Or could be subtitled: “Not everyone appreciates my sense of humour”!
Marketing is the only way to spread the word about a business and I used to make my own flyers and adverts. I figured a humorous approach would attract more attention but my flyer for my portrait services “Amber Visual Shoots People!” met with a very negative response from a few people. Okay, I could see their point.
I’d recently finished doing a cover for a book called “Blood on the rocks” and as the plot revolved around a murder at a Scottish distillery, I made an image that showed a hand dripping blood onto some ice cubes. The publishers loved it so I decided to use the image for a flyer for my advertising services. I mailed out a few and had two phone calls almost by return to the effect “That was disgusting, how dare you mail out such imagery!”
So I’m very careful these belligerently PC days. In fact it’s almost impossible not to offend anyone, especially as it seems there’s a whole bunch of people out there whose only reason for existence is to be offended!
