I work all the time with events and promotions groups. I hate that I'm saying this but all those projects are dripping with sliminess and control hungry egos's. They tend to be focussed on getting it done with a lack of artistic and creative integrity and I find them almost impossible to work with.
Just last week I had to have someone in New York pulled off a team becasue she was so difficult in the process of producing a promotion for a Detroit auto maker I work with. I read that article and feel like I know Carol personally, I've been working with people like her for years and it's the biggest shortcoming of the advertising industry. The problem with Carol I'm guessing is she's been brought up in a world of ego';s where getting someone fired is how you handle a dispute rather than coming to an agreement. People who work like this ultimately have no team to work with and are so self destructive they end up destroying what they seeked to create. I've seen it time after time in Boston and New York. A festival of this integrity needs to be run by someone with integrity. - Giles D I G I T A S // B O S T O N -- Giles Dickerson Art Director 800 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02199 -- mobile 617 899 9635 office 617 369 8601 > ---------- > From: Lester Kenyatta Spence > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:21 AM > To: Rob Theakston > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [313] DEMF/Metro Times Article > > this is a well-written and insightful article. one problem i do have > though is that marvin is depicted as a power hungry, shrill b*tch. i > wonder how she would've been covered had she been male? even though a > woman wrote the article, i still wonder about this. > > i bought a cheap southwest ticket a few days ago so i'll be in the city > this weekend (cell phone 314-369-5513)...but while i plan to check out as > many after sets as i can, i don't know how much of the event itself i'm > going to see. there is still a chance to resurrect this festival, but the > question is whether people really want to struggle for this. there's an > implication in the article that in the beginning of the demf everything > was groovy...and then some individual (marvin) f*cked it up inexorably. > > i believe that marvin never should have fired craig. i also believe that > marvin's contract should not be renewed...and that a consortium of old > heads should run the show, if the show continues at all. but people have > to be willing to fight, and have to be willing to acknowledge the > possibility that they can still win, and through struggle make this into > something special...not special in a 2001 sense, because we can't go back > to the future. > > > peace > lks > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
