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chipotleWhile digging through another box in the living room that mostly revealed still more comics (including a couple rare ones of perhaps dubious value, such as "Equine the Uncivilized" #1 and the first and only issue of Phil Foglio's "D'Arc Tangent"), I found a hard copy of the print advertisement for the Ishtar AFS.
The what, you may ask? In my now once again languishing novel In Our Image, part of the projected future--the part that's most integral to the story--includes "GMMs," genetically modified mammals, with a bit greater intelligence, dexterity, or other theoretically desirable features. The AFS series was a military project to create soldiers, later branched off into civilian versions of the extremely human-like cats.
When the earlier version of the story ran in YARF! this ad ran in a few issues before the story started, uncredited. I'm told they got a few queries about it.
Since I don't have the PageMaker original anymore (at least in a readable disk format), I scanned the ad and saved it as a relatively web-compatible graphics format. You'll have to excuse the moiré pattern in the grayscale, though.
Ishtar AFS ad
The what, you may ask? In my now once again languishing novel In Our Image, part of the projected future--the part that's most integral to the story--includes "GMMs," genetically modified mammals, with a bit greater intelligence, dexterity, or other theoretically desirable features. The AFS series was a military project to create soldiers, later branched off into civilian versions of the extremely human-like cats.
When the earlier version of the story ran in YARF! this ad ran in a few issues before the story started, uncredited. I'm told they got a few queries about it.
Since I don't have the PageMaker original anymore (at least in a readable disk format), I scanned the ad and saved it as a relatively web-compatible graphics format. You'll have to excuse the moiré pattern in the grayscale, though.
Ishtar AFS ad
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Date: 2002-08-15 14:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-16 06:27 (UTC)And it's still very well done.
I think you could have an excellent future in advertising, but I think (knowing your personality) you'd have to believe that the product is worth promoting to do it -- which is not a bad thing, it just means you'd have to be selective about who you work for. (I'm sure you probably could do very good ads for products you don't believe in, but I think you'd hate it very very quickly, as would I, and get burned out by it, as would I...)
Hmmm. If you could live on a smaller budget, and do some kind of job which allows you to do freelance work when you choose, that might be a very good thing... I could see you doing ads for Apple very very easily...
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Date: 2002-08-19 08:17 (UTC)I hope you've rescued all the old stuff you've found on the Tandy 2000 too. I do very vaguel recall that computer.