So I am not going to have a life for a week

I have been bombarded with a ton of work to do, and it is all due next week. It is going to be a lot of fun dont get me wrong, I mean I even get to pitch to Energy's ECD Dan for Labatt Blue. I think that will be awesome. And the other things are really cool things that I can either put in my book or just say that I have experience doing. My schedule is packed and I love it for that. I hate not having anything to do, but now I have too much. At least I will be busy.

very cool video

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

I could use words to explain this but it is much easier for you just to watch. It is very cool.

Cool new ad.

This is why I want to be in the biz. I want to make cool stuff like this. I know I know you are probably saying but aren't you a writer, this is all visual. Yeah I know but a script was written for that. Everything detailed out before anyone started to shoot it. You don't just go into a shoot with an idea in your head, it has to be refined to the essentials then it is ready for production. Sometimes even the best scripts don't make it, because the client doesn't see eye to eye with it.

Late night

Last night I was at the agency until 1am thinking of scripts that I had to write. I hope the scripts go over well since they are being presented right now. I have a feeling that if they like them we will have to rewrite them anyways but that is ok, I am more than happy to do that. I just want to get something done.

The thoughts are just not coming.

I have been working on a client all week. I have filled out a ton of ideas for where it can go. Some they liked some they didnt. I am happy to see one of the strategies my partner and I had still up on the board. People are writing stuff off of our idea which is cool and we are writing scripts off of theirs. I guess we are trying to give it a fresh new perspective.

We are having a difficult time thinking of scripts. We have written scripts but they have been boring and lame right now. Or at least that is my opinion on the matter. Hopefully something can get done soon because we are running out of time.

Intern Project

Here at Energy BBDO we are having an intern project. They split us in half and are having us work on Labatt Blue. We created our own agencies (of which I wasn't their for), and treat it like new business. We get to do pitches in front of our piers as if it was real.

It is really interesting that they chose to give us Labatt Blue. I really have not thought about that beer since I was last in Canada when my father and I drank a couple of cases when we were out in a boat. It is a good beer that no one really knows about. Well it isnt that good, except when you go out in the wilderness. Being out in a boat all day I really can not imagine a better beer to have in hand. It isn't heavy or thick it just goes down. Kind of like a Bud Light except in my opinion it has more flavor to it.

It will be interesting to see what our group comes up with. Right now my AD and I are waiting for a brief that should be coming by the end of this weeks sometime we hope. It will come down to a competition between the two Ad schools, Miami vs VCU, who will come out victorious?

I had a good weekend

This weekend I went up to a lake house in Wisconsin. I think the name of the town near by was called Laval or something. I went with my girlfriend. We only spent one day on the lake but it was fun. We left early, probably to early for a person that stayed out the night before until about 3 or 330. I got two angry phone calls around 7am about not being ready to go. The first call was the one that woke me up. That was fine because it gave me time to uninflate the blow up matress that I have been living on for the week. But in my girlfriends opinion I did not deflate it properly. My own body weight doesnt work well enough. I think the second call was the angriest because I wasn't waiting for her outside. But since I am a guy and I only have one thing to pack it didnt take me long at all to get the car packed. But she is a good GF when I got in the car and got over it quickly.

At the lake there was crazyness going on. We showed up there around 12 or so and the party was just beginning. They drove in right behind us with ten cases of beer for the day. Nothing to crazy but the night went on. To have some pretty bazar things happen, but overall it wasnt as crazy as the night before.

I had a good weekend.

A great man died this week.

Oscar Mayer died on monday and this is the first I am hearing of it. The man that brought hotdogs to all has passed away silently. The world will miss the man.
I wonder if he is going to have the Wienermobile at his funeral. Would that be his hurst or something? Would they make a hotdog casket? You have to admit that would be really cool. Everyone else settles for crappy wood ones why not be buried in a hotdog. It would be fitting he does have the most recognizable hotdogs on the planet.

My Bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R
My bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R
Oh, I love to eat it every day,
And if you ask me why I'll say...
'Cuz Oscar Mayer has a way..
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.


Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I'd truly like to be
'Cuz if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me

I love my job.

It is great when you wake up and you are excited to go to work. It gives you a sense of purpose in the world, there is never a dull moment.
I am really happy that I have found a job that I can not wait to get to. I am glad that I am past the point of saying "God I have to go into work again." My mode of transportation is not fast enough to get me there.
I hope you all work in a place that you want to get up and work at.

I am tired of the has been.

I am really tired of all of this coverage of Michael Jackson. They sold tickets to his funeral, come on, you bitch about him being in the public eye so much and then run a circus like that. They are searching for attention it seems like. They even had major news organizations covering the funeral live.
This is all for a person who hasn't done anything in over a decade except touch little children and pay them off with large sums of money. Does a Pedophile need all of this attention for his death, I think not.
I am really sick of all this coverage, it is just like that Anna Nicole bullshit but it will last longer unfortunately. Our news organizations should start covering more important things that actually effect people. Let the celeb gossip cover it.

It has been a while.

I know it has been a while since I last post but I have been moving yet again to a new city. I am starting to think that I move to much, 15 times in five years is ridiculous. But this is for another good reason. I am starting my summer internship today. I haven't really done much but it is the first day, when do you do anything in your first day.
I moved to Chicago this past weekend. But I still haven not unpacked my suitcase. Unpacking is always the last thing I do. I will live in a place for a week before I put one thing away. I guess my thought behind it is that I move so much that what is the point of taking things out that I will just have to put back in there in a few months. I hope one day I will be able to live in a place for longer but until then I will have to cope.