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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    Post Secret is amazing. That is all. #branding
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    So is the Gawker logo just a colorful, stylized skid mark? #branding
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired

    Also, the Time Warner IUD seems to persist in some units to this day. #branding
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/17/09

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    Lucent doesn't see a problem with this. #branding
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    Image of SarieSarieQuiteContrary SarieSarieQuiteContrary
    11/17/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: I read that as "Lucifer." And it still made sense. #branding
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    The creative team behind the logo also suggested they replace the corporate name of Thomson with Roto. #branding
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/17/09

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    This is very confusing for those of us with outhouses. #branding
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    11/17/09

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    Does it swirl in the other direction in the southern hemisphere? #branding
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/17/09

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    This is like the time Richard Meier was hired to design the new Getty museum, and he was really looking forward to designing all of it, but then they had his archnemesis Robert Irwin design the gardens, so Meier designed the water feature that empties into the garden to resemble a stream of piss splashing down into a very large urinal. Ha ha!

    Unlike this situtation, at the end of it Meier kept the job, made his millions, and went on to make more still. #branding
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    11/17/09


    @iplaudius: I've prowled that Getty central garden many times but it never occurred to me that the the waterworks resemble an urinal stream. I think you're right, though. You're always right. #branding
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    11/17/09

    @snugbug: I’m “right” usually only when I’m reporting something: in this case, it’s a tidbit in an old New Yorker article that for some reason is lodged in my brain.

    For your reading pleasure, I looked up the article (Dec. 1997; I was 20; why was I reading this; why do I remember it; what the fuck is wrong with me), and it turns out that the urinal-analysis was Irwin’s:

    “This is where Meier was charged with delivering the water over to me. As you can see, it flows along this straight channel, cutting across his upper plaza, and then it has to descend about twenty feet to the start of my garden stream, and what he’s basically done—you can see it here—is that he’s constructed this twenty-foot-tall white urinal, the water continuously streaming—or should I say ‘flushing’—down its sides.”

    As far as I know, Meier never went on record to say that was his intention, but in my opinion Irwin’s interpretation is spot on. (And whatever their creative differences, I love what both Meier and Irwin did there.)
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/17/09

    @iplaudius: Oh, thanks for the link.

    Also, please marry me. I'm getting weary of unrequited love in the real world. I need that at least my virtual crushes be requited. No pressure, BTW. Just gently hinting that if you don't immediately reciprocate my incandescent love, I'm gonna STALK YOU FOREVER AND GO CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS AND JUMP YOUR FENCE AND KIDNAP BOTH YOU AND YOUR SNUGGIE.

    [Sobers up; flips Id off] Erm, yes. Richard Meier. Where were we? #branding
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    11/17/09

    @snugbug: I’m fed up with real-world unrequited love too. And you seem to know the way to a man’s online heart: stroke his ego (where in real life you might stroke another thing). How about a quick Facebook marriage, with status update, Vegas-style? #branding
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    11/17/09

    @iplaudius: PM-ed you. Yes. And yes, VEGAS! The American solution! Cheap fantasies for the proletariat, an obscene feast of nite-time illumination, the place where you go to sleep in a hotel and wake up with the visage of a bloated monster. (At least I do. Always. I could never figure out if it's the perpetual air conditioning or the desert voodoo-magick. I reliably look like fucking hell in Vegas. At least I can smoke indoors..) #branding
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/18/09

    @iplaudius: @snugbug: if this works out, you'll have to post all about it

    @iplaudius: bless you for this. I fing HATE that contrived irwin blight on the getty (couldn't they have just inserted some variation of an esplinade, with views, shade, and SEATING, instead of a garden which doubles as a forced march to nowhere in the hot california sunshine?), think irwin is second rate or less as an artist and only got to where he is today because of his notorious YAP and ego (was just reading an article in which one of his peers, altoon maybe, said he knew he had hit on the right idea because it made irwin STFU for once), and am pleased to hear meier might feel the same way.

    good lord, and to think people still wonder why turrell ditched him #branding
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/18/09


    @MincnglyWhrdL'mer: it was Billy Al Bengston - irwin asked him what he was going to paint next during a long overseas flight, bengston said "seargent's stripes" and irwin actually paused, for once - that's when bengston knew he had a good idea #branding
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    It's still a better logo than that London 2012 mess. #branding
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    Image of OHymenMyHymen OHymenMyHymen
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    This is the best thing in the world. #branding
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    Back in the 90's, I ran a team that designed one of the first web portals for Reed-Elsevier, the corporate parent of Lexis-Nexis.

    It looked great close up, but when you were standing 20 feet away, it looked like it said Greed-Elsevier. We got away with it for about a year. #branding
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/17/09

    @Swifter: Once again I'm reminded why I'm so fond of you. #branding
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/17/09

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    Honey, they fire me and the whole fancy-pants world of Letters goes down the terlet, counterclockwise. #branding
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    And are the spots turds? If so, I hope the creatives signed up for COBRA because they need a gastroenterologist fast. #branding
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/17/09

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    This is making me want to do something that will make me feel as good as the guy who sent this in must feel right now. Also, I love that PostSecret has been used as a "news source" twice today; I feel much better about reading it on a weekly basis. #branding
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    11/17/09

    @DahlELama: Is PostSecret a more or less reliable source than Wikipedia? #branding
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/17/09

    @Lymed: Well, if you do the math on the "jimbo wales proximity factor", it's about 3.5x more reliable and 2x less sleazy. #branding
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    11/17/09

    @DahlELama: Have you ever left a card in one of the books at a store? I did that for the first time last week, it was fun. #branding
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    The creativity behind this "joke" probably goes a long way toward explaining why this person, along with the rest of the "creative" team he/she was on, were let go. #branding
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    11/17/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: To say nothing of the length of the way creativity involved in your reading "leave" as "be let go" goes toward explaining how your conservative mind works.
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    11/17/09

    @Niko Bellic: The addendum on the PostSecret site said this person was laid off.
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