Burka Burka Burka Burka

In an attempt to show Tom how much I appreciate him, I sent him on assignment to Dubai and Abu Dhabi for the next week.

He will be observing Arabic focus groups and trying not to offend too many people.

I'm pretty sure since he's started we've been in the office at the same time maybe a day and a half.

This works perfectly, except when he sends out all agency emails without runnin' them by me first.

Take this one, on his first day, for example:

Subject: the coolest

planner ever to work here.
compliment my beard and i will buy you a pint of your choice.
seriously. i need to make friends.


That little doozy was quite the hit.


By the way, how do ya'll feel about the planner survey?
Saw that Fallon Planning Blog is the second most read, which will probably spiral downward in popularity now that Tom has to post to it.

Port O'Brien aka. Port O'Face Melting Awesome

This band is so good. Its so good that:
I. Can't. Stop. Listening.

It's so good that I know the words and jumble them up when I'm singing in the shower.

It's so good that I wish to know these people personally.

It's better than average music, and I will gladly give it to you, if only to know that you will thereafter be in debt to me.

Listen to it on Myspace, then hurdle yourself electronically towards me.
http://www.myspace.com/portobrien

Here's a thing.

I assume this is the customary mode of transportation in Minnesota?

I'm moving there.

Next week.

Fallon.

Hope I don't have to cut the poor thing's stomach open and use its innards for warmth...

NYTimes.com - the new social networking site.

Speaking of finding people unexpectedly...

It's disturbing that I can recognize him by the bottom half of his face... (I half hope I'm wrong)... but check out 00:53 of the video... mmmmm African berries:

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=1615a44db1aa2c70758ae67c12b06cb1f4be9808

Miss Dzurko I presume...

There are many of us, two years out, that have changed jobs.
A good bunch of us have jumped cities.
There have been relationship gymnastics.
Weddings.

And with any move, things get lost in the shuffle.

But isn't it great when something you didn't even know was missing surprises you like a $20 in an old pair of culottes?

From the site: http://www.kwikkopy843.com/about/staff.html

Caroline Dzurko, General Manager

"Caroline has worked at Kwik Kopy since she was 16. She spent her summers during high school and college here, waiting on the counter and working in bindery. Caroline graduated from Longwood University in 1999 with a BA in English. She taught school in Chesterfield County for five years before deciding to come learn the “Family Business”.

She is responsible for the day to day running of the business, and with a strong creative background she is the “go to” girl for your special marketing projects.

When she’s not working, Caroline enjoys physical fitness, camping, reading, slinging beers at the Race track, entering bikini contests, and spending time at her summer home in the Hamptons."

I wish her well.

Dish me up a bowl of that too, Mary

Or, how far we've come...

Nerds.

This is the only pic that we have seen so far - the professional ones should be ready soon!

the sick kids got hitched!

and now they're in mexico! but congrats to everyone's favorite adcenter couple (voted "couple with the most staying power" in the underground poll that never got published).

however, knowing them and their luck, krissie, er, kristin, has probably come down with diphtheria, kevin may or may not have gotten spit on by a gang of homeless mexican eunuchs and one of their oxen drowned while they attempted to ford the river.

have fun lovers and come home safely!

happy birthday, sexy! (or, i dated the wrong art director...)

KICKBALL

Tom loves headbands.

Everbody's favorite cucumber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqUspQBq38

According to BBH Art Director Andy Tider, the story goes something like this, "This week I decided to leave my position as an Art Director at BBH New York. This being BBH though, I couldn't just go out with a "goodbye letter". So I spent my last night as a BBH employee stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. On video. Then I sent it to the entire company."

Noteworthy on this blog mostly for the brief mention of an old friend, the owner of a gourd at 1:46.

call me crazy...

remember that project we had to do for charlie where we were supposed to develop a community model. well, if there is any chance you still have your project OR at least have the deck charlie gave us, i'd really appreciate it if you could e-mail it to me. i'm working on developing something along those lines for work and i could use those as a reference.

i know, i know. i'm sure you're thinking to yourselves, "danielli, why don't you just use that awesome rah + monolith + whip presentation you, josh, kumar and brandon made?"

i think you all know the answer to that one.

if you've got them, send the decks to danielli (dot) alejos (at) gmail (dot) com.

smooches!

Welcome to Earth, Millie Lou

Hello All,

I am officially an aunt. 

Miller Louise Chopski was born February 13th. 

I hope you are all doing well and prospering and all that jazz.

Minnesota

BFFs

Congrats, jwb. Give Danny a squeeze for all of us.

Frozen Tundra

Well Hello,
It recently came to my attention that San Francisco, for most of the year, is just too agreeable. It's making me hippy soft. Not good. So, I climbed out of my joyfully static state and jumped ship to Fallon. Where it is (-) degrees much of the year; tough. It also is the same city and building that houses Daniel Burke; near impossible. I imagine this will make me a better person, or at least grant me super powers.

You may be reading this and asking yourself- so how does this benefit me? Fair enough. If you live in NYC, I will now be forced to visit your vile concrete slab once or so a month. I will invariably buy you some drinks or trinkets. Boon to you. For the rest of you with the good sense not to live in Satans' Whale Eye, you now have a adviser to steer you successfully through such thorny topics as- Why do people ice fish? Isn't Prince from Minnesota? What is it like to live so close to North Dakota (does it even exist?), and other hot-wire topics of the day.

So, I think we can all agree this is the best thing for us. Well done. I knew we could do this.


P.S.
Oh, and about the blog belonging to me- that's just silly- but YOU posting every now and again would be ice dragons.

This blog owned by Brandau

until further notice.

Portfolio Night 6

Watch Boyko promote Portofolio Night on this link:

http://portfolionight.com/aroundtheworld/

Glory Days

The only reason Danny wasn't in this photo is because he was rushing to the hospital with a broken finger.

Orange slices, Gerard's knee injury, and the ladies with 40's.

The best packaging in the world