With a holistic and rigorous focus on sustainability, Slow Factory works on integrative solutions, mainly for the urban environment. Current themes include: Bicycles with Public Transport; Dogs on Public Transport; Re-defining pets/companion animals as "Family animals". Also, on this Blog and other forums we take a critical approach regarding the crossroads of city life & politics, corporations/industry, language, advertising and media.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Public Transport: More Self-Harming Adverts and Positive Images in Popular Culture
For this advert, it seems almost certain that a public transport operator rented out the bus to the television production company or advertising agency.
I am also pleased to bring you the poor, car-less public transport rider, the smelly one and the sick one (but also the compassionate fellow passenger).
This one is so low-budget it might have done without permission, and here we have school bus operators getting in on the action.
An interactive ad at a bus stop in London rounds out the negative examples of this collection.
Again, in possibly all these cases, PT operators or city authorities at least gave permission and at worst took money.... on my planet this is called masochism.
To end on a positive note, a musical group from Venezuela are shown having fun with their mobile electronics (this was filmed in the town which has the same type of metro vehicle which can be accessed here) and, off topic but cute, headways can be annoyingly short sometimes...
... this is part two of this series. See part I here, here and one of one my all time-favourites here. See my Flickr page on same theme.
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