I Stopped Doing Acid A Long Time Ago February 4, 2008
But sometimes I feel like I’m still tripping. Someone tell me they get this print ad. The only correlation I can make between the ostrich and the granola is the copy that says, “get his beak around”. Ostriches aren’t really “go-getters”, are they? One of my account managers is like an ostrich. When there’s a billing problem with a client, he sticks his head in the sand (read: up his ass) and hopes I take care of it eventually. I fucking hate birds.
My theories are:
1. It’s just part of a future (or current?) campaign with animals in the offfice.
2. They needed to fill up an entire page with an image and chose the ostrich to take up space?
3. The original headline made sense, ostrich-wise, but it had to be rewritten at the last minute.
My head hurts now.
Agency presented several comps to client. Who liked them all. Who did the chinese menu thing–headline from A, visual from B, etc. = moo shu meshugenah.