{"id":65,"date":"2019-09-16T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T03:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T03:34:21","slug":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young&#8230; Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/headshot-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My love of advertising started at age seven when I produced a 30-second TV commercial for my pink and purple Huffy bicycle (&#8220;Pinky, the Bicycle for All Your Needs.&#8221; Hey, I was seven). It continued through an elementary school assignment in which we were meant to write short essays about ourselves; I crafted an ingenious print ad (and was yelled at, because we were supposed to be writing essays). In my high school French class, it was a commercial, all in French, for the Guillotronique \u2014 a handy, portable, suitcase-sized guillotine that was a companion piece to the Noose-o-Matique. In college, I discovered, to my joy, that advertising was an actual field of academic study, and when I started to learn about the message strategy and creative skills behind the stuff I liked already, I was well and truly hooked. And it ruined me for watching TV, too. My friends can&#8217;t sit with me through commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward an indeterminate number of years, and I have under my belt brochures, TV commercials, print ads, billboards, postcards, booklets, videos, posters, websites, holiday cards, comic strips, shorts, radio ads, feature articles, magazines, multimedia slideshows, and a couple of t-shirts. I write a lot, and I feel comfortable in saying that I&#8217;m good at it. I&#8217;ve developed a talent for finding the beauty in technology and the interesting in some dismally boring subjects \u2014 and the marketing appeal in businesses, products, individuals, and concepts that don&#8217;t, on the surface, necessarily look all that appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, I have some things to say about some things. And now you get to hear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Give me a shout.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Want to talk? Shoot me an email at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:cg@capertongillett.com\" target=\"_blank\">cg@capertongillett.com<\/a>, call me at 205.924.3266, or track me down on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapeGCreative\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Twittericon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-923\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapeGCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> @CapeGCreative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capertongcreative\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/FBicon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capertongcreative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CapertonGCreative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/acgillett\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/LinkedInicon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-925\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/acgillett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acgillett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love of advertising started at age seven when I produced a 30-second TV commercial for my pink and purple Huffy bicycle (&#8220;Pinky, the Bicycle for All Your Needs.&#8221; Hey, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young... 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