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Xfonic
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Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 35
Quote:
"The cultural jammers, cultural saboteurs, are advertising groups, communication artists and professionals that, taking advantage of an individual's/consumer's addiction to publicity, inoculate into mind television advertising, pseudo-events, posters, stickering, fake sites, underhanded viruses that replicate themselves among the minds provoking semantic short circuits and derailment of the advertising content from the straight path of produce-consume-die".
That was is a direct quote from the female owner of the site. I honestly do not think its an ARG. Probably just another of their "very badly" done artistic style fake sites. The guy is prob some politician or artist somewhere or something they studied at university..
But an arg? my vote is no.. She seems like the kind of woman (after reading the entire linked interview) that you would have to sleep next to with one eye open.. kinda a nutt case lol
course I could be 100% wrong as well. But I do agree, if it IS an arg it is done very bad..
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:16 am
chinga
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I just received an answer from them:
Quote:
from info@thisman.org
subject Re: from thisman.org webform
mailed-by thisman.org
Hi,
can you describe your dream?
Actually we don't know who he is.
Thank you
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:08 pm
MovieViralDan
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Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 105
one of the comments today on their guestbooks says you can create the picture through a flash site:
http://flashface.ctapt.de/
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:15 pm
elfis
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Tejas
I'm kinda surprised none of you sleuths has posted a WHOis yet for the domain name.
Looks like Guerrilla Marketing from Italy to me...
Domain ID:D150747616-LROR
Domain Name:THISMAN.ORG
Created On:25-Jan-2008 16:02:00 UTC
Last Updated On:24-Jan-2009 12:50:16 UTC
Expiration Date:25-Jan-2010 16:02:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:tuswXI6c1yuHmCEU
Registrant Name:Andrea Natella
Registrant Organization:Andrea Natella
Registrant Street1:Via dell'orso 43
Registrant Street2:
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Registrant City:ROMA
Registrant State/Province:RM
Registrant Postal Code:00186
Registrant Country:IT
Registrant Phone:+39.0668891709
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Registrant Email:a.natella@guerrigliamarketing.it
Admin ID:tuswXI6c1yuHmCEU
Admin Name:Andrea Natella
Admin Organization:Andrea Natella
Admin Street1:Via dell'orso 43
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Admin City:ROMA
Admin State/Province:RM
Admin Postal Code:00186
Admin Country:IT
Admin Phone:+39.0668891709
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Admin Email:a.natella@guerrigliamarketing.it
Tech ID:tuBbH6SFrsByEPBu
Tech Name:Servizio Registrazione Domini Internazionali
Tech Organization:COLT Engine S.r.l.
Tech Street1:Via San Pancrazio 14
Tech Street2:
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Tech City:Pianezza
Tech State/Province:Torino
Tech Postal Code:10044
Tech Country:IT
Tech Phone:+39.0112340031
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:+39.01182931192
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:com@dnshosting.it
Name Server:DNS1.DNSHOSTING.IT
Name Server:DNS2.DNSHOSTING.IT
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Guerilla Marketing website: http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:20 pm
RAD24
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Joined: 26 May 2009 Posts: 795 Location: Behind the wall
In the source code for the Guerrilla Marketing website is this:
"keyword" content="guerriglia marketing guerrilla trojan buzz viral cultural jamming pranks hoax alternativo estremo virale"
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:30 pm
catherwood-offline
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A media blogger reported this week about the phenomenon and gave links to some explanation. Agency Spy here comments on what this other blogger has to say, including further links to more analysis. I think we could debate the label of "hoax", but it's definitely not an ARG.
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:44 pm
kevrock
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Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 320
The first thing I thought after seeing this was that it was a poor imitation of the ubiquitous JR Bob Dobbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dobbs
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:41 pm
Anony
Boot
Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 11
Something to do with the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie. The Face looks alot like Jackie Earle Haley, the actor how portrayed Rorschach in The Watchmen movie. He is playing Freddy Krueger in the reimagining, It fits the MO of freddy what with him being dream based and what not.
This is not my original idea, found it on another website. Though you guys might want it.
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:54 pm
lifegospel
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Isn't he the one that created the church of the Sub-Genius?
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:59 pm
ndemeter
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Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 1037 Location: Sunny California!
Actually he looks more like David Ferrie:
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:44 pm
kevrock
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Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 320
Quote:
Isn't he the one that created the church of the Sub-Genius?
Correct.
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:18 pm
Anonymousity
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EVER DREAM THIS MAN? Guy that appears in dreams. Viral? Or bollocks? http://thisman.org/
This might be a clumsy experiment, but somehow I doubt it. It really looks like an attempt at viral marketing.
I think it might be either INCEPTION or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET... it could be completely unrelated though.
However, what made me suspect it is viral is the fact that some guest-book posters claim they heard from that site via radio or blogs just a few days after it went online. Usually, that's not the case with such phenomenons. A site like that would have to have been a few months up for people to notice it...
/edit: merged to existing thread -ndemeter
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:41 pm
kevrock
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Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 320
Been there, done that.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28489
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:47 pm
Anonymousity
Guest
Ah, I see. Though, I guess people haven't come up with what this is or made further research... Hope it turns out to be viral marketing for something, the idea is great and making it just another useless "net-experiment" would be boring...
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:01 pm
MovieViralDan
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Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 105
Re: EVER DREAM THIS MAN? Guy that appears in dreams. Viral? Or bollocks?
Anonymousity wrote:
http://thisman.org/
This might be a clumsy experiment, but somehow I doubt it. It really looks like an attempt at viral marketing.
I think it might be either INCEPTION or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET... it could be completely unrelated though.
However, what made me suspect it is viral is the fact that some guest-book posters claim they heard from that site via radio or blogs just a few days after it went online. Usually, that's not the case with such phenomenons. A site like that would have to have been a few months up for people to notice it...
/edit: merged to existing thread -ndemeter
I think this is Alex from Firstshowing.net
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:41 pm
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