June 12, 2009
Dietrich Wegner, Cumulous Brand, Sabine & Sebastian
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this is not a real question …
But it is a true representation of one version of current reality.
i’m grappling with this very issue at the job I just started (Scholastic) where I’m developing sponsored and branded microsites for school kids, some even sponsored by the car and junk-food companies. It seems they are going at em at a younger and younger age.
Well, we all know the real money is in the endorsements.
Sigh.
It is inevitable, Derek, so I’m hard-pressed to know what to say.
i’ve always wondered when athletes will start having branded tattoos that they get paid royally for. In the future I envision athletes just being billboards.
Yes, if you earn as much, say, as Tiger Woods, you can have just one discreet Nike swoosh. Otherwise, you deck yourself out like a NASCAR car.
Everytime I buy a new cycling jersey I put on the first time and think, “Vishnu, I should be paid to wear this thing.”
apparently paid tattoos have been around in the boxing world since 2002: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1025145/index.htm.
Looking for some more recent signs…
“For example, the side of the horse’s neck is a prime spot.”
After years, my mind still reels thinking about the day someone said, “Hey, we can get them to wear our ads — and pay us for the privilege!”
And we became what we beheld.
forget sports, what about the porn industry?
http://www.prweb.com/releases/wow/gold/prweb2472064.htm
“The company feels that her natural dd sized breasts will provide an ample space for the advertisement.”
Those babies are totally copying The Art Guys and their Todd Oldham suits, right? Get some new ideas, babies!
http://www.theartguys.com/SUITS.html
I don’t know how to post links, by the way.
Yeah, you’d think that babies, of all people, would have some fresh ideas.
Derek, you didn’t tell me it was Scholastic you were working for! (I’m a retired school librarian, remember?)
That kid on the right could’ve been my toddler brother if I’d had a toddler brother.
Lawzy, Renner.
You’re right.
That kid looks like Deron’s and Amy’s little neighbor-girl, the one who reminds Amy of you.,
Yeah, don’t laugh. I take jobs in education when times get tough. In 2003 I stooped as low as Princeton Review. Gotta thank George Bush for something with his no child left behind shit.