Subliminal Message(s) to Blog

I walked out of a bank yesterday after paying my rent and saw an interesting banner on a street corner that seemed to be telling me to blog about something.  As I got closer I realized that the banner actually swivels around in the wind and that I was looking at the backside of it (here’s the front).  Turns out to be an ad for an exhibition of Inka Gold, but seen from behind it sends a message to blog about something…Russian?  Who knows.  In any case, here I am blogging about the exhibit, which is possibly what someone wanted.

But the real advertising award of the day goes to Coca-Cola for, apparently overnight, replacing their gigantic billboards that suggested Germany would win the World Cup in 2006 with gigantic billboards suggesting they’d do so in 2010.  Man, that was slick.  There couldn’t have been time following Germany’s crash-and-burn last night to make these building-sized signs, so it means some marketing whiz and his bookie came up with the plan in advance.  Pretty clever.