Fighting Climate Change With Bad Photoshop
The UN Climate Change Conference (look, penguins!) begins Monday in Copenhagen. Greenpeace and TckTckTck have collaborated to greet the leaders of the free world with dour Photoshopped-aged visages of the men (and Germany’s Angela Merkel) from the year 2020. The posters, which all feature the same lame fake scare-quote, have been erected all over the city’s airport. (click gallery) President Change looks so hopeless, Nicolas Sarkozy looks so angry and bloaty, and the UK’s Gordon Brown looks exactly the same, except grayer. Eight leaders in all are tweaked. Who knows? Maybe appealing to these egomaniacs’ vanity will accomplish something. |Images via: Creative Review|
by Copyranter on December 4, 2009 at 11:55 am
Editor-in-Chief:
I think you are missing the point. It's an NGO low budget caper. It's not about the photoshop – it's about the idea. I'm sure if they had massive budgets they would asked the leaders to pose with full make up artists from Paramount Studios or have done it in CGI.
You're right. My headline should have been: Fighting climate change with a fucking idiotic idea.
a lot of people are complaining about the visual quality of the Greenpeace's ads, but the fact that they are getting so much feedback is an indication that, they're visual renditions are having at least some effect
What are you actually angry about? The "bad photoshop"? The tactic? Or do you not believe in climate change and so just are easily irritated by the message?
I don't care about the bad photoshop (I quite like the Sarkozy one!). I absolutely loathe super-"professional" jobs where money is a cheap substitute for creativity – like so many explosion-packed and car-crash packed Hollywood films. What substance would a "better" photoshop job add?
I don't actually like Greenpeace that much (they lost their scientific direction years ago), but the message here is clear… these leaders might not be in office for that long, but they will certainly live long enough to reflect on their decisions and answer to the world about them.
The question then becomes – do you believe climate change is as imminent and serious as all this hype. For me personally – yes.
The ads are effective because they have done their job to grab attention. They may be somewhat controversial, but they aren't too horrible.
This is wonderful.
This is proof that the left Democratic Socialists have to lie to make their point.
How can we separate church and state when the religion of the Democrat Socialist left IS in fact the State.
The left will do and say anything to protect their messiah.
The beauty is: they will win. (Then what . . . is even more beautiful)
Dont criticize anything that comes around you for the sake of criticizing. Bad Photoshop? Just because the leaders are not looking like hollywood hunks when they are old? You sure Sarkozy will not be bloated when he is at 75? Its about the imagination and creative thinking. The ad catches attention and thats the sole purpose of an Ad.
It's nice that Greepeace is at least trying to help and not just throwing softballs at those who are.
Global warming is a myth created to wreak havoc on society on a global scale. Obama and his cronies have bought in to this crap (or at least pretended to) so he can sign away our sovereignty and give the USA to the world so we can be a one world government. It makes no sense for us to pay other countries, when our economy is in shambles anyways. I am not a conspiracy theorist but, something's not right. We will not all stand around in perfect harmony singing Kumbafuckinya. Their will be a world war because the majority of people are not going to stand for this. Al Gore stands to make billions once this treaty is signed. They don't care about poor people or the next generation. Obama's already double crossed the poor. He made sure the bankers, aligned with Goldman Sachs, got richer. But the rest of the nation has to "tighten our belts". It's not a Democrat or Republican thing. All this stuff hit the fan with a Republican administration joined by a Democrat congress. Bush Sr. talked about a "one world order". The rich of the world are fixing to become rulers, and the middle class is going to join the already poor.
"Global warming is a myth created to wreak havoc on society on a global scale."
It's a very successful myth – look at the ice caps and glaciers!
I was just wondering if Mike G realized that Antartica is growing, and the Polar Bear Numbers are up…Re distrabution of Wealth is the only reason for this, and I believe we already give away too much to these America haters… I wonder how much a US GI's death is worth to these people…ahh we have hundreds of thousands that fought and died for these smug a$$holes, and Billionsgo to help these people and they waste it, then hate us… . Pull all out and never give a red cent of US taxpayers money or Obama fake money to anyone else.. As far as I see they have slapped the hand that fed them all last century. Mike and all of you Marxists watch out the Patriots of the Tea Party are growing bigger and bigger as you commies "try" to discredit us. Unlike you, we still believe God blesses America, and thanks to the Obama Change to Marxism, the backbone of the US has awakened again, Down with the Unions and up with small business.
In reply to Copyranters:
"You’re right. My headline should have been: Fighting climate change with a fucking idiotic idea."
December 7th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Copyranter – are you sure you should be doing this job? You should check out the coverage these things are getting?
Just type this into google "I’m Sorry. We Could Have Stopped Catastrophic Climate Change. We Didn’t"
I'm glad a [fucking idiotic] strong idea can still travel through the media rather than some over styled over polished bad idea that's done with over glossy 'good potato-shop'. Ideas man. Ideas.
Maybe you should start looking for another job – I think you got this so wrong.
(Smiley face masking a huge outburst of laughter that will erruopt when I leave the room)
Now you go and have a good sulk in the corner and think about things.
Have a great day:)
Maybe Bucky should have a word with copywanker?
the four rote hack ad ideas are:
1. use babies.
2. use animals.
3. go into the past.
4, go into the future.
Welcome to Hackenhagen.
So (you idiot): In answer to your 4 points.
1. the whole point of climate change is the fact that what we do now affects you the future. Especially babies.
2. They didn't
3. They didn't
4. See point one.
Back to school for copyranter to meet the silly teacher who taught him.
methinks he might want to relearn those hack points as clearly he's out of date.
the hole gets deeper copyranter.
You win.
We all lose if these world leaders don't take a deep breathe and commit to stopping this now.
Agreed 100% (sfx: with echo, from deep in my hole)
"The posters, which all feature the same lame fake scare-quote"
Ah glad we cleared that up, I thought it was a real thing they all said, in 2020. Actually it's fake. And lame. Apparantly.
"President Change looks so hopeless, Nicolas Sarkozy looks so angry and bloaty"
… yes I think this is what's called "the point of the advert", but hey, you're the expert.
Go back to designing the front of cereal boxes, or whatever it is you do.
Sorry you can't take criticism. I don't love the campaign. It's hokey and jokey.
I'm a creative director who's taught at SVA and FIT. You?