Haven’t been at the studio for…days. So it was time to go back and do some work. When my mum is on the telly she sometimes asks: “What are you doing all day?” Well mum, I am doing stuff like that:
No, honestly we were finishing a commercial with some nice people. Christian (the man on the mic), who is working for Bakery Films as a production assistant and Svenno (the man on the desk) from Tonhaus. Nice people, nice day. Though it was long. Client was there, too.
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So, some nice things were happening over the past weeks. And one bad. Let’s start with the nice ones to celebrate the bad one at the end. Well, for weeks we weren’t allowed to talk about it, when we were, we simply forgot. Because something even more exciting happened, something so exciting that we forgot to tell, as well. The forbidden topic was that Nina and me won a so called bronze world medal at the New York Festivals what is really nice. But what’s even nicer and slightly outperformed this award formerly known as “the thing I am not allowed to talk about” was a bronze lion we were awarded at the Cannes Advertising Festival. Nice, isn’t it? For one night, though we were not able to go to Cannes, we were the happiest people in our office. Until next morning and the fact that clients care about ROI and give a shit about Cannes. Okay, most clients of us. Most clients of us except the brilliant people at Google for who we have done the work that won both bronze thingies. And here is the short documentation of the work.
The words in the Google Video search, just in case you can’t read them, are: a crowd of tourists, people waiting, changing traffic lights, busy airfield, people eating fast food, people getting into cabs, people going up and down and people crossing the street. Okay. Happiness. Now the sad part of this post. Last friday was the really, really last day of my little Nina as an employee of our agency. From July she will live in London, looking for whatever full-time or freelance job can pay her rent and food. Erm, I mean, whatever graphic-design-ish, art-direction-ish or idea-have-ish job that can help her pay that stuff. You can get in contact with her and see some stuff she has done by clicking on this picture puzzle:
If you don’t like picture puzzles you can click here: toosmalltobebig.com.
As always, a farewell will mean words of warmness and a lot of people standing together in the hallway, drinking free alcohol before 6 pm, chatting loud over even louder music and pretending they are not near crying like a baby. Well the last one regards mainly me.
So from now on I will be sitting in our office starring at the empty place that used to be Nina’s desk dreaming of the good ol’ times. Times when we were looking stupid on pictures while posing with our NoHoHon or a small furry thing called Filou.
Goodbye little Nina. You may be too small to be big, but you’re not too small to be great. So if you are working at a design, arty farty or advertising agency, that is nice and like people who are nice, for god’s sake get Nina into your rooms and hire her. Or, even better, the both of us. Be kind and drop her an email here:
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So what did you do last weekend? Watched football? Went shopping? Re-sorted your record collection by year and in alphabetical order? Hosted a big summer starting barbeque? Worked in the garden? Washed your car? Well, last weekend I was art. Only for one minute, but I was. Because my old creative whatever-head, his lovely wife and the little output of their love, called Lenny, went to the Erwin Wurm Exhibition at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. In the middle of the hall Mr. Wurm put some stuff to get involved with while being photographed. It’s a thing called “One minute sculptures”. Here you can see one of the objects:
We joined and had some fun. And furthermore had our three minutes of being art objects:
If you are near or think about going to Hamburg, go and see the exhibition. It’s really great. My favourite Erwin Wurm piece of work is this one. I think it’s called something like “The man who ate the world and the man who ate the world when it still was a disc”. Great. In the background of the picture you can see another instalation, the fat house.
Though I think the most widely known piece of work he did is a music video for the Red Hot Chili Peppers which basically is a video of the band doing some “One minute scultptures” with really ordinary objects.
Again, visit the exhibition. And if you don’t have the chance to come to Hamburg at least visit the website of Erwin Wurm where you can see some pieces of his work. Some beautiful pieces like the ones below. Thanks for your interest.
Legal Disclaimer: No, Lenny did not drink from the toilet cleaner bottle.
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Please excuse the deathly silence on this blog for so long. There was no definitely news and a lot of work to do. But after Neil’s post on the blog of Wieden+Kennedy some days passed by and then an appointment at Wieden+Kennedy in London was made. HOORAY! For the end of July. Enough time to polish the portfolio and stuff. Hope they are nice. YAY! Anyway I will definitely keep everyone updated on this blog, who’s interested. And if you would like to meet me in London for a pint, coffee, chat or to show the picture of your last holiday, just give me a shout. I will be there for some days and would be happy to meet some nice people. So Seb is comeing to London. Sorry for the visual pun by the way.
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Unfortunately I did not have the time to do Rob’s brilliant task properly. But because I was one of the loudest screaming “YEAH!” or “HOORAY!” or “YOU’RE A FUCKING GENIUS, ROB!” deep inside of me grew the bloody plant of bad conscience. That’s why I sat down yesterday night after work for four hours and put together my solution. It could briefly be described with the following picture:
Unfortunately it’s done very rough and is more of an advertising solution than a core strategic idea. But I think it’s worth a look. Though I’ve done it only for Rob, because I did not want to let him down with his first APSotW-thing, nonetheless the bloody bastard apparently wants to send it to his judging partners. That’s why I changed my mind and wrote this post. To let everybody on the whole world wide web know about it and maybe support me, ha. So if you maybe are interested in the stuff I wrote, you can find it on this blog:
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Last sunday was my birthday. I turned one year older and though twentysix is the most boring age in the world it was a really nice and laid back come together, sit together on sofas, drink and smoke together on sofas and celebrate this day on sofas. Open air. Outside a cozy bar. Brilliant. Thanks to the lovely people who were there.
While thinking about getting older, an idea came to my mind that I set myself new things I want to try or do during this new year. Three of them I will post today. Before, I want to show you a brilliant new commercial for Nike by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. For me this is my commercial of the week. A sports company advertising with the fact that running sucks. It’s so true. And so brilliant.
It briefly described what I thought about running. It’s boring. You run, run and run. And where does it take you? Where you started. How stupid is that? That’s the reason I prefered football and basketball. But I really like this whole Nike+ training thing. Apart from that it’s brilliant marketing, I think it’s great to actually see results from your daily training.
Because I stopped doing sports regularly when I started my job, I am far, far from a body and health condition you could describe as fit. And that’s why I want to start running this year. Got a Nike+ set (thanks, love you, darling) and will hopefully from now on do some workouts every week. Besides I hope that it will cure me from smoking, as well. Here you can see my first stats from today. Will maybe post more about my first run with Nike+ later. It’s not much, but a start, isn’t it?
All the money that running and stop smoking can save me, will all be spend for a long holiday. You know, since I started working here four years ago, I haven’t been on holidays. Sure, three days here, four days there…but that’s not a real holiday. And that’s why I promised me to at least visit three countries I have never been to before during year twentysix. The first one will probably be Norway this August with two lovely people and my best little friend Lenny, who is 10 month old now. But the really exciting thing is the plan or idea for next year. Four weeks in Australia with a stop in maybe Singapore or Thailand. Depends on what’s possible. And I hope we somehow can make this happen. Australia…this would be brilliant.
Okay. The third thing will be a bit strange because of my age. But I definitely want to learn a new trick on the skateboard. Easy. Unfortunately it inevitably implies to learn how to skate. And I have never done this before…no…this is a lie. I did stand on a skateboard when I was 6 and prompt fell on my butt. But everytime I see those guys skating around in videos, on the street or when I sit in front of my PS2 playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (yeah, I have them all), one thing springs to my mind: I want to try that. I want to skate. And you know what? This year I will buy a board and start. Though I am not exactly sure if I will begin to skate or repeatingly will fall on my butt. Unfortunately my helpful girlfriend already proclaimed that she won’t vet any injury being caused by skateboarding. Thanks, lovely.
So how does all this sound so far? Maybe I will post some other tasks later. But for now: Thanks for your attention.
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Quite busy finishing a TV thingy for our cookie client. But while looking for the perfect song for it I came across one of my most favourite songs when I was 17 or so. It’s “Carrot Rope” of the fabulous Pavement. Nice. Reminds me of sitting in the sun with some friends drinking beer and just watching the water floating down our local river. A time when I did not thought about unique selling propositions and target groups most of my day. The whole band in yellow raincoats. How brilliant is that?
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