Personally, I'd just like to be able to quit doing advertising for a month and go build a website on the domain name I bought three years ago (on my Mac, of course, thus keeping this discussion ever so marginally on topic) - except I'd probably just waste the time playing the Sims or something anyway. Let me go on record, however, as saying that I for one would be terrified at the prospect of one corporate entity providing my entire advertising support, on the one hand because I would be forever looking over my shoulder to see if they were about to execute a "change of strategic direction" that would leave me bereft of income, and on the other because I suspect it would be a short time indeed before I found out the hard way just where those strings were attached.
On Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > Dan, I don't even dispute that these ads are sometimes very crafty, > artistic , have esthetic value ,great photography and ,in > intervals,are even clever, and it is my own personal gripe that they > are always mixed up with content and that, especially in the TV > setting, they become annoying in their droning and repetitious > efforts to penetrate the brains of us dumblings ,and with me they have > the opposite effect. I will not buy those products. Of course this is > childish. One person can't make any difference in this deluge, but it > is the curse of the gnome against the goliath which allows me to do > some venting, so my own soul stays in equilibrium. I sometimes have > this crazy dream that some big corporations might pay out of > magnanimity and only on the back page of a magazine or at the end of a > show it would say in plain or fancy letters, in black or color: this > product or production was helped by the generous efforts of the > 'Soandso" company.And all the artistic talent and know-how could be > used for valuable endeavors in the human realm, as a true expression > of the artist's vision, not bound by advertising limits and > correctness. Incidentally, I just last week called your office to > renew my subscription for another two years. - And- since I know now > you are using the Adobe in Design, I shall take a trip downtown > sometime to see all this procedure in action. > You guys are something else! I learned a lot in these recent > exchanges. I might even try my new found knowledge and print my own > brochure on "ME's philisophical Musings" as they were brought about > by contributions of the group and I would make sure it would be > dedicated to this group. The acknowledgments would probably take more > space than the brochure itself. > Marta > On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:21, Dan Crutcher wrote: | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
