I came across this picture while surfing online, and it's a picture of the television series character Donald Draper from "Mad Men". I'm a fan of the show (Mad Men and the TV show Entourage are the only TV show's I'll watch) because their relative to the field I work in where we take unambiguous marketing problems and solve them. Lately I've come across some inspirational client briefs that are fantastic; and once their developed I feel that these ideas will make enormous waves of change.
The only 3 things that are on my mind in 2010:
‘Increase brand awareness’
‘Launch my product into the market’
‘Make people love and engage with my brand’
Anyone who can do those three things will be successful. In a lot of ways today's professional marketing departments have changed the relationships that agencies have had with client organizations and the roles that they play for them. I'm feeling very good about the projects that I have heaped upon my desk for this coming new year, because I am getting more intrinsically involved, more emotionally attached, and I'm putting the feeling that you see in that dominant pose above into everything that I do.
2 comments:
The picture depicts an image that you identify with, but do you identify with the character himself? Are you as masked, guarded and covert as he is too? Are you as manipulating, as two-timing, as unfaithful as he is? He is living the life of two completely different people, molded into one, under a false pretense, which will reveal itself soon enough. What's done in darkness ALWAYS comes to light, but will the truth set you (and him) free?
I picked the picture solely for it's air of dominance; a feeling derived from confidence and self-assurance, a feeling I can relate to. As for the character himself on the TV show, well that person is a tormented and highly secretive person. As you had stated; eventually his secrets will come out, and perhaps as it was back in those days and as it is in the real world his talent and position in life may end up being what overshadows his shame. History is replete with instances like these even up until this modern time, ie, Kobe Byrant etc etc (no one even sees him in that shameful light anymore).
Unfortunate indeed...
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