Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to beat a dead horse - ah, what the hell, they can't bite or kick ;-) - but what major documentarian hasn't done commissioned work of one kind or another? Good God, Eugene Richards has done ad campaigns for Nike and Levis, Mary Ellen Mark regularly does commercial work, and on and on. And perhaps I'm delusional at this point on a rainy Sunday, but wasn't Salgado an economist with some sort of Latin America coffee growers cooperative or some such? On 10/1/06 5:03 PM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote: > Philippe > > I had a Nespresso machine in my office before Amici Caff?/Illy became my > client. I got a X1 espresso machine and a few kg of coffee beans. I have > given > away the Nespresso machine as well as about 200 capsules of coffee, for > free > and without regrets. Nespresso is at least three floors below Illy. It's > like > comparing a a 1999 Rioja Conde de Valdemar (certainly a fine all day red > wine), to a 1979 Ch?teau Mouton-Rothschild Grand Cru Class?. > > The Amici (swiss illy) website I've recently created is in french, too, > find > some interesting articles about how illy is: > > -handling the production of coffee*: > http://tinyurl.com/j8fhk > > -tasting Coffee*: > http://tinyurl.com/m5ckk > > -selectioning the raw goods: > http://tinyurl.com/gg9hl > > -practising "Commerce ?quitable": > http://tinyurl.com/f95zw > > (*flash player required) > > Cheers > Didier > > >> This one ain't bad either: >> http://www.nespresso.com/precom/n_home_be_en.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information