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03-26-2014, 01:36 AM
Every Terrible Ad Cliché You've Ever Seen in One Genius Video
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Lab beakers and Chinese farmers. Kites and pa**ramic views of Costa Rica. Cars, babies and canned goods — these are what advertisements are made of
Stock video provider Dissolve (http://www.dissolve.com/) has created a brilliant ad by mocking (what else?) ads
See also: Artist Brilliantly Recreates the Awkward Faces of Real Estate Ads (http://mashable.com/2013/12/19/faces-of-real-estate/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The company pokes fun at its own business by pairing stock footage with the text from Kendra Eash's advertising takedown "This is a Generic Brand Video." Eash's poem, originally published on McSweeney's (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-a-generic-brand-video), calls out brands for overusing tropes like wrinkled ethnic men, stop-motion highway shots and skyscrapers Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/generic-brand-ad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Lab beakers and Chinese farmers. Kites and pa**ramic views of Costa Rica. Cars, babies and canned goods — these are what advertisements are made of
Stock video provider Dissolve (http://www.dissolve.com/) has created a brilliant ad by mocking (what else?) ads
See also: Artist Brilliantly Recreates the Awkward Faces of Real Estate Ads (http://mashable.com/2013/12/19/faces-of-real-estate/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The company pokes fun at its own business by pairing stock footage with the text from Kendra Eash's advertising takedown "This is a Generic Brand Video." Eash's poem, originally published on McSweeney's (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-a-generic-brand-video), calls out brands for overusing tropes like wrinkled ethnic men, stop-motion highway shots and skyscrapers Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/generic-brand-ad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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