Ganari Takahashi, Japanese pornographer turned vegetable farmer, on his transferrable skills, adding: “You have to create an image and make it cool.” (via boutofcontext)
Creating a cool image is just marketing, and many of the same marketing principles apply regardless of the product you’re selling. But this quote is still kinda funny :-)
(NB. I had a conversation yesterday at Barcamp Manchester about how the porn industry has often pioneered technologies and online business models that took years to later be adopted by the mainstream. A friend also gave her final-year presentation at uni on the subject of “what the music business can learn from the adult entertainment industry”. So there’s a precedent of erm…learning about business from porn. Figuratively).
