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Subject: [Leica] Faces (and other body parts) of advertising
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Sep 28 11:43:42 2005
References: <433A2CFA.1@planet.nl> <6.2.1.2.0.20050928074919.1fa0ee40@imap.duke.edu>

Hi Aaron,

I swear that the arrangement of the papers was as I encountered it, with 
no manipulation whatsoever. I suppose that is what attracted me to the 
scene.

As for your wife in the second picture, perhaps she has another life you 
don't know about ;-)

Cheers,
Nathan

Aaron Sandler wrote:

> Hi Nathn,
> 
> The first one is surprisingly funny...are you sure you didn't line up 
> the newspaper stuck in the mail slot and the woman's face to get the 
> flow right?!!?
> 
> As for the second one...where on earth did they get that photo of my 
> wife?  ;)
> 
> Best,
> Aaron
> 
> 
> At 01:41 AM 9/28/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> I am always on the lookout for funny/interesting images, so you get a 
>> couple that amused me during the past few weeks. When I walk downstair 
>> on a weekend morning, I am usually greeted by something like this at 
>> the front door:
>> http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/843133/1/37828277
>>
>> Last Saturday I was visiting a friend in the Belgian beach town of 
>> Koksijde and my eye caught this eye-catching ad:
>> http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/843133/1/37828278
>> I had earlier seen it on a billboard in Belgium, but now I could study 
>> it closer. It turns out to be an ad for a health insurance company 
>> that apparently gives women a discount on the health insurance premium 
>> if they breast-feed their babies (I wonder how they verify?). The 
>> slogan reads: "Of course you can earn money by exposing your breasts!"
>>
>> As much as I hate some of the junk mail and TV commercials, I must 
>> admit that ad people are some of the most creative people around.
>>
>> Nathan
> 
> 
> 
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