Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorta reminds me of an old Jeff McNelly 'Shoe' comic strip about the 'selling out' of journalism: The Perfesser musing about 'Driving the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost'. I was tempted to fondle my M3 while reading it...I confess. A nice "Fanfare for an (Un)common Man". Maybe I'll find the issue to hide with my Leica mini-library, to keep my smugness up for the next nitwit that asks: 'Is that a camera?' Charlie Dark Helmet: "Knock next time! You didn't see anything, did you?" Col. Sandurz: "No sir, I did not see you playing with your dolls again." - Mel Brooks' Spaceballs On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Richard Taylor wrote: > \On Sep 17, 2007, at 8:18 PM, G Hopkinson wrote: > >> Dick, you mean like in every single movie shown and scattered >> throughout almost any magazine? >> I thought it was a positive article on Leica, certainly. > > (snip) > > It certainly was positive and I suspect may have been written after > a personal all-expenses paid trip to Solms - or maybe even in one > of their conference rooms. As much as I like to see good stuff > written about Leica, this was a bit over the top. A couple of full > pages in the New Yorker! Yikes! Whoever arranged this really > earned their salary. > > Dick > > P.S. Let's hope it helps keep the Leica assembly lines humming. > >> Cheers >> Hoppy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: Re: [Leica] new yorker magazine: the cult of leica >> >> Boy, talk about incredible, stupendous, unbelievably, fantastic >> product placement... >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2007, at 1:08 PM, leo wesson wrote: >> >>> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_lane >>> >>> -- >>> Leo Wesson >>> Photographer/Videographer >>> 817.733.9157 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Charlie Meyer West Virginia Coordinator Basset Rescue of Old Dominion, Inc. (BROOD) Droolassic Park Keyser, WV Basset Hound Rescue: Work With Women. Pick Up Dogs.