Comments on: Adobecards

Adobecards

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:13:20 -0800

Adobecards - an aesthetic Flash-based advertisement for a new Adobe product

By: DU

DU — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:29:49 -0800

Dude, I love ya, but....it's an ad. A propagandistic ad. A confusing propagandistic ad. (Why can I "take what I want" but then you destroy pirates?)

By: gman

gman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:30:25 -0800

ummmmmm. ho.lee.shit. that's cool.

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:31:07 -0800

It's just a boring ad that fails to communicate what the product is about. Flash is all about interactivity so I'm surprised that the creators didn't let you interact with the ad as a ways to discover what the product is about.

By: gman

gman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:34:01 -0800

*I'm heavily medicated, but I really dig it.

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:39:22 -0800

Blue Adobe?

By: fungible

fungible — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:47:32 -0800

Awesome! A more realistic version of solitaire! The world's been waiting for this new product.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:53:47 -0800

Now it's waiting for a 30 meg download.

By: benzenedream

benzenedream — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:09:28 -0800

Adobe's next campaign will feature montages of Battle Chess for no apparent reason.

By: Manhasset

Manhasset — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:29:20 -0800

13,453,400 - Level 14. Beat that bitches!

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:50:43 -0800

If Adobe really let me take as much as I wanted, Acrobat would be a compact executable with no toolbar buttons not directly related to viewing the specific file I have open, would have no third party services, no embedded media players, no gotcha licensing agreements, and no DRM enforcement. Updating it would not require shutting down my web browsers and it would not attempt to install toolbars in Office. I'm sorry, was I supposed to watch something? I got testy waiting for that interminable loading screen to finish so I could watch an advertisement, and decided to come back here and rant instead.

By: illiad

illiad — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:08:57 -0800

Lots of unreasonably testy people on the blue tonight, snarking at the slightest provocation, imagined or otherwise. You'd think it was a stressful time of year or something.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:51:01 -0800

pantone 18-3943

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:56:54 -0800

Apparently you have to move the slider yourself, and you don't need to wait for the entire download to start. For those of tl;drers out there.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:02:34 -0800

Oh and if you want to know more about the product, at the end you get a link to this page where you can watch a video of a guy with a snooty accent telling you "When I open up CS4, I'm like a kid, playing with his new toys"

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:33:42 -0800

Um, that was awesome. I don't care if it was an advertisement. Awesomeness in any form is appreciated by me, and that was freaking awesome. If all advertisements were that cool, then I wouldn't mind watching media. As it stands now, this is just a lone asshole crying in the wilderness, and the collective MeFi mind went "OMG IT'S AN AD! IT'S NOT REAL! IT MUST BE VIRAL. Cool is as cool does, and you all just wish you were this cool.

By: greenie2600

greenie2600 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:20:02 -0800

Meh. I was all ready to speak out against the Adobe-hate (sure, they've made some missteps, but Photoshop is one of the greatest apps of all time) and the ad-hate (if something really is cool, who cares if it's an ad?), and then I RTFA'ed. Yeah. It's just a typical Adobe ad—full of sound and, uh, masterfully executed but bland-as-beige "artistic" imagery, signifying nothing.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:16:45 -0800

Take longer to load already.

By: davemee

davemee — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:29:07 -0800

Sith the sound off, I am left with the impression that Adobe's flagship suite is as stable and solid as a house of cards. Is this what it's trying to convey?

By: davemee

davemee — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:33:14 -0800

Sith, of course, refering to the With. EEE users demand comment editing power (or smaller fingers).

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:18:22 -0800

That was weird. Also, it was an ad for CS3. Weird.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:22:55 -0800

So CS3 is all about the callous destruction of card houses, right?

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:12:21 -0800

I am left with the impression that Adobe's flagship suite is as stable and solid as a house of cards. Is this what it's trying to convey? If you were thinking about all the institutions whose first credit crunch manouver is not to bother upgrading to cs4 - then you'd be bang on.

By: slater

slater — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:34:51 -0800

Dear Adobe, Please go away. Yours, Everyone else. Crashed my browser (latest Safari, on latest OSX) twice. grumble. grump.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:57:58 -0800

Well...it was pretty cool, I guess. Until it completely crashed Firefox.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:13:22 -0800

An impressive animation, but I don't really see the point of it. That said, I'd like to counter a lot of the Adobe hate by saying that the Creative Suite has made my job, and by extension, my life easier in so many ways. As someone who's been a designer, a prepress tech, an offset dude, and a large-format dude, I've probably saved a few months of work time thanks to CS's ability to automate and streamline my workflow. And that's how I can post on MetaFilter all damn day. Thanks, Adobe.

By: yonation

yonation — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:01:58 -0800

why is adobe advertising cs3 when cs4 just came out tho amirite?

By: GavinR

GavinR — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:26:10 -0800

Foxit doesn't have annoying load times....or pretentious pointless ad sites.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:24:04 -0800

Is Flash really that 3D now? Does it ship with Swift or something? Really impressive, if automatic-looking effects.

By: greensweater

greensweater — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:02:02 -0800

The first thing we see is the Ace of Spades. The spade seems to become more elaborate as the single card turns into an entire deck -- which quickly fans out to form a bridge leading to a fortress -- a house of cards that assembles itself as we watch. The Queen of Hearts appears and sniffs a flower, as if to emphasize her ease in her current accommodations. An ocean materializes, and a ship bearing the Ace of Spades as its mainsail insignia sweeps into view. Cannons jut out of the broadside and attack the fortress, which is nearly destroyed in the ensuing battle, much to the Queen's consternation. Suddenly, a jester's head on a spring pops out what's left of the castle, like a giant jack-in-the-box, benevolently smiling as the Queen is sent flying and the castle is utterly destroyed. He ponders the viewer momentarily, then inhales deeply. As he does so, the fabric of the scene is torn apart and is pulled into a dark vortex. The flotsam fades from view, and the single remaining dark shape slows its spin as it grows and at last reveals itself -- the Ace of Spades. The title sequence reads "Bring fanciful ideas to life." The jester image was the flagship graphic of CS3, at least on adobe.com. The ace of spades, widely regarded as an evil omen or "death card," becomes a bridge (perhaps a reference to Adobe Bridge, the cornerstone of the Creative Suite package) to a house of cards. The fortress symbolizes the status quo. With another reference to the death card, the flagship appears and begins to blow the fortress to hell -- really nothing more than a courtesy call since the jack-in-the-box jester shows up to destroy the entire universe in the end anyway. In tarot, the death card symbolizes change. I can't help but come away with the notion that Adobe is trying to tell us that their vision is to destroy the status quo every 18 months with a new upgrade to their Creative Suite. Fanciful ideas, indeed. I know, GYOB