Image post up at If it Has a Name, from the Nagasaki Lantern Festival. There I was, peacefully pondering the remarkable level of Oedipal tension subcontext in Back to the Future 2, when we found a manga-ka doing portraits for a measly grand. Mine, as I mention on If it Has a Name, is similar [...]
Posts Tagged ‘India’
An idea whose time has come
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, Culture, India, internet, Japan, Japanese, Media, scifi on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Endorsionists
Posted in Culture, Media, tagged ads, books, comics, India, photos on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Photo post finally up at If it has a name know it. I would have loved to build up a portfolio of examples of Indian advertising, which is simultaneously more primitive and more advanced than anywhere else. The wit, the sex, the ubiquitous dead-eyed celebrity endorsionists, the absolute clarity of impulse; it all walks the [...]




