Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Bailey wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:02 AM > Subject: RE: [Leica] An evening with James Nachtwey > > > BTW, whoever > >posted a comment saying that Inferno is too large - I got a look at the > >Newton book complete with coffee table - now THAT is a stupid idea. > > > >Julian > >----- Original Message ----- > > > <snip> > > There was an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer created a coffee table book > about coffee tables. Plus, it had folding out legs making it -- a small > coffee table. I wonder if the Seinfeld people got the "Idea" from the Newton > book. Either way, it seems stupid to me... Not that there is anything wrong > with that... > > Jeff > fish-boy@mindspring.com Maybe not. They correctly envisioned people having the book laid out on the middle of the living room carpet and the cat coming in and stakeing out a territory in the middle of it. And/or dog, kids. Spending all that money on a thing and being able to look through it without getting throwing your back and neck out was the not too dumb thought I think. Mark Rabiner