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Saturday, August 26, 2006 » general link thought

The news is a few months old, but while browsing around yesterday I learned about this cool ad campaign consisting of images on the inside of subway tunnels, like a zoetrope:

About 9:15 a.m., Metro officials flipped the switch to turn on the advertising displays, which can be seen in the tunnels between the Metro Center and Gallery Place-Chinatown stations, and between Gallery Place and Judiciary Square on the Red Line traveling toward Glenmont. The advertising displays are a series of lighted, static images that appear to move, like so many flip cards, as the train rolls by.

Several other articles about similar campaigns in other subway systems quoted riders who were upset that advertisers were using the tunnels in that way, but something like that doesn't bother me at all. Sure, I dislike intrusive ads and product placement, but I usually forgive advertisers who can come up with creative, unusual campaigns.

These pardonable campaigns do not include the humongous bomber that occasionally flies over my Gamespot account, however.