Tag Archives: heckler and associates seattle

call of the wild

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: rainier beer poster (mid-70′s) parodying frazetta. part of a series of ‘artist parody’ posters art directed by doug fast for heckler and associates. …

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Doug Fast, frank frazetta, Heckler and Associates, heckler and associates seattle, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rainier Beer advertising, terry heckler | Leave a comment

by Art Chantry: back when i first started my teenage drinking, this is what beer looked like. it was for adults, refreshing looking, lotsa water, sold as a ‘relaxation on weekends’. it was also largely sold in “stubbies”. then came … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged art chantry, Beer bottle design and shape, beer bottles stubbies, brooks stevens, Brooks Stevens Miller Beer, Colt 45 mini cans, heckler and associates seattle, Heidelberg Beer Company, Lucky Beer tacoma, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, olympia beer, Olympia Brewery Tumwater Washington, Rainier Beer advertisements, terry heckler | Leave a comment

blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bob Dylan, Edward Bernays, frank the tank, greil marcus old weird america, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, howard stern, jennifer aniston, kid rock pabst blue ribbon, limp bizkit, metropoulous brothers, old milwaukee advertising, pabst blue ribbon marketing, Richard Brautigan, Robert Crumb, Sigmund Freud, The Band, will ferrell | Leave a comment

shock & the beautiful halo of the storyteller

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Dave

The modernist moment: destruction and creative simultaneously. A self-destructive moment while shining in the process. Can marketing create cultures out of thin air? Capturing flashes of light and bottling them, packaged as part of the cultural dialog. The Rainier beer … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Gershom Scholem, grunge movement, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, Marcel Duchamp, mickey rooney, rainier beer ad campaign, terry heckler, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

remembrance of things past

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) …in my last essay, i wrote about the wonders of lucky lager beer rebus puzzle bottle caps back in the early 1970′s. eventually i switched to olympia beer (oly tasted better to me) and that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged 'o. henry, art chantry, bandido motorcycle club tacoma, farrell's ice cream parlor, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, kenny baker, lucky lager beer, olympia beer, rebus puzzle campaign, tacoma murder rate, Ted Bundy, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

scuttlebutt! : under the cap

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back when i first started drinking – this was around 1970 or so – THE beer that we all drank was lucky lager. this was for several reasons: one, it tasted good. two, it was … Continue reading →