The update...

Well for all those who look regularly on here, you may have seen the toyota post we did, for some of our up coming portfolio work, well we finally got our mits on some magnetic paper and we made magnets yay! (yes it was very blue peter.)

Also we received our buisness cards today. But they were wrongly printed. :( so does anyone have any suggestions for what to do with 100 buisness cards that have the wrong email address on it? (we already tried to get the one which is printed on there but the person who has it lives in spain so i can't negotiate.)

The repeat...

Doctor Pepper has just re-released the "whats the worse that could happen" campaign. Why? is the question... why do agencies re- release campaigns, with such creativity going on in this country there shouldn't be a need to do this anymore!

The attempt....

Ok, sorry about the blurryness but i was trying to take a photo quickly and it went a little too quick. It seems that someone wanted to out-do fallon before the release of Foam city.... It didnt work very well....

That white bit is foam I assure you and not some snow left over from the weird weather were having! For those not aquinted with manchester, there is a small fountain that runs through a man made river in the central part of the city, but it seems the scallies got their hands on fairy liquid again.

The Naughtiness....

Naughty naughty Mexican TBWA....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/us_nm/mexico_absolut_dc;_ylt=AjGhiJslh0NDbgLYBMCzhqTlWMcF

The ad shown above is causing rather a lot of controversy and I can see why! 

The disappearance...

I'm worried. Yes it seems most of the creatives in London have disappeared. we've been ringing around some agencies but everyone is away from their desks! 

Although, we have just confirmed an appointment with MCBD (they sound a little crazy on the phone but thats a good thing, right?). 

The waiting game...

Were one week away from London crit week 2, and Debbie and I are playing our favourite game again... Inbox babysitting. Constantly watching for emails from agencies regarding book crits...

So far Saatchi and Saatchi, AMV BBDO and TBWA are lined up for next week with a couple more possibly confirming in the next couple of days.... heres hoping.

Portfolio night just got a bit more hectic, W+K first thing on the 8th, then Lunar BBDO later on in the day followed by portfolio night. That day's gonna be a wild one!

We might also have something lined up with karmarama, but thats still in negotiations hehe.

Apart from all that... I had a bit of a giggle today one of those evil parking attendants patrols right outside our studio window, and he was happily sticking tickets on peoples car and taking photos as evidence (he had no clue that I was taking photos of him from above). When he went back to his mopedy thing I noticed he had a huge "L" plate stuck in his windshield! they'll let anyone run around with those tickets wont they! Do you think he was learning to drive the moped or learning to be one of the most hated workers on the planet?

The change...

OK after some constructive coments (thankyou :) ) we have decided that we should change the toyota strapline of our campaign back to what we originally thought of: 'Big fun, small car' It makes more sense as its become heavily about games...

we've been working hard trying to get our book together for book crit week 2 which is coming up the 14th April... now were just waiting for a few people to get back to us and we should be sorted!!

The wednesday ritual...

Well, every wednesday (as its orange wednesday) Debbie and I take a break from advertising and head off to the cinema watching one maybe two movies and this week was Step up 2 and Horton hears a who! Step up 2 is pretty much your sequal with the same story line as the original just shaken up a bit, but the dancing was incredible much better than the original.
Horton hears a who is quite strange... very much a kids movie but strangely enough it ws quite disturbing in places! Theres a strange sort of fascist leader kangaroo, which is quite scary and at one stage they even say that its not ok for men to do ballet. Probably me being picky but for a kids movie i was quite worried! Otherwise it is really funny and really beautifully animated!

Also when I got home Wieden and Kennedy had finally agreed a date with us for a book crit yipee!!!! its meant we've to fork out for a hotel stay but thats ok!

The Remix...

Well as soon as trucks was released a lot of people were thinking how they could remix it and there are some pretty good ones!
Over on Youtube you can find the ad to the tune of:

Bon Jovi: Living on a prayer
Phil Collins: The world we live in (also to be found on Adam Richardsons blog)
Europe: The final countdown
But this one has to be the best so far....

The survival!!!

Thankfully being the easter hols, everyone was at home for april fools day but it still meant we had to watch our backs.... and we survived YAY!

Love the way that CHI are trying to pass their security breach off as an early april fools.....

"everyone at CHI knows we are all earning double that!"

I feel sorry for the poor placement person who has the email "workexperience3" They're account was where the email first appeared! They must have been cacking themselves thinking they were going to be blacklisted for life!

This is what adland came up with for the 1st...

(BMW's is talking about electricuting dogs that pee on the wheels of their new 4x4)

And this from the BBC: