Boxing Day
Aug. 7th, 2005 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustOn the whole, I dislike advertising as only someone who has studied the stuff for a living can. But I have been enjoying the "Beer from the Coast" summer campaign from Adnams - enough so that I not only downloaded their screensaver, I also ordered a print and some postcards of the graphics.
With apologies both for the quality of the images (it was a very bright day) and for the mundane and trivial nature of this post - let me get it off my chest, and then I can move the box which is currently occupying most of my study (I exaggerate, but not much).
The postman delivered a box 40cm X 40 cm X 40cm. It contained a lifetime's supply of foam plastic worms, ditto bubble wrap (one length 6.5 metres, one length 5.25 metres), not counting the 3 metre length which was actually used to wrap the print, one mounted print and two packs of postcards: the contents of the box were buried at the bottom beneath all this packaging.
If this was intended to protect the contents of the box, it wasn't entirely successful: the top postcard of one pack has the kind of indentations you get from resting a piece of paper on something while scribbling with a ball-point that is reluctant to write.
Despite this overkill (and the realisation "oh, that's why they charge so much for postage!"), I continue to be charmed by these images, and will be looking out for more about the artist, Chris Wormell.
With apologies both for the quality of the images (it was a very bright day) and for the mundane and trivial nature of this post - let me get it off my chest, and then I can move the box which is currently occupying most of my study (I exaggerate, but not much).
The postman delivered a box 40cm X 40 cm X 40cm. It contained a lifetime's supply of foam plastic worms, ditto bubble wrap (one length 6.5 metres, one length 5.25 metres), not counting the 3 metre length which was actually used to wrap the print, one mounted print and two packs of postcards: the contents of the box were buried at the bottom beneath all this packaging.
If this was intended to protect the contents of the box, it wasn't entirely successful: the top postcard of one pack has the kind of indentations you get from resting a piece of paper on something while scribbling with a ball-point that is reluctant to write.
Despite this overkill (and the realisation "oh, that's why they charge so much for postage!"), I continue to be charmed by these images, and will be looking out for more about the artist, Chris Wormell.
