Wow. It’s been a real long time since cat ate paint. I always wonder what paint taste like. I also wonder if he actually put hot sauce in the paint. hmmm.
Well I’ve drunk paint water more than a few times by accident- there’re worse tastes to be honest.
As for not self promoting there’s a lot to be made from not self promoting; if you don’t then you are exclusive, a secret of sorts and that makes you more desirable to the ‘hip’ -who needs obsolescence if you can be scarce used through secrecy!
But even then, they have to promote themselves just enough to get word-of-mouth, but not enough to be considered “selling out”. It is a difficult balance.
Pheobsky: That’s a marketing technique, not an abstention. I refer to exclusivity rather than drinking paint.
Erika: Perhaps not on a philosophical level, but if you try to think philosophically the man from the IRS will come to your house and take your CDs away.
Rory: Yeah, this is the consumerism that needs to happen. Cat and Girl-brand paint in twenty shades of grey.
I love how Cat puts the bucket under his arm like a briefcase or brochures for something he’s promoting (and that Dorothy thought to add the detail of paint pouring out of it)
I once ran into a stoner friend I hadn’t seen in ages. She told me she was getting into Hermitism: an life-style choice based on… well. You get the idea.
She described it as a subversive anti-consumerist kind of thing. It sounded very zeitgeisty. I wondered why I’d never heard of it before, then realised that by its very nature they aren’t going to advertise so much.
May 21, 2009
(because I locked them in my basement to conceal my own shame)
May 21, 2009
Wow. It’s been a real long time since cat ate paint. I always wonder what paint taste like. I also wonder if he actually put hot sauce in the paint. hmmm.
May 21, 2009
This is a funny one. :)
May 21, 2009
I would call this one “Your Personal Brand.”
May 21, 2009
Well I’ve drunk paint water more than a few times by accident- there’re worse tastes to be honest.
As for not self promoting there’s a lot to be made from not self promoting; if you don’t then you are exclusive, a secret of sorts and that makes you more desirable to the ‘hip’ -who needs obsolescence if you can be scarce used through secrecy!
May 21, 2009
But even then, they have to promote themselves just enough to get word-of-mouth, but not enough to be considered “selling out”. It is a difficult balance.
May 22, 2009
I want to know more about Cat’s family.
May 23, 2009
I’m guessing felines.
May 24, 2009
If you sell stuff on eBay, do you have a bidness?
May 28, 2009
Does anyone else notice the can’s picture? :P ftw.
June 7, 2009
Pheobsky: That’s a marketing technique, not an abstention. I refer to exclusivity rather than drinking paint.
Erika: Perhaps not on a philosophical level, but if you try to think philosophically the man from the IRS will come to your house and take your CDs away.
Rory: Yeah, this is the consumerism that needs to happen. Cat and Girl-brand paint in twenty shades of grey.
September 23, 2009
I imagine the paint is simply a pigment of his imagination.
November 16, 2009
I love how Cat puts the bucket under his arm like a briefcase or brochures for something he’s promoting (and that Dorothy thought to add the detail of paint pouring out of it)
January 7, 2010
I once ran into a stoner friend I hadn’t seen in ages. She told me she was getting into Hermitism: an life-style choice based on… well. You get the idea.
She described it as a subversive anti-consumerist kind of thing. It sounded very zeitgeisty. I wondered why I’d never heard of it before, then realised that by its very nature they aren’t going to advertise so much.
July 7, 2010
Every time Cat eats paint it makes me want to eat some more and more.
Y’know, just to try it…