The Art Predator has been posting some interesting bloggoland analyses of late which reminded me of an attempt I made earlier this year to tap into the advertising potential of Maekitso’s Cafe. Need some space? Let’s do lunch.
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Space
Negotiable, valuable
Locating, positioning, accommodating
Place
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Do you have a product or service that needs placing?
Looking for a unique way to communicate your message to a discerning readership?
Try my brand new Cinqu-ad. Embed your website in a five line stanza and watch your brand reputation hit ‘diamond-like’ proportions.
December 16, 2008 at 6:14 pm |
yes i’ll take a diamond or two! sign me up!!
Excellent! I’ve got ‘creative’ working on it now. ;)
December 17, 2008 at 11:31 am |
I don’t know, Brad. Mixing art and advertising? Aren’t you afraid of being accused of prostitution or even worse, pop art or worse of all, postmodern irony? Trying to earn a living from your art in creative, innovative ways? I don’t think Shakespeare or Dickens or Picasso or Dali or Ginsberg or Warhol or Michaelangelo, oh hang on, yes they did. Cool bananas,
Well I reckon it’s about time someone accused me of something, Paul.
December 19, 2008 at 4:27 am |
i dont know why this came to mind but somehow..’the performance of creative enterprise
with limitless stage pon which it plays’ also it made me remember jay jaroslav a new england artist who stole identities from death certificates of infants and documented it as performance art, spanning the 70’s he lived as several different identities, before ‘identity theft’ as we know it today. somebody somewhere always does something a little different that effects a myriad down the line. this can be both good and *bad*
Thanks for pointing out the potential for good and bad that arises from creative work, Tipota. A lot of ideas can be expressed without creative intent and still have the same effect, I think. Recounting a violent dream for instance, or expressing fear and hatred publicly. Poetry is an ideal environment for the placement of catchphrases and propoganda, and the cinquain has a particularly unique form for the placement of such. In this case, the cinqu-ad asks, “what about advertising in poetry”? Maybe advertising in poetry, whether made implicit or explicit, can be perfectly innocent and harmless. Should we be concerned about advertising in poetry any more than we should be concerned about violence or eroticism or pornography in poetry? Does the cinqu-ad raise more important questions?
December 20, 2008 at 10:33 am |
Alright then I’ll accuse of being intimidating. Your obvious intelligence and that black beany on that nugget head. Did you play football? Do you know that in the outback to this day if you drain your glass and smack it down on the bar upside down that is a general invitation to take any bastard in the room outside and…sorry, poetry, that’s right. I’ll accuse you off a great deal of intelligence and cleverness, control, structure but, on occassion a lack of believable sentiment or emotion. The poems are always impressive but sometimes they aren’t convincing.
The beanie is an artificial construct, Paul. Beneath it is the balding head of a fairly average bloke who has been silent for the best part of 40 years. Self-expression is like a beanie. It keeps your head warm for a bit but then it starts making you itch and sweat. I do find it a bit uncomfortable at times, and it probably shows. Thanks for the honesty. Honesty is good. Maybe I need to find a good hemp beanie.
December 20, 2008 at 10:34 am |
and then I will run away and hide,
December 20, 2008 at 6:50 pm |
O clever you
while criticism is helpful, generally, I will say, from what little I’ve seen…i tend to feel you come across. So that’s pretty believable.
Thanks Amuirin. You mustn’t have seen the bit that Paul saw…. lol. Now if Paul will just come out of hiding and tell me which post/s are guilty…
December 21, 2008 at 1:51 pm |
any & all forms of communication as all matter or maybe antimatter too, r related so you cant have an action w/o a reaction lets say to be simple. then of course it becomes a choice, what is it, does it say or wish to say, maybe even where issit coming from energywise. a creative act cant help but project its originating or derivative nature
aside from that, perhaps l more awareness about advertising w/o a preconception of its value (is one good way not to encounter subliminal suggestion unwittingly) advertising to me is blatantly obvious only cuz i know the tricks from having worked in its realm perhaps maybe is it possible to endure maybe or better accept the whatever it may be with zenlike nonattachment or something to clear a space for the authentic whatever-it-is
btw the interesting thing about the artist i mentioned is that he was finally prosecuted by law and also documented that whole thing as performance. during the course of his court hearings many people who otherwise would not been exposed to such ‘radical’ ideas of identity were challenged to observe their sensibilities. and he got off because he proposed a way for the system to better document their birth/death records so that no one else would be able to do what he did undetected. so what is *good* and what is *bad* ultimately we dont know so i say focus on the art of it the dance the prance the joy of it -also there might be zillions of possible events/reactivities right? whos gonna try to steer that ship, goodness knows ha ha sorry for being so longwinded, but i was also working recently on a spacetime sort of piece, thanks