October 10, 2007
At Least You Weren't On This Bus
Yes, the Metro trains yesterday were all screwed up, but it could have been worse. We saw the ad above on a #22 and...shudder.
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What the hell?
Those crazy "frisco art pranksters" in the lower haight. Dude, it's like adbusters - but its local... sweet.
This wankster goofing on the 22 is pretty lame, if teh Muni was going to tell horror stories, this seems pretty low key. Is this faux ad designed to raise the awareness of the shit that operators have to go through? I doubt it.
I do like Helena Keeffe, the real public art campaign that they goofed on. When I saw the panel that she did about the 15-Third, I got kinda weepy. That is where the ironic sillyheads their Vawanda image.
Helena Keeffe's page with the original image is here
You crazie guys are pretty innovative with the photoshop. I hope that you didn't use all of your mommy's ink from the color deskjet.
I'm with Angry Young Man on this one: What the hell?
This is your ad campaign???? Ride Muni, maybe it'll be early enough in the morning that the whackjob will only scare the poop out of you and not kill you by ramming the bus in to other traffic.
Nice BS PR campaign.
Let's demand equal time for Driver horror stories:
"It was pouring rain, and the driver saw the 90 year old woman nearing the door to enter, but he shut it in her face."
"a passenger was trying to get off but the doors closed before the old man could get out. People started screaming at the driver to open the door, but she had her ipod on, and lurched the bus forward and the man fell and also missed his stop."
This is just so incredibly bizarre. Usually the public transit experience is presented as desirable and enjoyable in these ads.
Maybe they're trying to say "Ride MUNI, our drivers are superheroes". But do they read their ads before posting them?
Normally, I'd say that people are talking about Muni, and that's the goal of the campaign.
But when have people stopped talking about Muni?
Her placid smile is rather soothing. I like to think that she was making that face throughout the entire episode.
Thanks for clearing it up "MistaHM", that is funny, I hope they will do more.
I forgot this real life one that was a hot topic here a few months ago:
"Hi, I'm Brenda and I drive the 22. I've been an operator since 1988, so I have a special nasty tude. One night I was hungry, so I left the bus to get lunch. It don't bother me that it was full of people who just hadda sit there. After all, I was enjoying my bucket of extra crispy wings and and gravy at KFC. If one of those asshole riders complains I'm calling my Union president and shit I'll sue the fucking city, or go out on stress leave for life."
It is a weird campaign -- the one I saw this morning was a driver telling about a panicked passenger who was afraid she was going to be late for a job interview. The driver was told by the dispatcher to make all the passengers get off and turn the bus around. The driver refused and ended up getting the woman to her interview after all. I guess it's meant to be a feel-good thing, but I take away from the ad that 1. MUNI runs late, 2. MUNI turns around full buses before the run is finished, 3. Drivers can ignore dispatchers orders on a whim. Great job!
IT'S A PRANK FOLKS! Maybe a little too subtle.
I've seen a real ad with the "Vawanda" character and it's nothing like this, all normal and warm and fuzzy. I'll try to snap a pic if I see one again.
D'oh - that's right it was that F-market poster on Market at Bush-ish.
Doesn't it say something about our collective opinion of MUNI intelligence that we were all taken in by this (yep, I believed it was real when I snapped the pic).
Neat prank, though.
this is beautiful. just beautiful.
Hi, my name is Agent510, and I just got Punk'd.
I wonder if we'll soon see another one of those SFAC Muni workers' stories: "One night, I was driving on my route, when I caught some tosser trying to post a fake ad inside my bus, and I put my foot up his..."
Ha! Brilliant. I'm impressed not only with the cards, but the feat of getting them into so many buses; they seem to be everywhere.
That's no big feat. They just wait until the driver stops in for a bucket of KFC and throw those suckers up. Doesn't take a second, they can get it done while the driver is finishing up the finger-likkin'.
Excellent! Great idea for a true art project to actually plaster all manner of these stories on the buses.
There's this small pocket park I walk by that has two regular "no this or that" warning signs stenciled on small wood panels. I was thinking last week about putting up phony absurd signs, to see how long they'd stay up.
Stuff like:
"No nudity on School Days"
"Place human waste in plastic bags"
"No smoking. Medical cannabis OK"
"No male dogs 6AM-6PM"
I might actually do it.
@mariconsoy:
Wait, those are phony warnings? Dangitall!
This is great. It really captures the Muni brand.