Comments on: Story time: aka commerce gets more cultural http://cultureby.com/2008/10/lt-font-defin.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:35:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: katy http://cultureby.com/2008/10/lt-font-defin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1129 katy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:55:50 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-1129 <p>is it the wine or is this post easier to read?</p> is it the wine or is this post easier to read?

]]> By: Rick Liebling http://cultureby.com/2008/10/lt-font-defin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1128 Rick Liebling Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:30:35 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-1128 <p>Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is exactly the sort of idea I'd like to see my clients (including a major alcohol company) embrace. Improv Everywhere is genius because it isn't done in support of brands, but their remarkable, disruptive cultural events are what brands need to do more of. Give people a memorable story.</p> Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is exactly the sort of idea I'd like to see my clients (including a major alcohol company) embrace. Improv Everywhere is genius because it isn't done in support of brands, but their remarkable, disruptive cultural events are what brands need to do more of. Give people a memorable story.

]]> By: Charles Frith http://cultureby.com/2008/10/lt-font-defin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1127 Charles Frith Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:57:57 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-1127 <p>Hello Grant The roundhouse kick in the face for old marketing you've just delivered is for me, in the title part of 'commerce gets more cultural.' Thus signaling the welcome demise of culture getting more commercial. I dont know a better way to describe whats going on in these astonishing times. Expect rampant intellectual robbery on that one. It's Gold!</p> Hello Grant The roundhouse kick in the face for old marketing you've just delivered is for me, in the title part of 'commerce gets more cultural.' Thus signaling the welcome demise of culture getting more commercial. I dont know a better way to describe whats going on in these astonishing times. Expect rampant intellectual robbery on that one. It's Gold!

]]> By: srp http://cultureby.com/2008/10/lt-font-defin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1126 srp Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:54:22 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-1126 <p>In a way, your storyteller ploy is like trying to create a "sunken ship" in the bar (to use a phrase you've employed before referring to people colonizing the carcasses of old movies and TV shows the way fish colonize rusting undersea hulks). It's an interesting idea.</p> <p>Practically, I'd be worried that no one would even notice what the guy was drinking. Maybe he could buy a whole bottle and wave it around during his soliloquy.</p> In a way, your storyteller ploy is like trying to create a "sunken ship" in the bar (to use a phrase you've employed before referring to people colonizing the carcasses of old movies and TV shows the way fish colonize rusting undersea hulks). It's an interesting idea.

Practically, I'd be worried that no one would even notice what the guy was drinking. Maybe he could buy a whole bottle and wave it around during his soliloquy.

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