Island Life: More billboards
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Craig, to be completely fair, and without wishing to put words in his mouth, I'm fairly sure that Kyle was talking about "our" children as in all the children of the world belong to all of us. Allegorical. Metaphorical. My white, hetero, fat arse. (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)
Ah yes, thanks Jackie. Hence the quote marks around 'our' Craig.
I can't see the use of children in political advertising as anti-'queer' or anti-same-sex-relationships if that's what you're saying Craig. As you say, not having your own children doesn't put you into some sort of 'not caring about the next generation' box.
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Ah yes, thanks Jackie. Hence the quote marks around 'our' Craig.
Fair enough, and please accept my apology for the misrepresentation of your argument. I still stand by my point: Perhaps we should leave the content-free adorable kids for selling toilet paper, and just pretend that politics is a matter for grown-ups.
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I just get rather squicky about children being used as campaign props, full stop.
That must be one hell of a squick there Craig.:) Bearing in mind, children ( all humans) are constantly used in advertising, whether TV, magazines, junk mail, shop windows ,nappies, fast/slow food etc. and that ads try to portray the image of "wont somebody think of the children", this one seems rather clever. I guess if your main focus is the environment, who better than children, to remind the voter that it is the kids who will be effected for the most part. Because they are not in the house, it does not mean they should be kept from the concerns of the Greens, so imagery is a relatively harmless point of squick (I guess)
It's also a positive advert about the party and what they stand for without attacking the other side (accurately or inaccurately). Nice to see that in politics still.
That was my impression also. I thought it's message simple and precise.
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I went out for lunch
Nuclear ships in harbour
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I think someone mentioned the distinctive way that billboard girl is looking at the camera. It is unusual to have such an active challenge, and I'm not expecting to see it anytime soon in an advert for cornflakes.
I wonder if other Green billboards will target different voters, or if different channels are being preferred for the young first-timers for instance. I expect to see more sophisticated marketing from all parties this time. Except Winston First, perhaps.
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I just found this McDonalds Airport - How not to treat staff I didn't know Whaleoil was such a leftie.
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I still stand by my point: Perhaps we should leave the content-free adorable kids for selling toilet paper, and just pretend that politics is a matter for grown-ups.
I suspect you and I both will be eagerly awaiting (with little happiness) the majority of politicians and the media acting grown-up in the next couple of months.
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I completely get the Greens billboard. I think it speaks very clearly to what the Greens stand for.
Yeah, I got it immediately. I think it's an excellent campaign that fits the Greens' brand well.
National's campaign is poor and it's hard to see how it can improve. I fully expect that they'll have to do what Labour did with the baby ads and just move on and forget it ever happened.
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I went out for lunch
Nuclear ships in harbour
I have fission ships.Tell me you've used that before? Nice work.
Though I take Craig's earlier points, I still think the Greens billboard is well within reasonable limits. My concern is not that they make a claim about the future but that, on occassion, they act as if they believe they're the only party focused on the future.
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Oh cool.
The creator of the Nats' billboards is a Libertarianz-style objectivist.
He even has a blog on the masturbation-tips website SOLO Passion, where his fellow utopians are bitching about it all.
It's genuinely funny.
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The creator of the Nats' billboards is a Libertarianz-style objectivist.
And complaining that these billboards don't go far enough -- which, somehow, I don't think John Key is losing any sleep over. :)
Anyway, I should make one point: Yes 'Daisy Redux' is very clever. I'm too big a famn of Mad Men , perhaps, but "clever" isn't always much of a compliment.
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And complaining that these billboards don't go far enough -- which, somehow, I don't think John Key is losing any sleep over. :)
Quite. But being a filthy state socialist lickspittle thingy, he would say that ...
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