Talk:Ellen Feiss/Archives/2016

Age at time of commercial

In her interview on Flux Radio, Ellen says "When I finished the switch campaign, I was 14". Our article, however, says that she was 15. Kaldari 16:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I have changed the age to 14, since I imagine that 15 was a guess based on her year of birth. Where did we get her year of birth, BTW? Kaldari 16:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Unless someone can come up with a reference for Feiss' year of birth, it should probably be removed per Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Kaldari 00:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Her birthday to be exact is December 2, 1987 I've originally seen her birth year as circa 1988. Someone had removed the "circa" and changed it to 1987, like, a long time ago. —pink moon1287 12:22, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Here, in a comment dated "July 1st 2006", it quotes an article saying she is 19, so she couldn't have been born any later than '87. This is also in accordance with the recent addition to her wikipedia article saying that she's a second year student. Davemcarlson 18:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

You would need to know when the article itself was posted, not the comment (which would be misleading).--Proud User (talk) 20:40, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Feiss said in her Flux interview that she spent the whole of the 2005-2006 academic year in France. Bed and Breakfast was filmed in September 2005 so she had to delay college for a year, but the director arranged for her to do an internship at the Magnum photo agency in Paris, making it worthwhile for her to take a year off. The interview comes from the July 27th 2006 episode of the Flux's podcast, and the interviewer states that she was in France at the time. Therefore, if she's at college now she's a freshman.--GagHalfrunt 00:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

On here website she says she is graduating college this year. Unless she went to college at 14 this would be a hard thing to do being born in 1988, she is at A&M also on her website. So the year she was born should be deleted in my opinion

I wasn't aware she had a website. Could you give a link to it? The sourcing in the article so far indicates she was fourteen when the commercial aired. Hm, maybe you are talking about the owner/maintainer of ellenfeiss.net, who is graduating from Texas A&M. --C S (Talk) 05:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

If she was 14 at the time of the commercial and the commercial began on June 10, 2002, that would automatically mean that she was born no earlier than on June 10, 1988 and no later than June 10, 1989. So I changed it to say she was born between 1988 and 1989. I will do more research to come up with a better estimate.--Proud User (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, the ad itself originally aired Septemper 5, 2002 (according to here), and above I did the math wrong, so she was born between September 5, 1987 and September 5, 1988. Corrections made on article.--Proud User (talk) 20:54, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Apperently on Apple's website you could watch the ad as early as August 2, 2002, so she was defenetly born no later than July 1988. We just have to know when those ads were recorded.--Proud User (talk) 20:59, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

She was born in 1986, not 1987 Source: http://www.westdenhaag.nl/artists/E_C_Feiss/1/ "E. C. Feiss (U.S.A, 1986) is a writer. Her work has appeared in Afterall, Open!, Texte zur Kunst, and Radical Philosophy, amongst others. In 2014–15, she was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and an instructor at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam." --Mando Salama (talk) 18:37, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Brandi was born on May 26, 1987. I'm 1986 in Brandi's month and day. 19 in 2005. --violetnese 16:26, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

That was recorded two years ago in 2000, we can do 1985, and in fact we can go two years even more than that on August 15, 1998 in 1983–1984! Ask Trent Olsen, Johanna Basford, and Lorna (rapper)! People are old, okay. --violetnese 17:19, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm Reese Witherspoon and when I say Lindsay Lohan I mean three years older. And Marilyn Monroe is a female video celeb. --violetnese 17:29, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Update.. career

http://aboutsalama.blogspot.com/2015/12/ellen-feiss.html --Mando Salama (talk) 09:36, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm Violetnese Acronym, she's an Arab from Houston. --violetnese 17:23, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Click on violet if you think Ellen is mine!

I think she's Johanna Basford, who doesn't tell people their birthday either. --violetnese 12:45, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Classic BLP1E

Last night I just happened to remember this old meme and I felt like watching the commercial so I searched for it and did. Still sweet and amusing. And then I saw this entry and realized that it likely doesn't match up to our current standards on BLP1E. Although I don't think the article merits deletion, per se, we should recognize that it isn't actually a biography. The article is actually almost entirely about the event and the very very scant biographical information we have on this young woman isn't at all remarkable: "As of January 2007, she was in college, and planning to major in either photography and video or women's studies."

As a meme or momentary Internet phenomenon, this is very likely notable. My search last night shows why, from a reader perspective. I remembered this, wondered whatever happened to her, and ended up at Wikipedia. But probably the article should be moved to a different title and adjusted slightly to make it clearer that it is not a biography.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 08:25, 2 July 2016 (UTC)