Blurring the reality line
April 20, 2004 1:18 PM Subscribe
Blurring the Line What do this fertility clinic and this publishing company have in common? Ask Lions Gate Films and BMW.
I'm too lazy to get what you're getting at but that God Send thing is a viral marketing campaign for a movie. It was discussed five days ago.
posted by dobbs at 1:24 PM on April 20, 2004
posted by dobbs at 1:24 PM on April 20, 2004
site do the creators admit that it is fiction
sorry
posted by thomcatspike at 1:29 PM on April 20, 2004
sorry
posted by thomcatspike at 1:29 PM on April 20, 2004
See also: the Volvo Mystery Documentary. "Excerpts" from the mysterious book "Men of Metal" (pdf here) were included in some magazines this month as a stand-alone booklet. The Mini Cooper's advertising has been innovative and unique, and if they hadn't been including all sorts of oddities (including stickers, road games and posters) in my copy of Rolling Stone for some time now, I doubt I'd have any idea what this pamphlet was supposed to be. Not such a big deal, but if I ran across the Godsend Institute site during a search, I might not have much of a sense of humor about it. Consider that the article linked above was in the same paper as this one only days apart.
On preview, sorry I missed the citing the previous clone post...
posted by obloquy at 1:35 PM on April 20, 2004
On preview, sorry I missed the citing the previous clone post...
posted by obloquy at 1:35 PM on April 20, 2004
I'm so confused I'm not even sure what I'm confused about.
And that's ok.
posted by Outlawyr at 1:43 PM on April 20, 2004
And that's ok.
posted by Outlawyr at 1:43 PM on April 20, 2004
Is there a "blurring the line site"?
posted by thomcatspike at 1:45 PM on April 20, 2004
posted by thomcatspike at 1:45 PM on April 20, 2004
To be honest, I'm still having a hard time sorting fact from fiction in regard to the ad booklet. Did someone really make a big ol' robot out of a yellow Mini? Is all of it fiction, or is it a real project couched in conspiratorial writing style?
author link.
mysterious Oxford Transformer-maker link.
Also, does anyone else find that the book seems like it was written by an American trying to sound British?
posted by obloquy at 1:53 PM on April 20, 2004
author link.
mysterious Oxford Transformer-maker link.
Also, does anyone else find that the book seems like it was written by an American trying to sound British?
posted by obloquy at 1:53 PM on April 20, 2004
Does anyone remember the MCI Gramercy Press ad campaign? They created a fictitious publishing company called Gramercy Press, with its own website. The ads were little vignettes of life at Gramercy Press. Very soft-sell. Back in those lovely, innocent days of the mid 1990's (sigh!), it all seemed so real -- after all, they had a website!
It all got a little more surreal when the Barbara Cartland novel mentioned in some of the MCI ads was actually published under the Gramercy Press imprint, of course.
Cartland meets Borges meets Berners-Lee. Whee!
posted by Stoatfarm at 2:16 PM on April 20, 2004
It all got a little more surreal when the Barbara Cartland novel mentioned in some of the MCI ads was actually published under the Gramercy Press imprint, of course.
Cartland meets Borges meets Berners-Lee. Whee!
posted by Stoatfarm at 2:16 PM on April 20, 2004
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When was a child cloned? This paragraph says more than one child was cloned.
posted by thomcatspike at 1:23 PM on April 20, 2004