Awful Handwriting
Ad Ramblings and Web GuffArchive for November 17, 2008
Boredom Poster – My Work
A quick little poster tied to the boredom video from a couple of weeks back. We were supposed to do a poster for our films, but since we made an entire ad break it made more sense to make a fake press for one of the companies in the adverts instead – so meet the Personal Procrastination Lawyers4U’s latest promo!
Rome-ing around with Google Earth
Oh ho yes pun fans! Google have only gone and resurrected the ancient city of Rome in 3D in Google Earth – so now anyone can rome around, with or without a time machine!
For those of a more serious disposition, here’s a very grown up BBC News article. I think you’ll find it to be most informative.
Quiet Storm
Second workshop in this fortnight’s whirlwind tour was with Kat & Jo at Quiet Storm, where I’d not visited before, but hope to again. It was a brutal one – of the 20 or so teams that were to be whittled down to 10 for a crit, only 5 were allowed into the boardroom after a blazing putdown on a majority of the work that’d been brought along.
Fortunately Sarah & I were in on that lucky five so we actually got a pretty useful crit instead of a wasted train fare – but it was a lesson in taking things seriously that we were all in dire need of hearing. Should be interesting to see how it affects the work being brought along to JWT on Wednesday – or as I’ve come to know it, the satanbrief.
Mother
First workshop of the ‘X-Factor’ fortnight (yes, we’re that shamelessly commercial at Bucks) was an all-dayer at Mother with wonderkids Ben & Stu. I flunked it miserably so the less said about that the better, but as usual Stu was dishing out floods of lovely redeeming wisdom for us all to leech upon so a grand day was had by all. Lahvly.
No URL
Noticed this waiting for the train early Tuesday morning (bastard expensive one too, stupid 8am starts..). Not a shred of information on it that makes anything that obvious, and no url – just a search string (specifically google, none the less!) that you can look up provided you remember, which I didn’t. Which is pretty fortunate, since when I finally looked back through my photos and hunted it down, it turned out to be shitty promotion for shitty Dido’s new shitty album. Suddenly the lack of information on these otherwise intriguing posters makes a cackload more sense.
Nice, though. Urls are stupid and long – this is reminiscent of AOL’s old keyword system that used to be on every movie poster, only this one doesn’t rely on you being locked into a crappy subscription with the harbingers of interweb doom. More like this, please
