Mailbag Question from a Reader
posted by on June 9 at 12:26 PM
I’m not sure who else to pose this question to and The Stranger usually has all the answers, right? This spring there was a bus ad campaign (maybe billboards, too… I forget) that started off as blank white ads with a few Pepto-pink splatters on it. Over the course of maybe two or three stages, the ads were covered with more pink splatters, but never any text. Now it’s been maybe a month since I last saw one and I haven’t seen the completion to the campaign. Did I miss it? Does any of the Stranger staff know what I’m talking about? It seemed a lame ad campaigner, and even lamer that I want to know what it was for…
flamingos at the zoo
I'll tell you what makes pink splatters...an enormous whozeewhatsit!!!
It was the Zoo's ad campaign for the flamingo's exhibit. Take a look at the billboard across the street from the de-tox center on Boren.
I remember this, but sadly; I think Seattle's a bad city to test these on: too many pot smokers with little attention spans! I'll comment back if I find something out!
I think it was taggers.
They're posting on SLOG too.
Flamingos. It was a cool campaign. We don't see enough pink in this city.
You could see the flamingos as white silhouettes against the pink splatters.
They could have done a better job of it.
On a similar pink note:
Anyone know what "Operation Bright Pink" is/was all about? I saw posters around, but never any useful information -- website, date, any text...
That 'Operation Bright Pink" wheat-paste plague was marketing for the band Thee Emergency.
@8 - wow. Now that was a total waste of ad dollars ...
I was going to guess it was the butt ugly posters for SIFF this year...
God! When I read the headline, I thought this was yet another story from Austria...
Fuck Thee Emergency. That is all.
i liked the add campaign. it really got my attention. i think i need to go see those flamingos now.
I don't get it. Was that supposed to be pink birdshit on the ads?
Heh.. "Thee Emergency", eh?
Silly bastards.
I thought it was a breast-cancer awareness campaign, or a neo-feminist insurgency.
@9 is right.
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