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666 auf der Post

Manchmal sind die Zeichen überdeutlich! Das Paket ging mit der Nummer 667 weg. Aber warum wohl diese derart klare Warnung vor dem Einfaches Anlegen Deposito-Konto?

  • Advertisers are self-obsessed hypocrites and nihilists who gradually shape and transform our lifes into a consumerist rat-race.
  • Talented people waste their skills on bringing success to toilet paper, anti-flu medication and other equally important things.
  • Ad agencies manage to trap some of the most creative and talented people (where do you get easier cash for your talent, advertisement or art?).
  • With an ever greater gap between the budgets of advertisement and pr-firms and media companies, advertisers have a massive influence and impact on media.
  • Advertisers who order, produce, influence, undermine, buy, collect, sell art have a massive impact on art. One example: visual styles of movies who are more and more influenced by ads.
  • The bigger picture: the actual state of the world vs. what advertisers do to make it even worse.
  • The bigger picture part two: the actual state of the world vs. what the skilled people who work in advertisement could but don't do to make it better.

Boy, I'm glad I'm out of that scene! Who comes up with more rants?

Illustrator: ‘Gosh, guess what I’ve just been dreaming about. F—ing inDesign!”Graphic Designer: ‘Yeah… but those dreams used to be a lot worse with QuarkXPress…”

fake blood
mist
snazaroo white
tall men in capes ringing bells
gloomy evenings
leaves blowing in the wind
carrot, pumpkin & sweet potato stew
bonfires
all those awful horror flicks on tv
  • Salvador Allende (President of Chile; draw against Raúl Rettig)
  • Otto von Bismarck (German chancellor; draw against Georg Freiherr von Vincke)
  • Giacomo Casanova (Playboy; draw against Franz Xaver Branicki)
  • Alexandre Dumas (French writer; draw against Frédéric Gaillardet)
  • Alexander Hamilton (Co-founder of the US of A; lost against Aaron Burr)
  • Heinrich Heine (German writer; draw against Salomon Strauss)
  • Andrew Jackson (US president; won against Charles Dickinson)
  • Ferdinand Lassalle (German socialist; lost against Count von Racowitza)
  • Mikhail Lermontov (Russian poet; lost against Nikolai Martynov)
  • Marcel Proust (French writer; draw against Jean Lorrain)
  • Alexander Pushkin (Russian poet; lost against Georges d'Anthès)

This is the first post for the 'November of lists'. It's easy to slap together a list - do so!

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