You have to admire the hubris required for this masterpiece. The reflection is the wrong way round? The laws of physics will obey the dictates of the Monro Muffler Company. Cars don't really have wing mirrors bigger than your head? We have suspended reason. Pray we do not suspend it any more.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Monro: Now Open In Bizarro World
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reflections are hard work
The sad thing is, the whole layout isn't really necessary for selling mufflers. Wholly avoidable.
Objects in mirror maybe stupider than they appear...
*The changing from sunlight to moonlight
Reflections of my life – oh, how they fill my eyes
The greetings of people in trouble
Reflections of my life – oh, how they fill my eyes
All my sorrow – sad tomorrow...*sing*
Finally...a mirror!
Are you sure that's a mistake? That this isn't an ad for Relffum Ornom?
That looks like a truck to me, and truck mirrors can get surprisingly large. The only thing that's a real problem to me is the "reflection".
Ken is my favorite person. I snorted.
At least they got the highlights and shadows on her face coming from the right direction, right???
She's wearing a muffler.
If you are looking up along the side of the car/truck (as we are) wouldn't you see the person sitting in the drivers seat as the reflection in the mirror?
Word verification : rhetorical
I think this one's covered by the enormous blanket known as artistic license. Pedants like us lot can still pick at it all day long though
maybe the whole mall is inside her car
Is it just me or does anyone find it odd that there is no door? Only a mirror attached to something...
The snow/breath over the mirror looks too good to be PSd. I'm guessing the picture was just flipped as the text was backwards in the original picture. Of course that means she's leaning out the passenger window.
Benny, the designer's artistic license should be revoked.
I'd like to see the whole picture as I can't imagine what kind of vehicle is only 4 feet long, has a mirror the size of a planet and has text all over it's rear.
Forget the fact that the reflection is the wrong way round, the whole image just confuses my brain ... its one massive reality paradox ... like a lava lamp in the form of advertising.
Kudos to the design team, they kept me staring and I'm now very much aware of their product.
(possible slogan) It may be snowing, but it's only raining and backwards at Monro
I don't think anyone realizes that there's only one error in this design. That would have to be that these silly people have their shop's garage doors open in winter.
I saw that lady in Backwardsland, MI one time... she just has a really tiny head... and she's a vampire.
could it be a magic mirror??
XD
I think they gave her Molly Shannon's head, too.
It's not a mirror, it's a magnifying lens looking at a shop in the distance.. ;)
lol @L. Shepherd
I thought the same thing when I saw it. Molly Shannon FTL!
amazing!. I don't know what the real disaster is but I've been looking at this for a long while wondering... is she in a chopper? is it a pickup truck and was she comped into it? man... too many questions...
If she's supposedly parked in front of this muffler place, then it's out in the middle of NOWHERE! There's nothing across the street.
This is a still from a movie based on a Steven King novel.
On a snowy night a woman stops in an isolated villiage because the muffler has fallen off her giganto SUV. The only shop open is Monro Muffler where the staff seems just a bit strange for some reason she can't quite figure out...
No, you guys just don't get it!
Haven't you ever noticed that the word AMBULANCE or PARAMEDICS is spelled mirrored on the front of the ambulance?
They did that on purpose.
The same reason why Monro Muffler put Monro Muffler flipped on their store front so that everyone who looks back in their mirror sees it the right way around.
There's seriously nothing wrong with this picture.
:D
I'm gonna t4ell ya, my bro's Cadillac Escalade has huge mirrors..
Since she stopped using her rear-view mirrors long ago, the Molly Shannon look-a-like obviously sold the advertising space to Monro Muffler, so it's just a picture glued onto the mirror. Still not sure how that's going to sell mufflers though.
I bet all those people who painted ECNALUBMA on emergency service vehicles feel reeeeeeeal stupid now :-D
Rather than a muffler, I think the bigger problem with this car is that it's missing a driver's side door...
I can only find 2 minor mistakes:
1. The mirror is the size of Germany and attached to a non-door
2. The angle of the mirror is so wrong that I'm surprised that the car didn't crash, or get crashed into, on the way to the "artist's impression".
Since no one else has said anything.
did you notice the guy standing in the open door(s) in short sleeves waving goodbye in a snowstorm.
You can argue that the whole ad part of this photo is too small to serve its purpose anyway--even without the obvious reflection problem.
Linda Barker?
I'm guessing that the guy in the shop door is supposed to be waving goodbye to her ... and she's leaning out to fondly smile back ... while driving an SUV.
So the actual disaster here is the snow. Obviously she's from Scottsdale, AZ.
Aw, people, don't you all get it? Monro is cleverly advertising an expansion of its product range by now offering suspensions of disbelief!
This is totally not a disaster, I can totally twist my car like that, this is what beautiful cars really look like, etc, etc.
Lollerskates!
Why so uncharitable about this? It's graphic art, not photo-realism. The necessary elements are brought forward, unnecessary ones removed. Would you say to Dail "but watches DON'T melt!". Yes, I guess some of you lot would!
Not a PSD. She has actually backed up to a giant mirror that is set at a 45 Degree angle to the muffler shop, so we are looking at a reflection of a reflection. Pretty simple, really.
exalted wombat:
Are you saying this is a serious work of surrealist art?
P.S. Who's Dail?
Word Verification: vitylime
Meh.
So they put the reflection backward so it'd be readable. Stupid? Yes. Disaster? Well, since it likely was intentional, I'd say no.
And I've seen mirrors easily that large on a number of SUVs. Many people just like to see bad photoshopping where there really is none.
Consider this: the person that did this, according to many here, made tons of mistakes and photoshopped the woman in at the wrong size, yet somehow managed to think to place a well done reflection of her head in the vehicle's paint.
Right.
woah was that a star wars reference there?
Munro's is open!
Heath, where are you seeing this reflection of her head?
Scratch that; I see it now.
You have to admit that this is a brilliant use of the Thomas Kinkade snow filter, though.
As for the reflection, how do you know there isn't someone walking past behind her with a giant plate mirror? Huh? Double reflection for the win. And the aftermarket Jumbo Wing Mirrors.
The rearview mirror is showing a reflection of another mirror, which is showing a reflection of the storefront. No PSD! This site sucks!
But seriously, folks: the graphic artist should be arrested for DWI: Designing While Intoxicated.
Is that Molly Shannon?
That sign next to her car, surely she would have hit that down with her gigantic mirror? She's clearly not looking where she's going anyway.
I am 90% positive the woman in this ad is Nicole Moore.
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