Comments on: Will Parents Say, What’s Wrong With This Picture?

By: amaruggi

amaruggi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:29:33 +0000

Mariana, thanks for the comments. My luck, I’ll get sued for defacing an ad :>) All the best.

By: amaruggi

amaruggi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:28:27 +0000

Ok I like the Devil’s Advocate role, it suits you. Perhaps it is my fear of heights and the fact that I was at about 34,000 when I was reading it?

thanks for the comment Craig

By: craigsanatomy

craigsanatomy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:00:50 +0000

Ok ok…somebody has to play devil’s advocate here.

1st of all – i’m not a huge fan of the ad, it doesn’t particularly grab me in one way or another – but I guess it’s tough to have a reaction in this context (small photo of partial ad).

And maybe it’s b/c I’m not a parent yet…but I really don’t have any sort of “OMG he’s going to shove his kid off a ledge” reaction at all…It looks like mom & kid are on a hike in an amazingly beautiful place (Banf?), and they’re stopping to enjoy the view.

…she’s even holding onto him while he takes in the view. So…umm…I’m not feeling scared here.

Dumb ad – sure.
Dumb parent – nah. Good parent who takes there kid somewhere amazing.

By: Mariana Evica

Mariana Evica — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:44:42 +0000

Whoah. Seriously, that’s pretty scary. I think I would have written in the mag, too! Knowing me, I probably would have found avenues to complain, as well. I wonder if Citi Advantage, American Way or American Airlines are monitoring the conversation about their product(s)?

Also, you might be interested to know that people are doing grass roots activism in a very similar manner to your low-tech message. Friends and associates have told me about printing both art and thought provoking messages and inserting them into books in the library, thematically linked to the content. I like it because it doesn’t deface, say, a library book but it reaches out to a reader in an inventive way. Chances are the messages are only being seen once, but still, it’s neat.

By: Mike Keliher

Mike Keliher — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:00:38 +0000

Not only is it dumb in that “protective parent” sense — who’d hoist their kid up on a ledge like that? — but here’s another wrinkle:

The tagline is “Shorten the time between imagining it and experiencing it.” Does “it” = “throwing your kid off a cliff”?! That was my first thought.

By: LenEdgerly (Len Edgerly)

LenEdgerly (Len Edgerly) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:07:22 +0000

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@AlbertMaruggi - I agree, dumb flight mag ad. [link to post] . Love the lo-tech social media message you sent.

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