Heavy Fine

McUSA

It was delicious!

bathrooms can be really confusing.

And that's why people need a little instruction.

potty signs

raqibgetsavisa.blogspot.com

The past couple of posts are from the blog I'm trying to keep updated while I'm in India taking care of visa stuff. Though you guys would like to see some random shots!

Let me know if you guys want anything from the motherland! (Brandon's already put in his request for a camel... I think he's a little confused about India vs. Saudi Arabia).

Ali & Friends

I don't know where the phrase "street urchin" came from... but I met Ali while we were waiting at the butcher. He wanted to see how the camera worked so I took a couple of pictures of him and then next thing I knew he had me taking a bunch of shots of him and his friends.

While leaving the he turns to me and in the most business-like tone says "Get these pictures to me by tomorrow, ok?". I doubt I'll be able to find Ali but maybe he'll stumble across these pictures online.

Random Pics 2

Random Pics

a nice break

Most of these pictures don't seem like they could be real. And each one has an amazing ability to make your mind wander and ultimately make up stories of their past.
I recommend looking at all of the different themes. They're eerily beautiful and fascinating.
Click right here

Designer Manifesto

Icon Magazine has published the manifesto's of 50 famous (I imagine, although have no idea) designers. The image is by Yves Behar.
Link: http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/050/manifestos/index.html

Some of my favorite pieces:
he essence of British landscape architecture was to reshape nature according to fashion and taste; the cult of the cultivar, the art of the artefact... ! Landscape was the domain of dandies, hermits and poets. The 20th century produced landscapes of little or no interest. The specific became general, the norm became the rule, landscape turned into environment. A delicate green tissue turned into a monstrous green blanket...

Landscape architecture should once again become a source of aesthetic experimentation.


AND

Design makes things seem special, and who wants normal if they can have special? And that’s the problem.

What has grown naturally and unselfconsciously over the years cannot easily be replaced. Not that old things shouldn’t be replaced or that new things are bad, just that things that are designed to attract attention are usually unsatisfactory. There are better ways to design than putting a big effort into making something look special. Special is generally less useful than normal, and less rewarding in the long term. Special things demand attention for the wrong reasons, interrupting potentially good atmosphere with an awkward presence. Preserve Normal, resist Special!

AND

Everybody who is honest is interesting

AND

We believe that “content” is something you do – not something you are given by a person in a black T-shirt.

"Ghostbuster lunch box dick treasure chest"

todays lesson, brought to you by BEES!

This is really quite useless, but of course I think it's competely fascinating. (oh how I love useless factoids.)
Some scientist out there decided to render images of flowers to represent how insects actually see them via UV light.

All Day Buffet

I've been keeping this as a secret for the past couple of weeks but the All Day Buffet site is finally launched! Basic premise is to get FULL ON GOOD...

"alldaybuffet has nothing to do with food, yet it has everything to do with promoting and drawing upon our generation's hunger to do good. alldaybuffet connects young adults and social entrepreneurs by creating unique platforms to raise awareness, generate discussion, and inspire action. doing good shouldn't feel like a chore so we connect the things we like to do most with the things that matter most."

It's a mash-up of Good Magazine meets Flavorpill meets LVHRD. Check it out at All Day Buffet and sign-up for our email lists!

New Orleans Revisted

Here's what we've been up to down here in New Orleans!

http://www.adweek.com/aw/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003621439

NY is full or super heroes

Maybe not heroes, but definitely super.
Yesterday, I was forwarded this site. And while many of you may not actually live in NY, you should still be able to enjoy the mainstream appreciation of the weirdness that exists here.

Check out this site.the most powerful man in the universe

And by the way. My very own DM spotted He-Man at Union Square today and has sent in his photo. Hopefully he will be posting soon. I'm so proud.

Freedom

After much consideration I have decided to spread my wings. I gave notice to Franklin Street that I am going to be exploring other opportunities. But I'm really just going to take a few months off. If anyone knows anyone or hears of any positions in DC, say around October, please shoot me an email at glenn224@hotmail.com.

Dammit, I wish I still had my RV! I could be truckin.

Hope to see you all soon.

Save the Date!

Chocolate Rain

I think I've shown many of you this. But for those of you who haven't seen it, enjoy its awesomeness.

Quests

Sounds like your friend is on a quest:

I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park, and you wanna bail out! Well, I'll tell you something, this is no longer a vacation . . . it's a quest! It's a quest for fun! I'm gonna have fun, and you're gonna have fun! We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our Goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling Zip-a-dee-doo-da out of your assholes! I've got to be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose! Praise Marty Moose!

I say good luck. If she wants a shot out in SF, lemme know.

a shot in the dark, maybe.

Hey guys! I'm wondering - does anybody in NYC know if there are spots for undergraduate interns in their creative department? I don't know how agencies work usually re:undergrad interns. Here is a snippet from the email I got from my friend Anna Kate:

My friend and co-intern, Matt Koulermos (mattkoulermos.com) and I are on the look out for an internship for the academic year. Any suggestions? I know most agencies (including Naked, probably) do not do an official Fall intern program. But we're happy to work for free (free! = academic credit) and we come as a team (AD and CW, once or twice a week - we're thinking Fridays). So, basically, we want to offer our youthful, trendy insights (and wear great shoes) to some awesome ad shop, weekly. For free. Did I mention that we want to work for free?

You'll notice that Matt there has a website up already --- I've set my personal deadline to catch up to 1998 and get my website up next week. Until then, my selling point is the working-for-free thing. And I fetch a mean Starbucks latte.

I met Anna Kate through my blog and have hung out with her a couple of times; she has so much enthusiasm and hunger to learn and create things. She's really wonderful... I can't speak for her friend because I don't know him, but she would be an excellent (UNPAID!) addition to any New York shop. All she wants right now is to learn and get different perspectives. She's a copywriting intern at McCann right now - she got the position over some rising portfolio-school-kids. Let me know if we can help Anna Kate!

Hope everyone is well. Favorite part of the summer? (:

Absolut New Orleans

This just makes me happy... Good job Naughton...

Disney Launching 2 Colognes For Pre-Teen Latin Boys

Does anyone think that 4 years old is too young to wear cologne?
Article starts out like this:

Smells Like Profit: Disney Eyes Pre-Teen Fragrance Market

NEW YORK -- Forget the smell of sweat, grass and dirt. Disney Consumer Products wants young boys smelling their best. Disney is rolling out Pirates of the Caribbean- and Buzz Lightyear-branded fragrances targeting boys ages 4-11 in Latin communities. The products, which will retail between $9.95 and $19.95, will reach retail shelves by September in time for the holiday season. "Our strategy is to go after the Hispanic population in the U.S," said Johanna Mooney, director of food, health and beauty at Disney Consumer Products, Burbank, Calif. "The market is driven by gift-giving, so we will target moms and grandmothers—the primary gift-givers." ..."I think it's a fabulous idea by Disney," she said. "The products will sell well. U.S. males are slower to get into the men's fragrance arena than European, Latin and South American men. There is an untapped market with huge potential here." - Rochelle Bloom, president of the Fragrance Foundation, New York.

Read the article here.

Absolut New Orleans

This is great.

"At the Tales of the Cocktail festival this week in New Orleans a new version of Absolut vodka is being launched. The festival is an annual event celebrating the art of mixology. For the first time, the Swedish vodka company is naming a flavor for a city. Absolut New Orleans is mango-flavored with a black pepper kick. The flavor is meant to capture the unique spirit of the city. The vodka will be a limited run of 35,000 cases and will sell for $19. The best part of the new is that the vodka is expected to raise $2 million for five Gulf Coast charities. Future city vodkas with a similar charitable aspect are planned for the future."

Read more here.

Connection Planning Conference

The site is finally live! Sign up for email updates. Check it out at http://www.polygamousweddings.com



Still in the process of confirming speakers but here's a leak!

October 26, 2007
New Orleans, LA [NOLA!!!]

Speakers:
Ed Cotton; Butler Shine Stern & Partners
Adrian Ho; Zeus Jones
Jim Elms; Barkley Evergreen & Partners
Gareth Kay; Modernista
Demian Brink; Boone/Oakley

Venue:
Le Chat Noir - a Cabaret Theater and Piano Bar located in a restored turn of the century New Orleans townhouse (715 St. Charles Avenue).

Also, the same weekend as the Voodoo Music Festival with Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against The Machine!

Join the Facebook Group here if you plan on attending. Feel free to invite people.

I can barely contain myself.

I'm taking the day off next Friday for the opening (I'm not kidding) if anyone wants to join me here in New York.

Well, we get a bunch of summer Fridays to take off, so I'm not really taking the day "off," just using one of my days...

(just thought some clarification was in order, I mean, I'm not completely stupid.)

But now that I think about it, a movie of this magnitude does kind of warrant a day off. Think about it...

Here's a funny thing spotted in this great city.

Anyone hiring junior planners?

I have a good book here.

AAAA Conference

Question #1 - Is anyone going to the AAAA Conference in San Diego on August 5th? I'll be there.

Question #2 - I'm driving from San Diego to San Francisco immediately after the conference. Does anyone want to take a road trip to go say hello to Josh and Sergio?

Walk it out mashup

This is hilarious.

Yahoo for Friday!

The world's tallest man shakes hands with the man hoping to be officially declared the shortest by the Guinness Book of Records.

Meathead

link

Chris Farley lives.

For some reason i can't get a title in here. Anyway, Flight of the Chonchords. Ya'll dig? I'm still undecided but I'm thinking yay.

17 days left...

This makes me happy.

Rough noise pick-up, but worth watching.
Found it a bit back when I couldn't get their other song "Trains to Brazil" out of my head... MONDAY.

Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan had an insight! It was hard for people to really absorb the meaning of large scale facts, like 426,000 cell phones are retired each day. So he decided to create art that visually represented some of the most unbelievable statistics about our consumption habits as a society. The result is a fascinating exhibition -- not sure how many pieces -- that according to the artist must be seen in person to get the concept. It is on display until the end of the month at the Von Lintel Gallery in NYC. If anyone finds out if it is traveling anywhere, I would love to hear about it if the West Coast is involved.

Check it out at http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Ethan Haas was right.

Let me start this off by saying, unfortunately I have yet to see the new Transformers Movie. During the trailer, however, there appears quite the teaser. It eventually points to a website just put up http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
Why the hell does this matter? It's the beginning of what can only be the latest and greatest Alternative Reality Game.
ARG's are the most exciting thing to evolve our industry in years. Years and years. Talk all you want about open dialogue,user-generated, new media and holistic branding campaigns. ARG's amalgamate all of those concepts and breathes life into it. Often they create whole ancillary worlds of interactivity that organically grow out of the original. Anyway. Solve the puzzles and sign up. It took me a bit for the first few, and then I fully went in search of the cheat for the last.
No, we didn't do it here- to me it has the feeling of Cloudmakers. Maybe Mekanism?

Interwebular chronicle hacking

http://jetblue.com/about/ourcompany/flightlog/index.html

4th

Hope it begins with a cold beer, keeps going after too much BBQ, crests as you watch fireworks boom, and ends will all your fingers still attached.

Tuesday

24NOLA.com

http://www.24nola.com/build.php

Tell all your friends. Official launch next Monday supported by aggressive interactive campaign.

Poor little guy.

TOM

http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html

Cool.

LINK

Monday

-sannah kvist

Aunt Jackie

Just wrote a post on my blog. As you guys know, I've been following dance moves within hip hop culture for a long time now and I've started to put some of the pieces together to understand how dancing is influential within that culture. I know the majority of you do not listen to Hip Hop but putting aside what you personally think about it, take a look at the post here. It's still kind of rough but would love to know what you planners think!

Check this website out

Aftertoomany.com

The videos are pretty shocking!

It was done by Grey in San Fran...definitely had a planner involved!

I miss all you guys and gals and wish the best to you all:)

The wind.

The wind's job.

Funny

give a man a pig and he'll eat for a day

give a boy a gun and he'll eat for a year.

mmmm bacon

Hey. This is neat.

A designer that works here sent me this.
They're made by one of his friends.

hoodies!

DAN DEACON - CRYSTAL CAT

Like fireworks in your brain.

Madison Square Park

You better be there Kumar!

love it.

Urban Hustler

http://promomagazine.com/research/other/urban_hustlers_emerge_study_060607/index.html

The group, rooted in hip-hop and street culture, is really defined more by psychographic standards than by their demographics. The segment “transcends race, ethnicity and geography,” Pettigrew said. “The mentality is their starting point is irrelevant.”

Urban Hustlers have a particular affinity for a range of products, including cars, high-end apparel and shoes, entertainment, cell phones and technology. They place a high premium on fashion and lifestyle and frequently use social networking sites to find and share information. And with an estimated $90 billion in spending power, that’s an important point for marketers.

Trumpet

http://adage.com/article?article_id=116986

"Well then, goodaye mate!"