Comments on: Personal Branding Blanding Blog http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog Home of the musical Dream Journal. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:27:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: lr http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog/comment-page-1#comment-51331 lr Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:10:14 +0000 http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog#comment-51331 ir? lr. Yes. Walken having a distinct singular human "personality" and not a "brand". Only the media/ machine around "him" needs to label for the consumation of his job getting as an actor. the real question is, as the other poster began to hit on... are we only to consume- be "consumers" to "every facet-act" in our lives... ? if so, then let all things and ones "brand away!" and if so then we've gotten the "reality" we deserve. if not, then the gulf between who we may be and our personas in the current mediated world may be finally realized as too large to stomach any more by an increasing number of those engulfed by the modern media of the last 50-so years. its all kinda simple.... only when one can "see behind the curtain" does one loose the fantasy of OZ. and as the "consumer"-- is required to again " create their own realities" are they also made clearly aware of the actual "worth" of the realities they allowed themselves to be made a part of in their past. The only hope for VR worlds/ mass media and the silly realities fostered in them, is the final awareness and realization by those so called "consumers" in them, is that they CAN leave them. After 5 years of blogging and facebooking, and lindening , true adult humans may realize this. At least thats my hope.;) c3 ir? lr.

Yes. Walken having a distinct singular human "personality" and not a "brand". Only the media/ machine around "him" needs to label for the consumation of his job getting as an actor.

the real question is, as the other poster began to hit on…

are we only to consume- be "consumers" to "every facet-act" in our lives… ? if so, then let all things and ones "brand away!" and if so then we've gotten the "reality" we deserve.

if not, then the gulf between who we may be and our personas in the current mediated world may be finally realized as too large to stomach any more by an increasing number of those engulfed by the modern media of the last 50-so years.

its all kinda simple…. only when one can "see behind the curtain" does one loose the fantasy of OZ.

and as the "consumer"– is required to again " create their own realities" are they also made clearly aware of the actual "worth" of the realities they allowed themselves to be made a part of in their past.

The only hope for VR worlds/ mass media and the silly realities fostered in them, is the final awareness and realization by those so called "consumers" in them, is that they CAN leave them.

After 5 years of blogging and facebooking, and lindening , true adult humans may realize this. At least thats my hope.;)

c3

]]> By: Tweed Woodget http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog/comment-page-1#comment-51330 Tweed Woodget Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:45:41 +0000 http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog#comment-51330 It's a given that avant-garde personalities (like Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Johnny Depp, Kurt Colbain, etc)are emulated and admired because of their unswerving commitment to their principles as artists. The overwhelming majority of the rest of the "wannabes" merely copy their styles, mannerisms or philosophies while the originators have already moved on. Even the term "personal branding" bespeaks a certain personal cultural and sociological vacuum. We all have personal branding: it's called a personality, character. As you so aptly put it, in olden days the craftsmen made a living by word of mouth and reputation, (they had no choice), not by pretending someone elses work was their own. The complexity and relative anonimity of our society enables this plagiarism to occur. Corporate "branding" is a meaningless, soulless attempt to connect at some level with the consumer, but anyone with a glimmer of intelligence knows that it stops at the marketing level: in most companies, only a handful of businesses "live" their corporate philosophy. The pressure is on people to innovate, and the vast majority are not up to the effort (bell shaped curve), but the easy access to media enables the mediocre to delude themselves into thinking they can. It's a given that avant-garde personalities (like Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Johnny Depp, Kurt Colbain, etc)are emulated and admired because of their unswerving commitment to their principles as artists. The overwhelming majority of the rest of the "wannabes" merely copy their styles, mannerisms or philosophies while the originators have already moved on. Even the term "personal branding" bespeaks a certain personal cultural and sociological vacuum. We all have personal branding: it's called a personality, character.
As you so aptly put it, in olden days the craftsmen made a living by word of mouth and reputation, (they had no choice), not by pretending someone elses work was their own. The complexity and relative anonimity of our society enables this plagiarism to occur. Corporate "branding" is a meaningless, soulless attempt to connect at some level with the consumer, but anyone with a glimmer of intelligence knows that it stops at the marketing level: in most companies, only a handful of businesses "live" their corporate philosophy. The pressure is on people to innovate, and the vast majority are not up to the effort (bell shaped curve), but the easy access to media enables the mediocre to delude themselves into thinking they can.

]]> By: Torley http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog/comment-page-1#comment-51325 Torley Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:46:55 +0000 http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog#comment-51325 Thanx! @Ir: Are you referring to Christopher Walken? Thanx!

@Ir: Are you referring to Christopher Walken?

]]> By: Martin Buckland http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog/comment-page-1#comment-51321 Martin Buckland Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:44:18 +0000 http://torley.com/personal-blanding-blog#comment-51321 Perfect! Thanks. Perfect! Thanks.

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