Monday, July 12, 2010

the ubiquituity of douglas coupland (TM)

that is a new word I've made up, notice the trademark. I asked myself, WWDC do? and the answer was, make it really postmodern and a comment on how corporations commercialize everything. 

when you have people staying with you, you become the kind of Vancouverite who sees everything from their perspective; you grow outsider eyes and you begin to notice... Douglas Coupland EVERYWHERE.

In the Globe and Mail for example, the full-page ad for DC's new collaboration with Roots, made me almost spit my Phil & Sebastian coffee all over the table, (which would have been such a waste of such glorious beans, trafficked by Mom and Elbow through mountainous twists and turns.) ANYWAY. Why is he everywhere? The WHOLE "CanLit" table at Chapters on South Granville. Neither a Camilla Gibb nor a Pasha Malla to be seen. At the VAG, he gets a wall-quote. Outside the Vancouver Convention Center, he gets a lego-sculpture.

Is this artistry or a business model?











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