By: mikeh
Ah, so it's a homegrown advertisement much in the way that Calvin pissing on the Ford logo on my back window is an advertisement for General Motors.
View ArticleBy: Mister_A
mikeh, he may be one of these people who thinks that typing and writing are the same thing.
View ArticleBy: mikeh
If the guy's a copywriter, how come the copy on these public service announcements is so bad? I smell a conspiracy.
View ArticleBy: Mister_A
It's wrong to appropriate the organization's name to publicize these wanky little ads. This copywriter is just jerking off. Why didn't he comp this stuff up and pitch it to enviro groups 'til one of...
View ArticleBy: Goofyy
I'm Goofyy, and I approve of this message. I think given this topic, the shocking use of the f-bomb is highly appropriate. If folks didn't use the word so casually, it would have a better impact.
View ArticleBy: ottereroticist
This ad is appealing to the crudest level of machismo honor culture, where the idea of someone fucking your mother is supposed to be some kind of intolerable insult. (What if my mom likes to get...
View ArticleBy: Bixby23
Whatever. Laurie Anderson is right. Yup, language is a walrus. Hey, isn't that an old Greenpeace slogan?
View ArticleBy: Effigy2000
I'm starting an ad campaign for Metafilter without Matts knowledge. It's called 'Metafilter: Beating you black, blue, green and grey." I have a team of lowly interns trying to work out how to include...
View ArticleBy: ZachsMind
So the anti-abortionists can use pictures of fetuses to get their point across, but a little profanity and a picture of an oil rig drilling into mother Earth is over the top? Whatever. Laurie Anderson...
View ArticleBy: jonp72
Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, 'cause y'all have knocked her up.
View ArticleBy: taursir
What if Greenpeace knows, but it's such a good idea that they're going through all this red tape to fake it coming from someone else, to gain attention they otherwise wouldn't with just producing this...
View ArticleBy: graventy
If you're going to make an illegal ad campaign for a cause you believe in, at least do a good job. The ad's aren't funny. That comma, sucks.
View ArticleBy: culturemaven
Maybe the copywriter is a mole of some sort, an employee of Big Oil, who infiltrated the ad agency? Maybe his daddy owns a lumber company? Is the guy's name Oedipus by any chance?
View ArticleBy: lupus_yonderboy
Interesting set of responses. I'm not trying to be contrarian when I say that I liked the campaign a lot. I think it's extremely memorable and I think that in a visceral way it sinks home that...
View ArticleBy: XQUZYPHYR
Oh goody, a real-world self-linker. "Greenpeace can just delete it if it breaks the rules!" Jesus, does this dumbfuck have any idea what "protection of trademark" means? They have to sue him for using...
View ArticleBy: dirtynumbangelboy
Dude this isn't promoting Greenpeace's cause. It's making them look like idiots. As if they need help with that.
View ArticleBy: eriko
And for the record, drjimmy11, I think that Greenpeace is a lot more level-headed and reasonable than some of our elected officials. And the award for left-handed compliment of the year goes to....
View ArticleBy: leftcoastbob
This is just wrong. And for the record, drjimmy11, I think that Greenpeace is a lot more level-headed and reasonable than some of our elected officials.
View ArticleBy: drjimmy11
well, there goes Greenpeace's hard-earned reputation as level-headed, reasonable people!
View ArticleBy: Flashman
Dude this isn't promoting Greenpeace's cause. It's making them look like idiots.
View ArticleBy: crackingdes
I'm sorta more offended by the gratuitous comma usage than I am by the F-bomb.
View ArticleBy: Plutor
*Starts up Photoshop to make "Who's fucking your non-profit organization's reputation?" ad campaign*
View ArticleWho's boning your mother?
Greenpeace doesn't know it has a new ad campaign that asks "Who's f***ing Mother Earth," but their logo is on it. The copywriter admits he hasn't told the organization yet about the ads he's designed...
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