The name Thorny Bleeder came from my partners who created the idea just one week before I joined them.
They took both of their names and threw the letters into an online random word scrambler. It spit out a super long list, and there in the middle was a weird little phrase that just seemed to stand out: Thorny Bleeder.
Image by Incase.
Bob Lefsetz must have had a week or two off, since he’s come back with two great posts on a similar theme - how it takes time and effort to become good enough to be successful in music (or in anything if truth be told). We peddle this line on the main blog - read the…
Well then maybe that’ll be impetus to step up the excitement factor then eh? ;)
A band is relevant as long as people still enjoy listening to their stuff.
But in terms of mass appeal and commercial success, relevancy is limited to the flavour of the day, and once that passess…. so does their commercial appeal.
A flash-in-the-pan success is always a short lived career, whereas a lot of the bands who are labelled as “irrelevant” continue to do decent business.
I would say that the poetry isn’t in the advertising itself, but rather in the creativity of the entire marketing plan (of which advertising is just a small piece of the puzzle).
Marketing can most definitely be exciting and creative, adding to the user experience of the art.
But in advertising, its execution can either be a creative success that enhances the “poetry” and transcends the product, or it can cheapen it and water it down so that it takes the soul away from the “poetry”… leaving nothing but an empty shell.
There’s a fine line in advertising, it’s a risk that can go either way.
Rejection? What’s that? I just follow my passions and my heart and let them lead me wherever they may take me.
You can only find success through failure. Thomas Edison failed ten thousand times before he figured out the light bulb.
All the time. Think twice, tweet once.
Nope, I just don’t sleep! But if and when I do, it’s only for a few hours at a time, with my laptop & iPhone beside me, just in case I need to make some notes or do some spontaneous research…
You bet. All Thorny, all the time. Although I also do freelance web design, under the name Drop D Design:
http://www.dropddesign.com
