Crossposting:
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What about propaganda for a fake company called Discordicorp? Would that be something people would be interested in?
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/discordicorp2.jpg)
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(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/discordicorp4.jpg)
Thoughts, anyone, before I keep going?
How do you want to use them? If you Want them realistic you may need some more effective design program.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on April 19, 2012, 02:08:27 AM
How do you want to use them? If you Want them realistic you may need some more effective design program.
Oh, certainly. I'm no graphic designer, merely a womper. If someone with better skill at graphic design wanted to run with the basic idea and find images or create images that are definitely not copyrighted that would be great.
I guess I have a couple of different goals
-to show how silly advertising can be
-make people more aware of the ubiquity of advertisement
-point out how meaningless corporate speak is
-possibly generate more traffic here by creating a mysterious, ill-defined product
-to show that a lot of corporations have mysterious, ill-defined products
I mean, I've seen this sort of thing on certain cable channels. There's an advertisement for some company. It never says at any point what the company actually does other than provide "solutions," which, I only hear as a meaningless jargon term. In reality, what they're trying to sell to the audience is stocks. Stocks? What does your company do?
This of course, can also be applied to CDGASM- if we end up taking the format of a radio show, all of the main advertisements (when not being used for a poster's shameless self-promotion :lulz:) would be for this mysterious company, or its subsidiaries.
Also, any other potential uses that someone else sees that I'm not seeing. I'm pretty open to collaboration on most things, and if someone else has a good idea, I'm cool with running with it.
Hrm, I like the idea of just random, ill-defined products being advertised by an ill-defined corp, AND I especially love the potentional idea of DiscordicorpTM sponsoring CDGASMTM
Quote from: Guru Coyote on April 19, 2012, 02:42:22 AM
Hrm, I like the idea of just random, ill-defined products being advertised by an ill-defined corp, AND I especially love the potentional idea of DiscordicorpTM sponsoring CDGASMTM
Hell yeah. It would add a whole lot of what the fuck factor. If the ad comes up a few times in the recording people are going to want to look it up. And if they google it, they'll be directed back here.
That might be our in, actually. To advertise for the board without actually advertising for the board. They'll think its some sort of viral marketing and want to check it out.
Another purpose:
-To show how few corporations there actually are. Everything is a subsidiary for something else. With the music industry, for example, there are only 4 companies running the major label gig. All other major labels are child companies of those 4. Anything not part of those 4 is a minor/independent label. (did some research on it. Decided if Anarchangel ever gets an offer I would be inclined to minor label as they would guarantee us more support.)
Interesting. You may also like the non commercial brands thread that's floating around.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on April 19, 2012, 06:53:19 AM
Interesting. You may also like the non commercial brands thread that's floating around.
I think I saw that awhile back. But it was awhile, so I may have missed an update or two over an odd weekend.
Ah...this was the thread you were shouting about. I must think. A little at least.
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 19, 2012, 07:27:26 AM
Ah...this was the thread you were shouting about. I must think. A little at least.
I was shouting about it? I thought I just linked to it once in WOMP-ertainment.
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Feel free to use this if you want, no attribution necessary.
ok thoughts = the "discordicorp" font is real hard to read. fortunately there's quite a few fonts that look just like it but are much easier to read. check:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Display
or this site where you can even write "Discordicorp" in the textbox and see how it looks:
http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/futuristic-fonts.htm
Quote from: CorbeauEtRenard on April 19, 2012, 06:30:29 PM
(http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r550/MalachiCorbeau/legendarythroughput.jpg)
Feel free to use this if you want, no attribution necessary.
:lulz:
I like that!
Quote from: Triple Zero on April 19, 2012, 07:17:20 PM
ok thoughts = the "discordicorp" font is real hard to read. fortunately there's quite a few fonts that look just like it but are much easier to read. check:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Display
or this site where you can even write "Discordicorp" in the textbox and see how it looks:
http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/futuristic-fonts.htm
Thanks Trip! I'll play around with them
I'm confusing Caps Lock for shouting then. No worries. Is this in the right direction?
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Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 01:23:17 AM
I'm confusing Caps Lock for shouting then. No worries. Is this in the right direction?
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Ooh, damn. I like that one.
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Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 01:44:38 AM
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That's a good one! :mittens:
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 01:44:38 AM
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:lulz:
Awesome.
All I could think of was "DiscordiCorp...A WalMart subsidiary." But I cant decide if it was more helpful or upsetting.
Fucking loving those.
Quote from: Oysters Rockefeller on April 20, 2012, 05:05:50 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 01:44:38 AM
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:lulz:
Awesome.
All I could think of was "DiscordiCorp...A WalMart subsidiary." But I cant decide if it was more helpful or upsetting.
If Walmart's to be involved at all (which I'd prefer not), it would be that it is a subsidiary of Discordicorp.
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 05:21:25 AM
Quote from: Oysters Rockefeller on April 20, 2012, 05:05:50 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 01:44:38 AM
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:lulz:
Awesome.
All I could think of was "DiscordiCorp...A WalMart subsidiary." But I cant decide if it was more helpful or upsetting.
If Walmart's to be involved at all (which I'd prefer not), it would be that it is a subsidiary of Discordicorp.
It is OBVIOUSLY the subsidiary parent corporation of DiscordiCorp.
The 139th has been investigating them for about 50 years.
:lulz:
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Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 05:21:25 AM
Quote from: Oysters Rockefeller on April 20, 2012, 05:05:50 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 01:44:38 AM
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:lulz:
Awesome.
All I could think of was "DiscordiCorp...A WalMart subsidiary." But I cant decide if it was more helpful or upsetting.
If Walmart's to be involved at all (which I'd prefer not), it would be that it is a subsidiary of Discordicorp.
Hahaha...yeah that sounds better.
Still kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, though...so I think you're right.
These are all really good. :lulz:
The text is more readable with the black stroke (inversed if backgrounds are dark). If you guys clean up the first few (use ROFLbot (http://wigflip.com/roflbot/), like Chopra, if your WOMP engines don't have stroke-ability :wink:) we can start spreading them around.
This one is killer:
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I think that maybe what might be good would be really pro ads FOR Discordicorp, and some WOMPed up ads AGAINST. Make it seem that there is this GREAT NEW corp, AND there are CONCERNED CITIZENS opposed to the glorious capitalism of DiscordiCorp.
I like that a lot. People like a good fight.
Quote from: Guru Coyote on April 20, 2012, 10:51:55 PM
I think that maybe what might be good would be really pro ads FOR Discordicorp, and some WOMPed up ads AGAINST. Make it seem that there is this GREAT NEW corp, AND there are CONCERNED CITIZENS opposed to the glorious capitalism of DiscordiCorp.
Brilliant, good sir.
Quote from: Guru Coyote on April 20, 2012, 10:51:55 PM
I think that maybe what might be good would be really pro ads FOR Discordicorp, and some WOMPed up ads AGAINST. Make it seem that there is this GREAT NEW corp, AND there are CONCERNED CITIZENS opposed to the glorious capitalism of DiscordiCorp.
YESSSSS!!!
I suspect it's because of my global media class.
I'm getting distracted from everything. Pickles is upstairs with his girlfriend and Mike is shooting the shit with me. Probably going to waste another half hour and get to everything.
This shit is fantastic.
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Quote from: hirley0 on May 02, 2012, 05:52:11 PM
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We are 1
1 is the beginning
Are you 1 Herbert?
I am not Herbert.
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I'm not sure what it means.
Posting from phone so i cant see pic right now if there is one. But if youre referring to my last post its from the space hippies episode of star trek/opening sample on white zombies starface off of la sexorcisto.
Quote from: Bruce Twillis on May 10, 2012, 10:16:53 AM
Posting from phone so i cant see pic right now if there is one. But if youre referring to my last post its from the space hippies episode of star trek/opening sample on white zombies starface off of la sexorcisto.
I was refrring to the actual picture. I think I'm trying to say something about corporate takeovers, or some such. But I couldn't place your quotes too, but my policy is to let many things slide that I don't understand. You were replying to hirley, so...
BUMP FOR EXCELLENCE
Not that is is too hard to find but fucking BUMP for CDGASM.
Quote from: Queef Erisson on April 20, 2012, 12:52:11 AM
Quote from: CorbeauEtRenard on April 19, 2012, 06:30:29 PM
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Feel free to use this if you want, no attribution necessary.
:lulz:
I like that!
I don't know if it's actually related, but I've been seeing a commercial lately that's been using a very similar phrase to the one I used in this.
Maybe there's a person who makes ads who saw this and felt it appropriately subversive to throw in an incredibly obscure reference to an in-joke reference that basically amounts to "In 1000 years they'll tell stories about the sort of havoc (citrus-based or otherwise) we could wreak on unsuspecting toilets."
Do you recall what the ad is for?
I only ask because I have a friend who works for an advertising firm and he totally likes to throw obscure internet references into his ads.
Spring break next week. Coyote maybe you and i can im
It's a commercial for Verizon 4G phone service. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc
Quote from: CorbeauEtRenard on March 15, 2013, 11:22:15 PM
It's a commercial for Verizon 4G phone service. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc
Pretty sure that's not the video you meant to post... :lol:
Anyway, I'll ask him whether his firm has that account, and if he had anything to do with it.
Yeah, not the video I meant to post, but I think it's an improvement :lulz:
Yeah, not the video I meant to post, but I think it's an improvement :lulz:
The commercial in question has some rather amusing bits, like the shirt the kid is wearing, but most of the dialogue is just grating and is only redeemed by the secret message of "This service shits bricks like you wouldn't believe" that may or may not have been intentionally included.