Comments on: The company's called 86 The Onions. What do you expect?

The company's called 86 The Onions. What do you expect?

dobbs — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 01:12:50 -0800

Cocoon. Rainbows. Diorama. Grass. Karaoke. Wedding. Dave. Apparently these are all ads for NEC. How they're promoting something, and what that something is, I haven't a clue. But they made me laugh. {movs, I think. via News Today}

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:16:26 -0800

Excellent! Whatever it is, I'll buy it.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:23:22 -0800

G A B B O

By: greasepig

greasepig — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:09:34 -0800

Hmmh.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:16:56 -0800

Hutchinson 3G UK have a campaign with one single hook - irrelevant weirdness. (They're a mobile phone network.)

By: fungible

fungible — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:42:09 -0800

The flash site linked on the page is even more bizzare. Anyone read Japanese?

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:31:42 -0800

I read Japanese, but very badly. I skimmed the "Concept" secion, and it was a lot of buzzword driven marketing crap, like "becoming strong with ubiquitous [computing]." NEC has set up a company to research ubiquitous solutions. Ubiquitous computing is basically the idea that computers will be everywhere in the near future. Sine the new IPv6 standard provides 655,570,793,348,866,943,898,599 addresses per square meter of the earths surface, this could conceivably happen. It has been called the opposite of virtual reality, because where VR seeks to immerse the person in the computer's world, UC seeks to saturate the real world with computers.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:34:41 -0800

Wanna know how they managed to sell such a whacky campaign? The man behind it said it was easy as pie thanks to open minded in love with off-beat work Japanese clients. [full disclosure, my post on my ad-community site] >