Far be it for me to not jump on the bandwagon which seems to be spreading through the Web like a bad case of fleas on a mutt.
Here are my observations of this very humorous CGC creation:
1) It was created by a bloke by the name of Scott Kelby, who - according to his very humble website - is editor in chief of photoshop user magazine. Bottom line is that this is a pretty damn good way to generate some business through dramatic increased traffic to one's website, no?
2) It was posted on nytimes.com and seemingly was ONLY available on NYTimes. What an interesting turn of events to see something this viral being distributed through a MSM outlet like this. [insert your own thoughts here] I did manage to find a Quicktime version of it (linkable via the graphic)
3) This isn't the first time iPod has been "spoofed" - the first of course was George Masters's iPod ad, which introduces another fresh thought....it takes something exceptionally good (or bad) to get spoofed/picked up virally. Good news for creatives, premium brands, dontchathink?
4) The message itself (lest we forget entire about the message, in favor of the medium and the mode) is a poignant commentary of corporate greed and the endless fix of line extension or in this case, line reduction (shrinkage, quite literally)
Or maybe I'm reading way too much into this :)
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