I totally identify with this tote bag (from The Walrus store):

15th November 2010

Photo reblogged from Whiskey and Goats Milk with 91 notes

Hysterical, but a tad misguided; if these were Parliament or GPC or American Spirit, then they’d be more on-point. Still… whiskeyandgoatsmilk: Camel Launches Williamsburg-Brand Cigarettes Cigarettes are hip – or at least that’s what the folks over at RJ Reynolds who just designed a box of Camel smokes specifically for Williamsburgers want you to think. As part of its 10-week “Camel Break Free” campaign, the company redesigned its Camel Blue (nee Camel Lights) packaging to mirror the skylines of 10 “cool” places across the nation, including Austin, Texas,Seattle, and, naturally, the hipster’s mecca Williamsburg. While Camel’s website refers to Williamsburg as “the most famous hipster neighborhood,” it stops short of outright calling smoking the cool thing to do. “It’s not about hip, it’s about breaking free,” RJ Reynolds explains on the site. The promotional material says, “It’s about last call, a sloppy kiss goodbye and a solo saunter to a rock show in an abandoned building … It’s where a tree grows.” Now that last one’s original. And if you’re looking to boost your rep around the neighborhood, Camel urges you to try one of its Williamsburg smokes and assures you you’ll earn “serious street cred.” The campaign asks customers to buy the cigarettes and sign up for prizes on the website, which at least one blogger says Williamsburgers are much too cool to do. “The campaign might do alright with the 17-year-old poseur set inToledo, but Brooklynites will not be interested,” Andrea Bartz, co-author of “Stuff Hipsters Hate,” told the Brooklyn Paper. “After all they roll their own, or bum Parliament Lights off whomever’s outside the bar.”  (via) I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT WILLIAMSBURG. FUCK YOU.     Hysterical, but a tad misguided; if these were Parliament or GPC or American Spirit, then they’d be more on-point. Still…

whiskeyandgoatsmilk:

Camel Launches Williamsburg-Brand Cigarettes

Cigarettes are hip – or at least that’s what the folks over at RJ Reynolds who just designed a box of Camel smokes specifically for Williamsburgers want you to think.

As part of its 10-week “Camel Break Free” campaign, the company redesigned its Camel Blue (nee Camel Lights) packaging to mirror the skylines of 10 “cool” places across the nation, including Austin, Texas,Seattle, and, naturally, the hipster’s mecca Williamsburg.

While Camel’s website refers to Williamsburg as “the most famous hipster neighborhood,” it stops short of outright calling smoking the cool thing to do. “It’s not about hip, it’s about breaking free,” RJ Reynolds explains on the site.

The promotional material says, “It’s about last call, a sloppy kiss goodbye and a solo saunter to a rock show in an abandoned building … It’s where a tree grows.”

Now that last one’s original.

And if you’re looking to boost your rep around the neighborhood, Camel urges you to try one of its Williamsburg smokes and assures you you’ll earn “serious street cred.”

The campaign asks customers to buy the cigarettes and sign up for prizes on the website, which at least one blogger says Williamsburgers are much too cool to do.

“The campaign might do alright with the 17-year-old poseur set inToledo, but Brooklynites will not be interested,” Andrea Bartz, co-author of “Stuff Hipsters Hate,” told the Brooklyn Paper. “After all they roll their own, or bum Parliament Lights off whomever’s outside the bar.” 

(via)

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT WILLIAMSBURG. FUCK YOU.

 

 

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  1. gamsorama reblogged this from neighborhoodr-williamsburg
  2. justrhymenoreason reblogged this from imtoooldforthisshit and added:
    this is the kinda shit that should be illegal. fuck prop 19 - just for this i’m gonna go make some brownies.
  3. starazard reblogged this from soupsoup
  4. bbilko reblogged this from whiskeyandgoatsmilk
  5. carniesandchampagne reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    wow, camel. wow.
  6. imtoooldforthisshit reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    So a camel walks into the Turkey’s Nest…
  7. blooddiemond reblogged this from soupsoup
  8. singunchaser reblogged this from whiskeyandgoatsmilk and added:
    so fucking ridiculous! i am done...you, cigarettes.
  9. duhblog reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    This is fucking gross. Read on.
  10. veganaction reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Wow, this is some dumb shit. Marketing campaigns like this makes me hate my generation.
  11. louisandrade reblogged this from soupsoup
  12. ohkaela reblogged this from neighborhoodr-williamsburg
  13. stannate reblogged this from whiskeyandgoatsmilk and added:
    or GPC or American Spirit, then they’d be more on-point. Still…
  14. undergroundwall reblogged this from funemployed
  15. daverosado reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I really don’t need to add anything to this just excellently irritating story, but I will anyway. Let’s try and figure...
  16. fancypipes reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Urban Outfitters has a cigarette….
  17. mindambition reblogged this from neighborhoodr-williamsburg and added:
    Now I’ve seen everything. Time to get the F out.
  18. papa-bear-hustle reblogged this from lifeisatrafficjam and added:
    LOL cant wait to buy my pack today hmmm
  19. johnsurico reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    If these were real ‘Williamsburg’ cigarettes, they would be Camel Cloves.