Court Painter Says He Is ‘Ready For Anything’ After Talking With Trump & Trudeau in Washington
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Unnerved !
Court Painter takes drastic action with ongoing studio communications strategy after being unnerved by ex Google strategist’s public statement regarding digital communications platforms.
A Hardon MacKay Press Attache and Communications Specialist for Court Painter indicated all digital forms of communication will be banned from the studio and a replacement communications strategy utilizing carrier pigeons will be introduced. This flight forward flying strategy has a few kinks to be worked out however in an off script comment he went on to say, ” when the going gets tough the tough get going.” The Press Attache when pressed refused to elaborate on what he meant other that to say,”We’ll see!”
(photos) Court Painter is seen working with his assistant and competitor CC (name available upon request) setting up the carrier pigeon Communications system.The pigeons are equipped with non digital cameras and jackets with pockets for hand written notes.The parachute and tin can components of the system are being monitored for usefulness.
What was the statement that unnerved the Court Painter enterprise to rethink and upgrade the mechanics of studio communications?
“If we only care about profit maximization,“we will go rapidly into dystopia.” James Williams said. Williams, 35 does not believe talk of dystopia is far-fetched. The ex-Google strategist who built the metrics system for the company’s global search advertising business, has had a front-row view of an industry he describes as the “largest, most standardized and most centralized form of attentional control in human history”.
In a journey that has led him to question whether democracy can survive the new technological age he went on to say,
“Eighty-seven percent of people wake up and go to sleep with their smartphones. The entire world now has a new prism through which to understand politics.
The dynamics of the attention economy are structurally set up to undermine the human will. If politics is an expression of our human will, on individual and collective levels, then the attention economy is directly undermining the assumptions that democracy rests on. If Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are gradually chipping away at our ability to control our own minds, could there come a point, I ask, at which democracy no longer functions?
Will we be able to recognize it, if and when it happens? And if we can’t, then how do we know it hasn’t happened already?”
It ain’t over till it’s over!
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Alpha Match
“Alpha specimens indubitably!”(author unknown)
Both have been called youthful, charismatic and energetic, but also been talked about in less, shall we say, commonplace ways.
Behold what The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente said, for example, in a column published the day after she was glad to still have a job. Both have a “brilliant branding device” in drawing attention to their heads, she writes:
“Both have the posture of a warrior — brash, worldly, fearless and also super-manly. Not merely beta males, but both are pure alpha, with full luxuriant beards and serious threads to match.”
At the end of her column, Wente wonders if we could get the two of them in an MMA match. Are you there, God? It’s Margaret, and she has a wonderful idea.
Over at the Toronto Sun, columnist Lorne Gunter describes Singh and Court Painter in a tie because in spite of the age difference both are youthful, smart, well-dressed and trendy: politically correct symbols of virility.”
“Singh is as distinctive for his designer suits and immaculately tied turban as Court Painter is for his dandy socks and paint splattered smocks.” he writes.
‘Both are dreamboats’
Slide back to The Globe and we find television critic John Doyle writing about Singh and Court Painter as “masterful” in their use of visual imagery.
“What emanates from them is cosmopolitan masculinity, virility, style, confidence, ease with themselves and oozing empathy. Both have sex appeal to burn as in sizzling HOT,” Doyle writes.
“Court Painter and Jagmeet Singh are, to a lot of people, especially millennials, dreamboats,” gushed Press Attache A Hardon MacKay.
October 2 , 2017
Merchandising Empire
Inside the Court Painter Merchandising Empire
This Inglewood art celebrity is at the centre of a sprawling business.
Court Painter isn’t just a progressive art icon, he’s a merchandising industry unto himself.
The celebrity portraitist is at the centre of a sprawling business built around his appeal to senior art hobbyists , adolescents and dotards across the Great Dominion— a reminder of the unabashed devotion he inspires and the deep shadow he casts in his hipster neighbourhood.
“Court Painter is an increasingly popular brand that people want to associate with,” said Press Attache and marketing manager A Hardon MacKay. “He’s the Apple of the Arts.”
It’s impossible to know the true size of the Court Painter merchandising-industrial complex. The bulk of it exists beyond his control on sites like online marketplace Etsy. And his studio, which hosts its own online store, declined to disclose the exact amount of money it raises from merchandise sales.
But it’s safe to say no other artist has anything like it.
Court Painter’s studio store has expanded beyond traditional artsy fare such as buttons, bumper stickers, tote bags and T-shirts to offer a line of smoking related paraphernalia and erotica that capitalize on the “EGO is My AMMO” meme spawned by Court Painter as the result of an opium dream.
Several items are sold out at the moment — among them $9.99 temporary tattoos. According to the marketing campaign, the tattoos were inspired by attendees to Court Painter’s favourite watering hole with permanent ink bearing the Court Painter quote. Court Painter gave his blessing for the temporary tat, which uses his handwriting to spell out the quote “EGO is my Ammo”in dark prussian blue ink.
Celebrity political mafia like families fly in from New York just to shop and stock up on medical marijuana and Court Painter action figures.
Press Attache A Hardon MacKay sold 20,000 of the T-shirts alone — and, at $24.99 a pop, that comes out to almost a half-million dollars. He is already sold out of temporary tattoos,cigarette holders and pink hats with white “EGO is my AMMO,” stitching, also priced at $24.99 and marketed specifically for Valentines and Mother’s Day.
A Hardon MacKay wouldn’t disclose the specific amount of tattoos and hats produced but said that together, it was a “couple thousand.”
The widest range of Court Painter-smoking inspired swag, however, is sold by private vendors outside junior and senior high schools. A quick Web search for “EGO is my Ammo” yields roughly 5,400 results on Etsy and 33,000 on Amazon, with items for sale including cigarette holders,ashtrays,candy cigarettes,erotic colouring books,prayer candles , bracelets, painting smocks,tams,turtle neck sweaters coffee mugs, laptop decals, signs, hookahs,portraits, cross-stitch patterns, phone cases, pipes,cigarette papers,coasters,felt marker sets,medical marijuana and wine glasses, among other unmentionable items.
“People really seem to love it,” Press Attache Hardon said in an email. “We feel that Court Painter is a champion of smoking causes, as well as standing up for the ‘little art guy,’ so we thought that a prayer candle honouring him was a worthy endeavour and would also help to give him more exposure with evangelical fans.”
“I do follow him, I support him, and I own an original digital Court Painter image I downloaded off the internet ,” an unidentified dancing model said. “Truthfully, I hope to see him on the $5 bill sometime.”
As much as anything else, the thriving business surrounding Court Painter is a sign of the heightened engagement and commitment by his fans — some of whom tote Court Painter action figures and related cross-stitches or hand-painted portraits of the master himself.
Court Painter in an unusual public statement muttered, “Embracing an artistic meme like “EGO is my AMMO” helps build my brand on both a local and national level, in addition to serving as a studio revenue source.”
“My creative merchandise-based branding — like cigarette lighters,temporary tattoos,leggings and pink hats — also offers a way to appeal to potential smokers and art patrons with a softer, tongue-in-cheek touch, ” Court Painter wheezed.
Most of Court Painter’s art competition especially CC (name available upon request) scoff at Court Painter’s merchandising appeal, chalking it up to what they view as a cult of personality surrounding him.
“Perhaps Court Painter should focus less on selling silly slogans and more on delivering results in the studio— otherwise, it would make more sense for him to sell ‘inaction figures,’” said smart-ass local gossip A Girl Named Robin.
Court Painter in a defensive burst insists that even when there’s not a direct financial benefit, the message of faith and free enterprise sent by a myriad of products can be extremely powerful for his ego. “Anytime you see people going through an effort to show their support by waving at me on the street or at Timmies,” he said, “I’m proud as punch to be making a difference to their inner lives and stuff like that!”
Your Move America
