Thursday, December 6, 2012

Mystery's greatest monsters

The occasional wandering visitors from the benighted non-southern hemisphere who find their way to Riddled might not be aware of the Powershop electrickery company and the "Same Power, Different Attitude" advertising campaign that has left the NZ public aware of the advertising campaign though possibly not the company. In fact most of those nomads from the Northern Wasteland seem to come here in pursuit of "Atalanta Fugiens" alchemical illustrations or the latest information about spiders on drugs, but it is time that they learned that Google Search is a lying jade.

Some of the promotional posters have attracted flack from humourless members of the public or humourless lawyers from Lucasfilms, and a cynical person might leap to the suspicion that the generation of flack is an integral part of the campaign though I could not possibly comment. It was probably a disappointment for everyone concerned that the BBC did not sent writs flying over the unauthorised use of Daleks. Would they dare depict Smaug in this way? I THINK NOT.

Just saying, it is high time that we saw a floating Zardoz head spewing forth fish and chips.

10 comments:

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

So they're claiming their electricity is somehow cheekier than the competion's?

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

The fish and chips are good...The McDonald's is evil!
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tigris said...

Is stealing electricity considered worse than stealing intellectual property? I only ask because the enormous power cable leading from the neighbor's house to the lab has apparently been painted to look like a giant king snake. The crown was a nice touch.

Substance McGravitas said...

I'll give you my intellectual constructs when you pry them from my cold, dead brain.

mikey said...

Hey, check it out!

Vader's got hella nice wheels...

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Disney has purchased the rights to Zardoz, part of the package deal for Star Wars.

A reboot is in the works. I have put forth a treatment that includes zombies and blogging.

mikey said...

Yeah, maybe, but movies about buildings end up on the Discovery Channel, so that whole zombies/blogging thing might not come through with clarity....

Smut Clyde said...

s stealing electricity considered worse than stealing intellectual property?

For added amusement, Powershop and their advertising agency were all butthurt about an Australian advertisement stealing an image from them.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5400095/Aussie-advertising-copycats-busted

El Manquécito said...

>humourless members of the public

In NZ? Unpossible!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

so that whole zombies/blogging thing might not come through with clarity....

I don't see buildings in that description.