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on my finger licking list

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:47 -0600

iPhone with Hipstamatic appThe day I see this place torn down I'll lick my finger and make a check mark in the air. It's right on Main Street and it looks hideous.Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.- Anthony Trollope

beautiful wreckage

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:27 -0600

The taint of age can be very beautiful. The wreckage of man-made objects is something more beautiful than the new. Rust and weathering adds a patina of elegant gorp.- Brett Weston, (Photographer)

iMurder

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:27 -0600

self-portratit, taken with my iPhoneStill, there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder, a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.- Susan Sontag, (Photographer)

our bradford pear tree has buds

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:43 -0600

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.- Eleonora Duse

our 1st Jonquil of spring

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:40 -0600

Lensbaby 3G Selective Focus SLR Lens with Lensbaby 37mm +10 Macro LensAbout eight years ago, Carrie, our daughter planted tulip bulbs in her flower bed. The next spring the tulips bloomed and Caitlin, our granddaughter saw them, picked them and brought them to her mama. Extending the bundle of blooms upward she cheerfully said, "Look, Mama! We have flowers!" Carrie didn't get to see them on the plant that year. Blinking back tears, she thanked her wide eyed innocent daughter for the gift.Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.- Edward Payson Rod

bending together

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:00 -0600

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt. It is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.- Hal Boyle

the J. Crew bag

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:48 -0600

...doesn't display a branding because it's not about the branding. It's about the bag. Actually, the advertising comes by word of mouth because so many people say, "Oh, I love the bag! Can I ask where you bought it?"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.- Will Rogers

Daniel likes his name on the outside

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:34 -0600

Lensbaby 3G Selective Focus SLR Lens with Lensbabies 0.6x Wide Angle Lens 37mmAt least for one targeted group of consumers.Of course the shirt tail has to be left out and Dad says, "Son, you need to tuck your shirt in", and the son says, "Dad, it's supposed to be out", and pointing to the logo says, "See?", and Dad says, "Mom? Is his shirt tail supposed to be left out? It looks sloppy like that.", and Mom says, "It's the style to leave the shirt tail out. See the name? Besides, it's only to cover up the T-shirt. See how he only has the bottom three buttons buttoned?"It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.- Morris Hite

button on the fly

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:53 -0600

Lensbaby 3G Selective Focus SLR Lens with Lensbabies 0.6x Wide Angle Lens 37mmLucky brand claims no two pair of jeans are identical. This pair has inside front pockets with black clover on white background and a hidden message in the button fly. Unlike many companies Lucky branding is on the inside of the garment.The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.- John C. Crosby

moose on the shirt pocket

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36 -0600

Lensbaby 3G Selective Focus SLR Lens with Lensbabies 0.6x Wide Angle Lens 37mmThis company is one of several who use a variety of branding formats. One branding may appeal to or speak more efficiently to one targeted group than another branding format. See?Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.- Dick Wolf