Betcha forgot about this contest, right?
I sure did.
But I had this photo laying around, and felt that Lucy-and-the-football tickle of suspicion. "I wonder..."
Besides, I promised that I would bring the contest back, now and then.
So where is this sedate living room? With 2015 about to run out, I thought I would hold one last contest for the year, dispatch one last poster. No 2016 posters in the works—it was a cool prize, and fun to mix a batch of wheat paste and slap them up around the West Loop. But not staggeringly effective as a marketing tool. I'll have to think of something else.
So post your guesses below. I imagine this'll get solved at 7:01 a.m. But you never know. There's a first time for everything. Have fun. Good luck.
My regular answer for this, one of the Thorne miniature rooms at the Art Institute.
ReplyDeleteExcept in this case you happen to be right. Congratulations Clark St Send me your address, at dailysteinberg@gmail.com, and I'll mail you your poster, unless you turn up your nose as such things.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not good marketing, but I was really looking forward to the 2016 poster.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies Al, though I'm glad someone was. A few factors: a) no good slogan presented itself, as in the past two years; b) scant interest -- I sold eight posters this year; c) I wasn't sure that Eli's was buying ads again this year until late, and that's the money I use for the posters d) I might create a poster for the book instead, which comes out in September, or I might do a poster for an August posting of my unpublished book about my trip out West with the boys. I could see that looking really cool. So hope isn't lost for a 2016 poster. There just didn't seem much of a point to push it.
DeleteI already have a poster, so save it for another week.
ReplyDeleteI also answered that as a joke, as I must have used it 5 or 6 times in the past & lost.
What did you do, go there & take a photo of one just because I kept using that answer?
That reminds me of my favorite quote from antiquity, from Bion: "Little boys throw stones at frogs in jest, though the frogs die, not in jest, but in earnest." No, I didn't have that in mind.
DeleteWhich reminds me, for some reason, about analyzing humor being like dissecting a frog. "Few people are interested and the frog dies."
DeleteTom Evans
I neglected to properly attribute it. It is from E.B. white. Too much egg nog.
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Yes,I thought it was one of the Thorne rooms. Did you know that the Phoenix Museum has some of them? And the Orangerie in Paris has a collection of miniature rooms,too.
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