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Here are some illustrations I did for a Fred Richards article in AdWeek. I worked from Fred’s sketches and some of my own, then illustrated them in the IB style in adobe illustrator .. no photoshop!…. It’s cool that this is my job … I sketch all the time, just moving pens around paper at various times … I used to get in trouble for drawing during class instead of my work … terrible grades …
which makes me wonder … I was watching a show about moguls of hollywood on TCM last night. The leaders of those major studios were not highly educated, 6th grade education for one, drop outs for others, there are still many things you can’t learn from a book, or professor. Its a dog eat dog world. To be pack leader you have to assert your dominance. I was never one to do that. I think I may be smarter than you average bear, but I lack the constant vigilance to be a pack leader. The fortitude to dig in and bite the neck of the rest of the pack every hour and every minute of every day … the people I know who are successful at it have that drive … or an obsession with power. Even in school men align themselves to a pecking order, you can challenge it but there is always a newer younger dog being born waiting for his chance to take you out … that is the shit part about getting old, after a while you are just like fuck it, you want to do it? go for it… then you are put out to pasture with the other old bulls … eating grass and dreaming of the glory days. Some dogs never get the chance to be pack leader, they always wish they could.. That is why men engage in family making, because among your family, you are usually the biggest, even if you can’t dominate your world, you can dominate a baby. For a while you get to teach them and say I am smarter than you baby! But eventually they grow up and become a smarter younger version of you. and once again you are battling for dominance.
Some people don’t get that at home so they bring it to work, others get it at home and leave work to someone else, then still others never get it and become bitter and old then die of heart attacks. This in a nut shell is the essence of being a man. So women be thankful, you are cherished either way …
like most rust U.S. cities cincinnati has been in a backslide for 20-30 years. When your in the middle of it, you barely notice the glacier like movements, but when you stand back you can see the grooves left in its wake. Our identity as a hard scrabble city with tough hard core characters with heart has been replace by nondescript, blank generic america. And we insist on that. Every attempt to call attention and preserve what once was has been stomped out like so many ants so the global conglomerates can come in and take their place. Pete Rose and Marge Schott were seen as these over the top personalities with crazy points of view, have moved on from our little burg and replaced by no one. There void says more than their presence .
To be a great person one must take on a better than normal point of view. This is what we lose when we homogenize all of our thinking. Great people are great because they hate the normal. So it is all or nothing. Pete wanted to win at everything all the time. eventually you lose, but he played more and harder in one day then most people do in a lifetime, He was all in, all the time. Marge took what could have been a passive role of inheritance and made it her own.
30 years ago we had an entire economy based and owned in cincinnati. An economy we could own and benefit from. 20 years ago we stood to inherit this and we passed.
Stores like Pogues, Shillitos, Swallens, Stienbergs, and many more, Hughes Music in Norwood, All have been replaced by national/ global interests. The down side is the money that is make from these ventures instead of going back into our local ecomony gets sent to other towns, and countries. So when you buy a TV from walmart the money goes to a group of people who don’t live, eat, or shop here. So it is money going out and not coming back. We get money coming in from some of our big companies, but we are in a global fight now. A fight we must win or lose everything. And yes it really is that big of a deal.
What no igloos? Iceland sandwich, with white snow like coconut, but where is the Eskimo? it should be at least frosty light blue…
unless it was in the freezer already and when you touch it, your hand became cold, then it sort of makes sense.
but then again, I really hate to be negative on anything vintage with such sweet typography, but what are the red lightning bolts about? “This candy is shockingly good”
or “Hazard to try our Iceland Sandwich?” or “Warning: awesome candy enclosed”
oh well my mind is somewhere else today, I think I saw it lashing together some logs down on the Ohio river bank, getting ready to embark on a scenic tour of the grand waterway, floating slowly down to the pacific. “hey brain! don’t leave yet, you have to finish your work!” but alas it is too far away. we are a small figure on the bank waving hard but look to be the size of an ant to our brain…
