Re: Dog Star Man and L. L. Bean & LEVI'S

From: Jeff Kreines (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Dec 19 2009 - 23:03:52 PST

On Dec 20, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Melissa Parson wrote:

> yes the audio is from a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Whitman's voice reading four lines from the poem "America." to sell Levis!

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/America.mp3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdW1CjbCNxw&NR=1

Here's one of the images that they appropriated:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&VBID=2K1HZSFRGDNU&IT=ZoomImage01_VForm&IID=2S5RYDW3PITC&ALID=2K7O3R14GY52&PN=2&CT=Search

Then there's another ad using a different poem -- Pioneers! O Pioneers!

http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1969.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXpJSvW5mA

This is very different than the arty B&W one -- this one includes a Nazi salute (that's how I read it) and a lot of young model types -- can people actually afford real Levis these days? They aren't like the old ones...

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