Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, your comment regarding the silliness about Hollywood types reminds me of the amusing headline about the Oscars ceremony in the satirical web site Daily-Mash. "millionaires give prizes to other millionaires for dressing up and pretending to be somebody else" :-) Frank --- On Mon, 13/10/08, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Promotions? > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Monday, 13 October, 2008, 12:55 AM > Hoppy you addressed your post correctly! Ted & Tina! :-) > > We think a like! :-) > > This silliness of playing to the mentally challenged > Hollywood types, > regardless if Brad got paid a ton of money or not as all > that points up any > idiot Hollywood type can sell pictures of any other > Hollywood type, good, > bad or ugly! And only because the magazine readers of this > crap are as > shallow of mind as a dried creek bed! > > So much for my rant on the Hollywood scene and stupid Leica > promotion > garbage! > > Maybe some day Leica will get it right and use real users > of Leica gear > rather than relying on the ?big name types!? > > A promo example of what they were hand that would have > shown the world the > kind of great photography possible with a Leica is our book > LUG book! > ?Family of Man 2!? > > > > Hell if Leica had two pennies worth of intelligence they > could?ve used the > book as their biggest international promotion package ever > handed to them by > an international group of Leica, ?USING FOR REAL > PHOTOGRAPHERS!!!!? > > I suppose there?s an answer to this stupidity? > > Oh well back to the meds or a Single malt Scotch whichever > I get to first! > :-( > > ted > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Geoff > Hopkinson > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 4:23 PM > To: 'Leica Users Group' > Subject: RE: [Leica] Promotions? > > > > Now Ted, I mean Tina, don't be too grumpy ;-) > > I think maybe the gossip magazine text should be > discounted. At least I only > > see two ladies in stylish evening frocks. The ladies are > showing the new > > compacts. I think that the C-LUX is being marketed as a > stylish fashionable > > camera. I don't think that Leica has any connection > with Batgwa.com, > > whatever that is. They seem to have just used the photo > from the Leica night > > with their gossip article. Even that is very much less > trashy to me than > > anything I see in the media that concerns Hollywood bad > girls. The article > > actually says that Bernice has just returned from Greenland > from filming a > > TVB travelogue and she loves taking pictures. When she was > in Greenland, she > > captured a lot of scenery and memories on her camera. > Doesn't sound too bad, > > does it? > > Did you see that Brad Pitt has sold pictures by him of > Angelina for some > > obscene amount of money? I think he uses an M6? Do you > think that it should > > be pictures of Brad with his M instead? > > > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > Aber Masse kann Klasse nicht ersetzen....Aber die R10 > kommt. > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Subject: [Leica] Promotions? > > > > LUG: > > > > Yuck! How much money does Leica spend on this kind of > garbage: > > > > <http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=1263>Charmaine Sheh > Says Kevin Is Faithful > > batgwa.com - London,UK Charmaine Sheh (?e????) and > Bernice Liu (??????) > > appeared in some sexy low-cut dresses for the Leica Night > promotion for the > > camera brand yesterday. ... > > > > > > Tina > > > > Tina Manley > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1721 - Release > Date: 10/12/2008 > 12:00 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information