Christmas Wines of 2012
Well it seemed to Ralph and I that there was and is a lot of
political stuff happening recently in both in the United States and here in our
own country: federally, provincially and even locally. There are parties being
voted out and parties being voted in and in any case neither Ralph nor I were
invited to any of the parties and so we thought that we should just have one of
our own, or maybe two, and not invite any of these people. Would serve
them right.
So we had decided to do elections. The next thing was to
decide whether we were running against one another or working together to have
one of us elected. I kind of liked the idea that we were both running for the
same job in the mistaken belief that by doing so one of us would surely win the
office, whatever that was. And don’t call me Shirley.
And the nature of the office we were running for was
purposefully kept vague. Okay, it was kept stupid.
As per our custom at this time of year we made two
batches of wine, one red and the other white, which would be given away as
Christmas presents to both friends and those others who had not as yet been
warned. That became the basis for the campaigns, red against white,
may the better wine win.
I wanted to keep on top of the project and so I started
pulling things together, images from a number of sources and began work on the
storyline so that we would have something done for Christmas. With my work
schedule I didn’t have much time to do any practical photography.
We did a lot of correspondence through email; giving and
getting suggestions, okaying story ideas, shots and proofs and all that kind of
stuff.
Here are the labels.
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| Citizen Cloin |
This is me doing an Orson Welles takeoff. Ralph is sitting on stage to the right.
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| Whistle Stop White |
I think this was originally a Ronnie Reagan shot. I'm just to the right facing the crowd. Ralph told me that he always wanted someone willing to take a bullet for him.
Once the labels were put to bed I started to work on the brochure that would go along with the wine. Here are a couple of images taken from screen shots of the brochure.
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| Brochure front page |
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| Brochure inside fold |
Here it is laid out panel by panel to read better.
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| Brochure cover |
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| Middle front panel |
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| Front left panel |
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| Inside left panel |
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| Inside centre panel |
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| Inside right panel |
So I hope you get a kick out of our humble efforts. I'm just sorry we couldn't share a glass of wine, maybe even one of our own, and toast the season.
Editor’s note: No actual squirrels were harmed during the creation of the stories.
