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When creative people get bored
Jan. 13th, 2005 10:45 pmAs some of you know, I'm the supervisor in the layout department of a nameless* newspaper.
*But not really hard to figure out, if you know where I live.
The advertising industry takes a nosedive in January, with half the people in town having spent all their advertising dollars on pre-Christmas sales, and the other half taking their annual "Let's get out of town while it's -40" vacations. In every single year I've worked in the newspaper industry, going on 7 years this winter, it's always the same ... after an insanely busy November and December, the layout/advertising department spends the month of January sitting around coming up with things to do.
We have these three-sided boxes that prop up our computer monitors (basically a box turned on its side ... the 4th side is open so you can put things in it). One of my employees brought in acrylic paints to paint hers, and kindly brought enough for the entire department.
( Here is mine. Polar sea serpents and ice weasels! )
*But not really hard to figure out, if you know where I live.
The advertising industry takes a nosedive in January, with half the people in town having spent all their advertising dollars on pre-Christmas sales, and the other half taking their annual "Let's get out of town while it's -40" vacations. In every single year I've worked in the newspaper industry, going on 7 years this winter, it's always the same ... after an insanely busy November and December, the layout/advertising department spends the month of January sitting around coming up with things to do.
We have these three-sided boxes that prop up our computer monitors (basically a box turned on its side ... the 4th side is open so you can put things in it). One of my employees brought in acrylic paints to paint hers, and kindly brought enough for the entire department.
( Here is mine. Polar sea serpents and ice weasels! )