Brian, you misread me: Nobody speaks of one monopoly. Fifty or so companies could pledge to support all kinds of efforts, and film makers, magazine owners, project designers all could chase around asking for funding, as they are doing now anyhow, but the companies could and should show restraint , not brashly jingling their fat purses bringing about this cumulative effect of their repetitive and often misleading ads. But, I suppose , that is the modern way, give money, have a stadion named after you, give millions and get your Logo on top of the building you helped finance. - It is just that all these Ego-trips have gotten out of hand - way out of hand - Why can't these advertisers for once let the artists create and keep their own fat logo out of the picture or at least to a minimum. Yet, there are those in the tech branches who write new programs, open source , giving their time and effort, are driven by enthusiam, intelligence , brain power and are willing to share, to work as a team, to further the technology, and that is a solace. Just looking at Version Tracker , Wikipedia, TU Chemnitz and similar websites brings joy. Marta On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:14, B.Eric Bradley wrote:
> 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> | 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>
