Comments on: A Bus Stop Conversation

By: Nathan Bush

Nathan Bush — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:14:03 +0000

@Johnny – Nice example! I agree, the tagger isn’t really getting their message across. But they have effectively blocked the Comm Bank message. Comm Bank obviously didn’t like – there was a new panel up by the afternoon.

By: Johnny Rotten

Johnny Rotten — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:07:02 +0000

It’s not really a multi-channel, behaviour-changing campaign though is it?

Not really much difference from people that stick chewing gum on posters or write messages on toilet walls, is it – humourless, banal, obvious, uneducated.

Until taggers learn the principles of marketing, most consumers will just pass this message by. One tagger that could make a difference was mentioned by Will Anderson on his recent stand-up show:

“I f***ed your mum”

(written underneath)

“Dad, you’re drunk. Go home.”

By: Nathan Bush

Nathan Bush — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:50:17 +0000

It’s not often that I disagree with the Oyster but I immediately think of what the bank has done to piss this person off enough to do this. I don’t stop to think what kind of person they are. The ad message is shot, all the focus is on the graffiti which takes up less than a sixth of the real estate. But everyone will have different takes on it, would be a great study.

By: Katherine Liew

Katherine Liew — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:14:05 +0000

On a slightly different note, I found it ironic that someone with the tag ‘MNC’ has defaced the construction site for a new building owned by a multi-national corporation…

@Daniel – I’m usually a spelling and grammar nazi so I’m kinda surprised I don’t feel the same way. I guess the recent teenager in me just laughs at it and says, ‘So you think you’re cool because you whipped out a texta and scrawled on a bus stop? Did you wear your Che t-shirt for the next week just to celebrate your anti-capitalistic triumph?’

…too much Fight Club I think.

By: DM

DM — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:32:16 +0000

He’z Homie, mizpelling is part of his biz.

By: Daniel Oyston

Daniel Oyston — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:07:34 +0000

@Katherine – I wouldn’t read the copy anyway. I want my eyes drawn from it and see the graffiti message. The difference now is that instead of thinking “yeah, bloody thieves” I think “that clown is illiterate”

By: Katherine Liew

Katherine Liew — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:31:02 +0000

Whether they had spelt correctly or not, it still creates a distraction – perhaps more so with the incorrect spelling! Your eyes are drawn away from the longer copy and the message is distorted.

By: Daniel Oyston

Daniel Oyston — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:01:57 +0000

Why are the rogue voices the ones who often cannot spell?

Instead of agreeing with this voice, the incorrect spelling conjures up an image of an angry, illiterate person, roaming the streets and defacing property and someone who does not have the attention to detail to make sure their message is communicated properly.

If they had of spelt correctly then I think I would be much more on board with the notion that banks are thieves (not thiefs). Instead I just think the bank is smarter than this person and a fool and his money are easily parted.