Every once in awhile you run into somebody who asks whether subcultures inspire advertising or advertising inspires subcultures. But worse than that question are the guys who actually try to find out whether they can in fact create a subculture out of astroturf.
Thus prepared, we give you Shakerboarding: the happy (?) marriage of breakdancing and advertising. The sport’s headline athlete, Roto, shakerboards outside of CiCi’s Pizza in order to draw customers in.
Shakerboarding and Roto were developed by Deutsch LA with the help of Feed Company, the guys responsible for Ray Ban’s Never Hide campaign, which was similarly puzzling but perhaps less contrived than inventing a sport. (Unfortunately we can’t all be JK Rowling.)
Check Roto out at yoroto.com.
