http://www.townx.org/blog/elliot/nathan_barley Comments for "Nathan Barley" en http://www.townx.org/blog/elliot/nathan_barley <p>I've been taking the rise out of the Wasp T12 mobile phone adverts which have recently appeared on bus stops. I genuinely thought they were real adverts, and was scoffing with my friends at their ridiculousness. The advert claims "It's well weapon" and calls it a "speechtool", and shows a heavily designed phone in yellow and black stripes.</p> <p>Last Friday night, I watched the new Chris Morris project "Nathan Barley", featuring an idiot DJ who has a Wasp T12. At one point, he explains how it has a large 5 key because this is the most commonly-used number, and demonstrates the MP3 decks which are available when you flip it open. I still didn't twig.</p> <p>At lunch time today, I looked up the <a href="http://trashbat.co.ck/">Nathan Barley website</a>, and found a <a href="http://trashbat.co.ck/index_t12.html">Flash movie</a> advertising the Wasp T12. At this point, the penny dropped: the whole phone and the advertising campaign are a massive hoax and publicity stunt for the programme. I was well and truly duped. By the way, the programme is excellent (in my opinion, of course), brilliantly satirising the iPod generation and vacuous media types.</p> http://www.townx.org/blog/elliot/nathan_barley#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:58:00 -0600 elliot 73 at http://www.townx.org