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oh how my blood boiled the first time i saw this... the cheek!!

"No. This my friend is Jazz Funk. - The cerebral musicality of Jazz mixed with the visceral groove of funk. "
andy stewart
2008-03-11 13:24:57

There's taking inspiration and there's just copying. I saw this Salca ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq3F39h-xd8 (it's pesto) and it's so horribly copied from this Youtube work of genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo


Please try harder in future ad men.
Dan Northcote-Smith
2008-03-11 15:43:07

Oh dear god the sugar puffs ad should be banned *comment edited by moderator*
Harlequin
2008-03-11 16:08:15

The clips dan posted both remind me of what is surely the source of inspiration for the quality cut-up drums link...

the original audio/visual masters Hexstatic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRJZWHyqy4
Andy de Vries
2008-03-11 17:11:41

That is truly painful. Student-centric advertising at its very worst.
AAA
2008-03-11 18:21:19

Compare:

Teletext Advert-
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=02a3Oivka4Y

Youtube original material-
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=33ESMilyErE

There's also an overdubbed version from which the teletext ad has stolen lines from almost word for word.

This is really awful. I hope someone kicks up a fuss over this.
Dave
2008-03-12 12:50:10

I agree with Dan Northcote-Smith.

That is just completely copied from the Boosh, and its such a bad copy at that.
Matthew
2008-03-12 17:30:21

Did they really think no-one would notice?!
churchy
2008-03-13 11:33:08

Shocking! Think of your own ideas Bray Leino!
Pip
2008-03-14 17:22:02

I know advertising's been 'ripping off' stuff for years and years, so nothing new there. But this, at the end of the day, is just a bit, er rubbish isn't it? It's just taking something that is genuinely good right out of its context and shoe-horning it into an ad, where it is meaningless and pointless. Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.
Mr B
2008-03-14 17:24:11

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