Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hell, a urinal was good enough for Marcel Duchamp in his classic "found art" piece he titled "Fountain." Should have been more than good enough for the publisher!!! Brilliant book idea IMHO :-) Scott Ted Grant wrote: > OK a side story to this wierdest of weird topics. :-) > > Back in the '80's while on assignment through western Canada the crew > I was working with as we went town to town had a major sampling of > what one might call.. "Urinals of Western Canada." usually discovered > in the local hotel bar. > > We kicked the idea around about doing a book on... "Urinal's of the > World." And because we were a crew of 7 guys and one female.... the > boss. These guys were all well travelled about the world, so we talked > about the weird ones we'd seen and or used during our travel assignments. > > So urinals became a major topic of discussion. Much to the boss's > amazement that we'd spend so much time talking about a subject she > didn't have any experince with. :-) And certainly no interest in. ;-) > > The director and myself put together a book proposal with all the > locations the guys brought up during conversations, along with > descriptions etc. I think one of the best book proposal presentations > I've ever seen. :-) I mean it only required lots of money for travel > and a brilliant publisher to understand the fun concept.:-) > > I presented it to a Toronto publisher, unfortunately a female owner of > the publishing house and she was completely disgusted with the idea > and I was out the door! :-( Pity. :-) > > So nothing ever happend to the idea. :-( So if you folks, well OK the > guys? ;-)Those with nothing better to do, you could start a "Urinal a > Week!" series. ;-) > > Hey your welcome I thought you'd like the idea! ;-) > > ted > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)