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Uniquely Canadian Stock Photography from CIRA
- mooncake 7y agoUniquely Canadian stereo types
- tehlike 7y agoSorry!
- gpm 7y agoNo igloos yet, I'm disappointed.
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoWhen I was growing up a guy on my street had a dog sled and people would drive their snowmobiles to high school. Sad to see that my culture is not represented here.
- apacheCamel 7y agoThere is something amazing about stock photography that I always enjoy. Some of the situations the models are in are just absurd. I would love to know what the person responsible for coming up with the scenes is thinking. It seems CIRA really went above and beyond here.
- joshspankit 7y agoThis is just a Canadian layman’s view, but I suspect it was something like “What’s with those ridiculous stock images that keep getting made? Always such unrealistic scenarios...” “Hey, you know... We could probly do something about that...” “You read my mind, but also let’s put Canadian stuff in ridiculous ways.” “Ooo yeah, a real pastiche!” “It’s really more of a parody, but call it whatever you like.”
- paulgb 7y agoFor non-Canadians, CIRA is the registration authority of Canada's TLD (.ca)
- kenned3 7y agoAs a Canadian i find these pictures weird. It seems to imply that women outnumber men yet statistics canada indicates this is not the case? Lumberjack guy and two women Lone female hockey player Women drinking beer We dont need to take opportunity to push a political message, sometimes we just have stock photos without careful screening to meet some agenda.
- apacheCamel 7y agoI think you are reading too much into stock photography. I don't really think they are trying to imply anything other than being a little silly.
- klyrs 7y agoLook, bub, they've got ketchup chips, poutine, canadian tuxedos, business meetings about the maple syrup reserve... are you gonna complain about the anatomical inaccuracy of the moose, too? Otoh... I'm not really sure why this got posted to HN... it's just a dumb joke. My gf sent me this gallery of butt-shaped mushrooms... are we posting those here now? edit: come on folks, I'm not posting that here, you know how to search the internet
- technothrasher 7y agoMy gf sent me this gallery of butt-shaped mushrooms... And you're holding out on us???!!??
- james_pm 7y agoI'd upvote that. Post it and reap the sweet, sweet HN karma!
- endorphone 7y agoCIRA's humorous and rather interesting marketing campaign is kind of interesting in the tech sphere, especially to Canadians.
- gpm 7y agoConvince .as to buy it and publish it as a stock photo gallery!
- asmosoinio 7y agoThese are brilliant, I hope companies or other organizations from other countries follow suite.
- nogabebop23 7y agosure these are stereotypes but so many Canadian stereotypes are good ones - let's lean in!
- bransonf 7y agoI guess you could say they’re discussing hockey-stick growth in those businesses meetings...
- buboard 7y agoi can see this becoming commonplace. Instead of paying for stock photos , being paid to use them , with product placement.
- achow 7y agoLike what Unsplash did? Introducing Unsplash for Brands. A new model for imagery and brand building. https://medium.com/unsplash/introducing-unsplash-for-brands-3b60d1b4ad0c https://medium.com/unsplash/introducing-unsplash-for-brands-...
- notatoad 7y agohuh, that's pretty clever. I wondered how unsplash was going to monetize.
- rcaught 7y agoI would like to see him holding a BlackBerry, but I think we all understand the reality.
- jszymborski 7y agoOh dear... far nicer than this would have been stock photos which are noticeably in Canadian cities. Couple laughing outside Atwater/Kensington market over a chocolatine/timbits, person working on laptop with Capilano bridge in sight, something about a rodeo? But yah... we can pretend "holding an axe in a conference room" is super relatable/useful :P
- brosinante 7y agoLet people have fun.
- Numberwang 7y agoThis is hacker news. I have read all about fun and have several years experience in it (I also have this in Haskell, Paul Graham and Material Design). These days I have moved on from having fun to telling my wife (we met through an algorithm) what she does wrong. Someday a comment on HN will make me very rich, somehow.
- jszymborski 7y agoI'm not trying to prevent others from having fun, I'm just stating that it isn't fun for me, a member of their target audience and an owner of a .ca domain. Furthermore, I don't think I personally know many people that are amused by "boardroom lumberjack" that aren't people not from Canada. That being said, if it's your cup of maple syrup, then be my plaid-wearing, beaver-trapping, boardroom lumberjack guest:)
- joshspankit 7y agoAs a different member of their target audience, and an owner of .ca domains I think this is a nice humorous nod to the Canada I enjoy: subversive, self-aware, inclusive, and experimental. Usually I ignore CIRA for being uninspired, but today they got my attention.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoEverything you listed is already highly represented when it comes to Canada. Let the rest of the country have a second of attention and you might discover why they despise urbanites so much. Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver already have enough attention as it is. Not everything has to be about them.
- chiefalchemist 7y ago> Seriously, these are free? Yup, like health care or love. That's just genius.
- kstenerud 7y agoOh good! Being an expat, one pet peeve of mine is how people tend to freak out whenever I bring my axe to the office. With these, I can politely nudge them to rectify their cultural intolerance :)
- gumby 7y agoI don't know about the moose...I encountered one up in Atikaki and, well, I wished I was anywhere but there (luckily he ignored me). Playing basketball with a moose is just foolish.
- herodotus 7y agoThere should be a picture of someone getting complex surgery without having to pay a single cent.
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- flamtap 7y agoOnly thing missing is a Mountie writing someone a traffic ticket.
- jasoneckert 7y agoThese pictures are funny because some of the stereotypes are true. For example, those lumberjack shirts from Marks Work Warehouse are total chick magnets here in Ontario.
- mizzao 7y agoFree "like healthcare"... sigh.