I'm a Bit Closer to Believing

[thehefner]

After my week of struggle and angst culminating in the latest LJ entry, leave it to chickenhat to make my day:



I'm utterly moved. As Bloo remarked, "I want buttons."

And speaking of Bloo...

In addition to my new poster/postcard design, Bloo and I started batting around a couple other ideas. She was wondering if there was some way I could play with that "in the shadow of Hugh Hefner" motif, maybe having the shadow of a bunny (HARVEY-style?) behind me or something. I turned down that idea, then jokingly remarked that I might hand out black postcards, just pitch black, and say "That's a photo of me in the shadow of Hugh Hefner."

Then we came up with doing a separate series of teaser postcards. No image, no info on the front, just black matte postcards with the sentence, "Meet the Black Sheep of the White Bunny Family." The text would be white, but the word "black" would be in a darker shade of black than the rest of the card, and glossy too. That just might stand out and pique curiosity amid all the other postcards.

Two sets of postcards. Yeah, this just might work after all.

Now I'm just going to need to step up the marketing of HOW HEFNERIAN when I do it in Orlando. Maybe do an illustrated guide of what is and what isn't Hefnerian, ala those "Do/Don't" pictorials. Do it in three columns of images: "Comedy," "Tragedy," and "Hefnerian."

Heh. Once I get back to work after my break, let's bump this shit up a notch. Bam!

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Hm. Wait! How about my can-I-borrow-a-feeling shot?



Yeah, the Clockwork Orange thing is starting to become the next burden, but eh, I can weather that. At least it's evoking something rather than nothing. I actually may start dressing in my royal blue bowler to set myself apart...

[pokeyburro.livejournal.com]

Use the bowler or the rose, either. The rose would give better color. But the other point I was trying to make was: if you're gonna say "I Believe in John Hefner", you may as well go whole hog in thy mimicry:

http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Knight-Movie-Poster-Style/dp/B001EB4G54

[pokeyburro.livejournal.com]

Also: I'm being a dumbass. You want to play "shadow of Hugh"? Replace that rose with a copy of Playboy. (Preferably one with just the Bunny icon, like the 40th Anniversary issue; a woman would distract.) You could even growl menacingly behind it.