Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] re: Toilets
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Fri Feb 17 15:02:20 2006
References: <a32e5d10602171015r30d9cb1ck47b1ad88b5f31ba@mail.gmail.com> <C01B8AEA.1D946%jdos2@mindspring.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20060217201726.02fa8f98@screengang.com> <6b9bd80a0602171322y3c5dcfd6j@mail.gmail.com> <1380863E-8115-4858-ABB1-1FB3EC10405D@ralgo.nl> <43F6498F.4030208@adrenaline.com> <008e01c63414$af62dd00$2ee76c18@ted>

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
>
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In reply to: Message from jwlee01 at gmail.com (John Lee) ([Leica] re: Toilets)
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Message from bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce) ([Leica] re: Toilets)
Message from scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin) ([Leica] re: Toilets)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] re: Toilets)