“The Ad Generator” …

Posted by Rob Walker on January 25, 2007
Posted Under: Advertising,Backlashing

… is described this way:

The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly.

Here’s the site. About one out of every five of the resulting “ads” are interesting. That’s not bad, though. It’s part of a thesis project by Alexis Lloyd. Via MetaFilter.

Further diversion may be found at MKTG Tumblr, and the Consumed Facebook page.

Reader Comments

CAn’t get to the Ad Generator; but her blog says the mentions on Digg etc. crashed the Parsons server yesterday, so maybe that’s why it’s 404 for me?

#1 
Written By Steve Portigal on January 25th, 2007 @ 12:13 pm

It’s working for me on two browsers, so I have no idea why the 404.

#2 
Written By murketing on January 25th, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
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