Digital BW, The Print

Oh...hmm...cool.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sanfo2003 [mailto:SandyCornelius@c...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:59 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Offensive ad
> >
> >
> > I will be off this forum until Yahoo removes the AllPosters.com pop-
> > up ad flashing in my face all the time graphically depicting a
> > homosexual act. I find it offensive and depressing, and should not be
> > forced to have it in front of me. Goodbye.
> >
> Sanfo,
> 
> Ah! I see the pop up. Very small one on the homepage and other pages to the
> left under the group name banner. It is rapidly cycling through "Click
> here", a basketball player, a shot from the Matrix and two women kissing
> (all though I could not identify the gender of the participants it switches
> so fast on my computer.)
> 
> If you follow the link, it is company that sells posters including art
> posters of photographs. So since this is a group dedicated to photography it
> makes sense that they would buy advertising space here. The piece in
> question is a photograph entitled "Kiss" by Tanya Chalkin and is being
> offered of sale next to posters of "Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23,
> 1945" by Joe Rosenthal. Also they are selling a bunch of Ansel Adams shots,
> flowers, puppies in tea cups, etc.
> 
> I did not go through their entire offering as I have better things to do,
> but personally I encountered nothing offensive. It all looks pretty tame
> compared to some of the art I have seen but I guess offense like beauty is
> in the eye of the beholder.
> 
> Martin Wesley