Ended up blathering to a mate on IM until 6am yesterday (today). He's working on a really exciting new media project and was asking if I fancied getting involved. The more we talked, the more exciting it sounded. Am hooking up with him to talk about the possibilities.
It's nice to have a marketing commission to go with my writing commissions. I was beginning to miss it. I've always liked juggling writing and marketing cos they're such different things; writing is solitary, marketing is sociable, writing is best done without a team (having had lawyers re-write radio scripts I'd written in the past and turn them into turgid dross, I know this to be true) and marketing is so much better with brainstorming. Although I can't stand that 'If this brand was a car, what would it be?' style of brainstorming. If you're marketing a bar of chocolate, you aren't going to be running ads showing it elegantly cruising down a mountain road. Therefore, knowing it would be a Kharmen Ghia if it was a car is irrelevant.
I always thought that getting hash dealers to sample chocolate bars would be a great way of launching a new range; associating your bar of chocolate as the munchie of choice would surely result in massive sales. If anyone could remember which chocolate bar it was they'd tried.
Have been having a great time reading about Charlie Skelton and Vicky Coren's attempts to make an ethical porn movie. I read an extract from their book Once More with Feeling and have got to buy it.
I'll steal Charlie's words to explain the book (hoping he won't mind if I repeat the urging to buy the book.)
When my friend Vicky and I set out to make our own porn film, we wanted to see if we could make 'ethical pornography' - to see if we could make an erotic film in which no one was unhappy, or getting shafted in any other than the best sense of the word. We think we succeeded. Our porn film may not be terribly erotic, but the atmosphere on set was ...fun and friendly. Our film would perhaps have been a bit more erotic if those damned Belgians had turned up for the orgy, but that's another story.
Have finally got round to signing up for The Friday Thing - an extremely funny and informative newsletter and can highly recommend it. With all this stuff to read, not sure how I'll fit any time in for work.
Posted by emilyd at August 27, 2002 06:55 PM