I really liked this picture of actresses from Leslie's copy of Vanity Fair . Unfortunately this is not the new uniform for Disney ushers, it was promotion for a movie.
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No word on how many ankles were broken when they landed. Here's the same scene sans jumping actresses.
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Here's an NPR article about jumping fish.
It's quite right for corporations to contribute to the Philharmonic. This is a form of patronage. In exchange the corporations should be properly acknowledged. This is a form of advertising.
Acura, for example, offers a small rebate to certain concert goers. For some concerts you get free parking if you drive up to Disney Hall in one of their cars. That's a big $8 discount. (The cheapest recent Acura sold on Ebay was an '86 Integra with 163,000 miles. It went for $585.75, about the cost of parking for just 74 concerts.)
The last time I attended a Disney Hall concert Acura also sponsored the after-concert reception. They served Acura brownies. (click picture to enlarge it)
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While eating our brownies, we watched this static light projection on the wall of BP Hall. It makes me wonder where Batman is.
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Inside the concert hall itself the stage has been named.
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I guess their idea is that everyone at a concert will be reminded subliminally of this:
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It would be a much better world if you were reminded of classical music each time you saw the bank's stagecoach, rather than being reminded of a bank each time you saw the concert stage.
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But I doubt any orchestra has enough resources to patronize a bank. Just imagine the tagline: "This bank has been brought to you by ... "
You can buy a Fuck Frank Gehry t-shirt here.
Here a The New Yorker story about Frank Gehry's reaction to the shirts.
Patronizing Tags: Disney Hall. . . Acura. . . Wells Fargo. . . advertising. . . corporate philanthropy
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