AlekseyRuditskiy.jpg

totally fascinated by this dude

vaguely reminiscent of the inner sleeve of trans am's "ta"

http://www.colombia.travel/en/components/com_fpslideshow/images/Icolombiatravel_Cartagena_03.jpg

this is kinda nerdy copy editor shit but the "amongst" and "which" in this one drive me nuts

I mean it's supposed to be inspired by great literature ffs, just reads so awkward

also what is "The Answer Is Co" supposed to mean

lol @ "lucas touched the crystal"

especially the smirky duckface cupcake

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Monday, May 5, 2014 9:03 PM (Yesterday)

ugh i want to fucking burn those.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoGbQH-IQAM0ZFA.jpg

ffs

revolting

#powerpunchurmarketingteaminnaface

I kinda love how shitty the CG/photoshop is on the poster for the Six Flags ZUMANJARO ride. If you look at it up close it looks like a 90s rave video.

Current lamest: Febreze ads with a bunch of lame scenarios where you might want Febreze ("The guy in 3A ordered takeout!") and yet not one of them is about the fairly obvious angle of the subway itself smelling bad, as if the ad campaign started around that joke, but it got vetoed by MTA very far down the line, forcing last minute rewrites. The Paypal ads with cutesy everyday people and painfully obvious high school composition book font are also a pale shadow of Lucas's implacable, dictatorial confidence at Venmo.

you shoulda smelled the subway pre-A/C

Oh, I don't have a huge problem with the smell - it's just, if you're gonna make lame jokes about odors on a subway, make one *about the subway*. Hackwork worth doing is worth doing well.

my assumption was that the "takeout" one was originally about ethnic minorities cooking 'weird' food but was changed to be more P.C. but your scenario seems just as likely.

This is a little late, but that Expendables 3 poster is so silly. Even by the standards of these things, it is painfully obvious that nobody was ever together in the same room, the light's coming from different directions, you can see the Photoshop lasso-cut lines on Wesley Snipes's face, and I swear the number of feet just doesn't match up with the number of people. Also Arnold Schwarzenegger looks about five foot seven.

it is a funny funny poster. also it's this pile of names just jammed in all over the place.

Oh yeah, my girlfriend told me she saw one where someone had taken a Sharpie and added key numbers to match the names up with the people since they're all in random order and it's a fuckton of people/names. My kind of ad vandalism, right there.

via a friend:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1

hmm

cupcake youtube woman > head-tilty heart-gesture youtube woman

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10615507_10152203112917261_5786243552934752933_n.jpg

http://imgur.com/CbSmAic

http://i.imgur.com/CbSmAic.jpg?1

Kind of wish I took a picture of the Boxed ad emblazoned with "#datfreemembershipdoe"

http://www.cuny.edu/news/features/all-stars/members-2013/AlekseyRuditskiy.jpg

totally fascinated by this dude

vaguely reminiscent of the inner sleeve of trans am's "ta"

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:12 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah yes i told myself many stories about everyone in this ad

there was one girl who was so much more confident than everyone else i was kinda embarrassed for them

don't u live in new brunswick or something

i was in ny for a couple months last spring i think

and i commuted on the subway every day! something i m/l never did for the ~10 yrs i lived in ny, kinda sux tbh

btw i live p close to quebec but not nb

i have driven all the way across nb a number of times tho and let me tell u not a whole lot to see on that drive

Some of the other college ads (not so much the city college ads) make me feel kinda bad for the people in them, like where even the person they selected for the ad is probably not getting far with their Monroe College degree

yeah how they name their degrees weird non industry standard names "associate of technology specialist"

http://deadbutexcited.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/img_4037-1.jpg

http://4044walnut.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tech-bubble.jpg

They couldn't even come up with an actual alum success story, they had to make one up

http://www.monroe.com/images/header/english/header_logo.png

Yeah, those "how a..." ones are terrible. I can't remember what it was but there was one where it was like, did they actually do anything? Or is it just that the structure of the sentence vaguely implies changes and momentum, even if you say "How a poor farmhand from Missouri earned a degree in service technology, millked some cows, and brought in the harvest."