Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
Virginia Tourism, NPS, “Art” and Advertising Money
”courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
You may have noticed the sculpture of the word “LOVE” erected in Dupont Circle last week. While it was billed as an art installation, it was actually part of an ad blitz done for the Virginia Tourism campaign, and the Park Service isn’t happy at all about being lied [...]
A Good Way To Spend Lunch
‘Hipster PDA’
courtesy of ‘koalazymonkey’
Got time for a long lunch? Then head over to the Center for Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA) on Friday, October 30th from 12-2pm to check out “Art & Copy,” a documentary about advertising and innovation that includes some of the industry’s greatest minds, like George Lois, Mary Wells, Cliff Freeman, Dan Wieden, [...]
Star Trek Video Ad at Farragut West Metro
Metro now features video ads in stations, the first of which is a 15-second trailer for the upcoming Star Trek XI: The Wrath of the Franchise Reboot, silently flashed onto the Farragut West Metro entryway wall by a ceiling-mounted projector. Metro Marketing Director Mark Rydstrom says “In the words of Mr. Spock, we hope this [...]
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Dental Ad on Metro with Obama Lookalike Originally uploaded by brownpau
I was about to comment on this earlier but Life Outtacontext beat me to it: doesn’t this guy in a stock photo on the DC Dental Spa billboard ad in various Metro stations look just like a white version of Barack Obama? I do a [...]
Missing Tunnel Ad
Remember animated tunnel ads and how cool and innnovative it was to have moving pictures advertising stuff to you in Metro tunnels? I wonder why lately there hasn’t been a tunnel ad movie between Metro Center and Gallery Place? Are there just no clients? Was it because the novelty of it all just wasn’t enough [...]
More »“Hella Cost”
Judging by the graffiti on this Metro train ad for Global Impact, there’s an Orange Line rider somewhere out there who (1) hates African aid groups because of secret genocide conspiracies, (2) has a Sharpie, and (3) is unsure of the spelling of “holocaust.”
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Vault Life! (Fallout 3 in DC)
How awesome is it that we have Vault-themed ads for Fallout 3 on the Metro?
For those not in the know, Fallout is a series of turn-based adventure/role-play games set in the barren wasteland of a post-apocalyptic anarchy, where you play a survivor newly emerged from an isolated subterranean bunker called The Vault. DC-focused trailer video [...]
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Metro Nesquik AdOriginally uploaded by brownpau
The current zoetrope-style tunnel ad between Gallery Place/Chinatown and Judiciary Square features the NesQuik Bunny telling you to go to your happy place.
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