Comments on: Offensive Nike Ads Pulled http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:59:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Brandon aka Former Emp# 29049 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1626 Brandon aka Former Emp# 29049 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:20:23 +0000 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1626 Here ya go.... http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1935196.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939057D9939C83F1069B72C47BECCD0F8B5A5397277B4DC33E Here ya go….

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1935196.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939057D9939C83F1069B72C47BECCD0F8B5A5397277B4DC33E

]]> By: Brandon aka Former Emp# 29049 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1625 Brandon aka Former Emp# 29049 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:18:42 +0000 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1625 Fuck that....does that make Hakim Warrick homo for teabaggin' Royal Ivy in the tourney??? This is bullshit!!! Fuck that….does that make Hakim Warrick homo for teabaggin’ Royal Ivy in the tourney??? This is bullshit!!!

]]> By: rN http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1510 rN Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:36:32 +0000 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1510 nevertheless, the cropped Undftd tee and the W+K ad are mirror images. plus, the Undftd tee was given homophobic nicknames (**by company outsiders**) like "eat balls"... the implausible queer undertones sound all too close to those dredged up/misperceived for this ad campaign and the gay-pride police who blew the foul whistle before almost anybody knew this ad campaign even existed. Something my cynical mind recollects Chomsky mentioning in Manufacturing Consent: "The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication, and should use this power as they tell us they must – namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved, or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be essential to survival." ... ok, i have NO IDEA what Noam means but i hope it suits my purposes and stalls your response Mr Heppler for a few minutes as you ponder the above quote. yet in this case, i dont consider the line b/t inspired & biting so difficult to determine. it's not hard to presume that a prominant west coast firm like w+k (whoever they are... tho manufactured controversy is changing that) would be familiar with the bond+cruz promotion/design family. Toooo much inspiration (biting or whatever) for me. gotta go. David Ortiz crushed a Ponson pitch to right field. Yanks winning streak was in jeopardy in the 4th but now have bases loaded in the Top of the 5th. Thank the lord for sunday night baseball on espn... and A-Rod hitting an infield pop-up with nobody out. ditto for Nady. nevertheless, the cropped Undftd tee and the W+K ad are mirror images. plus, the Undftd tee was given homophobic nicknames (**by company outsiders**) like “eat balls”… the implausible queer undertones sound all too close to those dredged up/misperceived for this ad campaign and the gay-pride police who blew the foul whistle before almost anybody knew this ad campaign even existed.

Something my cynical mind recollects Chomsky mentioning in Manufacturing Consent:
“The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication, and should use this power as they tell us they must – namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved, or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be essential to survival.”

… ok, i have NO IDEA what Noam means but i hope it suits my purposes and stalls your response Mr Heppler for a few minutes as you ponder the above quote.

yet in this case, i dont consider the line b/t inspired & biting so difficult to determine. it’s not hard to presume that a prominant west coast firm like w+k (whoever they are… tho manufactured controversy is changing that) would be familiar with the bond+cruz promotion/design family. Toooo much inspiration (biting or whatever) for me.

gotta go. David Ortiz crushed a Ponson pitch to right field. Yanks winning streak was in jeopardy in the 4th but now have bases loaded in the Top of the 5th. Thank the lord for sunday night baseball on espn… and A-Rod hitting an infield pop-up with nobody out. ditto for Nady.

]]> By: Rob Heppler http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1509 Rob Heppler Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:02:55 +0000 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1509 wow, thanks for the links... biting and inspired is a very thin line. Could we say that Vince Carter got the idea after watching Along Came Polly? Or Pepsi started a business after Coke's idea... T-shirts and ads seem to be lame when compared to every automobile manufacturer biting Henry Fords original idea. wow, thanks for the links… biting and inspired is a very thin line. Could we say that Vince Carter got the idea after watching Along Came Polly? Or Pepsi started a business after Coke’s idea… T-shirts and ads seem to be lame when compared to every automobile manufacturer biting Henry Fords original idea.

]]> By: rN http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1508 rN Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:21:20 +0000 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1508 lengthy photo link at hoopedia sis not make the cut! try here instead: http://hoopedia.nba.com/images/8/85/File.jpg the cropped Undftd Bond + Cruz version is very, very, very similar to the Wieden + Kennedy alternate. lengthy photo link at hoopedia sis not make the cut!
try here instead:
http://hoopedia.nba.com/images/8/85/File.jpg

the cropped Undftd Bond + Cruz version is very, very, very similar to the Wieden + Kennedy alternate.

]]> By: rn http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1507 rn Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:24:16 +0000 http://www.blacklodges.com/fire/2008/07/26/offensive-nike-ads-pulled/#comment-1507 wieden + Kennedy seem to be recycling images already done by Undefeated on a tee last year. The Undftd tee was based on Vince Carter's "The Dunk of Death" during the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. In a 106-94 victory over France, Carter of Team USA executed what some call "the greatest dunk of all-time", and the French media called "le dunk de la mort" ("the Dunk of Death"), literally jumping over 7'2" (2.18 m) France center Frédéric Weis on his way to the basket (right). phote here: http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php/USA_Senior_National_Team_(Men)#2000_U.S._Olympic_Basketball_Team multi-angle video version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6qJ7LZNlg ... since this is a eurocentric site (and a francophile one at that!) i thought i would include a French broadcast edition as well (or is that French Canadian?!?!?! ...sorry folks, that's as close as this american can do for my Euro friends!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuaKUU3o7w proper footnote: inspiration and enjoyment culled from a recent dante ross' post on "Design Gridlock". post.http://www.danteross.com/blogs/dante/2008/07/24/design-gridlock-101-who-bit-who-and-whos-the-freshest/ wieden + Kennedy seem to be recycling images already done by Undefeated on a tee last year.

The Undftd tee was based on Vince Carter’s “The Dunk of Death” during the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney.
In a 106-94 victory over France, Carter of Team USA executed what some call “the greatest dunk of all-time”, and the French media called “le dunk de la mort” (”the Dunk of Death”), literally jumping over 7′2″ (2.18 m) France center Frédéric Weis on his way to the basket (right).

phote here:
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php/USA_Senior_National_Team_(Men)#2000_U.S._Olympic_Basketball_Team

multi-angle video version here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6qJ7LZNlg

… since this is a eurocentric site (and a francophile one at that!) i thought i would include a French broadcast edition as well (or is that French Canadian?!?!?! …sorry folks, that’s as close as this american can do for my Euro friends!):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuaKUU3o7w

proper footnote:
inspiration and enjoyment culled from a recent dante ross’ post on “Design Gridlock”. post.http://www.danteross.com/blogs/dante/2008/07/24/design-gridlock-101-who-bit-who-and-whos-the-freshest/

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