What it is.

1. This is a blog, not a website because I don't have the skills or the time to do a full-blown website. The niceties of design that I used to obsess over when I was an ad agency art director go out the window.

2. This is not a blog about the TV show "Mad Men". I really don't know or care much about the fictional exploits of fake "white" ad folks. This is a blog for and about real "black" ad folks.

3. My purpose here is to get acquainted with the current state of the mad world (especially as it relates to...er...uh, "melanated" mad men and women), make contact with and gather info on current AfAm ad folks for my new book and to begin to build an audience for it.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Finally.

It's taken me a lot longer than it should've to start this blog.

About 45 years longer.

Of course I've got a great excuse for the first 35 years. For about 25 of them, there was no such thing as a blog. For the last 10 years, I was busy painting, writing and doing my best to save America...from itself. And for many of those, there was no popular TV show called, "Mad Men" whose well known title I could riff on to grab the shattered attention of the distracted masses.

But now, thanks to all those factors coming into play...and my remarkable patience, here it is, Mad Invisible Men (& Women).

Please stay tuned.

8:34 am, Nov. 19, 2014

Like I was sayin', I probably could have started this blog years ago - right after Mad Men became a tv hit. But my mind was occupied with other things - like making a living in my new career as an artist/writer/recovering adman.

I hadn't even watched the show until a few months ago, when I came up with the idea of writing an eponymously titled book. But once I got interest from a major New York player in the coffee-table, graphic design book biz, I put together a proposal that's  now, as of last week, being shopped at publishers in Europe and here in the good ol' US of A.

As I wait, I figured I'd put together this blog. These days, it's so technically simple, it's a no brainier. Right?

2 comments:

  1. Lowell Thompson is one of the great thinkers of our time I am proud to know him and call him a friend

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    1. none of his ideas ever take off the ground.. Lowell was the adman for the edsel... we all know what happened with the edsel.

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