Found this picture on Google Image Search today when I searched for ''BASF''.
So, I digged further about this picture. It was posted by Andrew Kantor, an American blogger long time ago. This is his story:
Three Fake Ads
Posted 03/5/04
A while ago I was doing some research about WWII when I discovered what some modern-day companies were doing back then. (In one case I looked back to WWI.) Just for fun, I created some fake ads for three of them — BASF, Mitsubishi, and Volkswagen.
I forgot about them, then discovered them sitting in a folder. I actually think they’re pretty good considering I’m self-taught in Photoshop.
Now before you start getting upset (if you’re that kind of person), realize that 1) the stuff in the ads is true, 2) I don’t have any kind of agenda, and 3) my father and maternal grandfather were in the Army in WWII. So if you’re easily offended by people making fun of German and Japanese companies, maybe you should skip them.
This was just an exercise in humor, nothing more. I just thought it would be funny to create some ads that you would never, ever see.
Click here to see the BASF ad.
Click here to see the Mitsubishi ad.
(I’m sure there were a lot more companies — American, European, Asian — doing their bit to help kill their fellow men. I just chose these three.)
I shoudn't have read his blog. I should have skipped reading. I shouldn't have digged further.
Guess what? Now I am getting upset. I am upset knowing that there are people out there that think their country is better than the others'. I am upset knowing that people think that they are better than the others. Just because people made mistakes once, it doesn't mean that they will be forever guilty.
Be sure to click on the other two ads above (Mitsubishi and VW). Is the author really sure that those companies were involved in the war back then?
What do you think if one of the fake ads is related to one of your country's beloved companies? You know it is fake, but, will you not be offended?
Exercise in humor. Wth...
5 comments:
hahaha..nice link to the ads
huh,the most sarcastic ads
they think it's funny. we get offended. that's sarcasm... i pun emo juge.. suke2 je mereka ini...
harith, this is not funny ok. if someone made something like this about petronas, all of us might be offended.
hafizd,that is the most suitable word for the ads. sarcastic.sarcasm.
illy,they think it's funny because they like to make fun of others feeling.
i read the whole blog, and found other entries that was making fun of our prophet. they said that it was just part of freedom of speech. mmg suke2 je mereka ni.
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