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I recently took a field trip for Copy Concepts to the Museum of Jurassic Technology and later that day, Royal T. Both were located on the ultra-hip tip of Culver City aka as part of the “West Side” of Los Angeles. Yes kiddies, even when you’re on the Wesside, there is still a ‘West Side’.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a faux museum, meaning that everything on display is fake. That’s right kiddies–FAKE! Nothing is real. Going in there, one wouldn’t think so given that the entire place is littered with intricate biographies, video and descriptions on each display. There are a few creepy parts, as the museum can take on a sort of super-natural or paranormal feel. But have no fear.
Royal T is a hip Japanese cafe / art collection nearby. It features some work from Murakami (the owner is a BIG fan) and other works. Inside, you’ll find a hip cafe where all the waitresses are dressed Harajuku. I have a friend that would LOOOOOOOOOOVE to come here. The collections are rad and the food and service kicks.
I had uber fun hanging out with my class and roaming ‘See-City’ like tourists. Here’s are some of the picts I snapped along the way.
Here’s a clip from a little known advertising movie entitled Crazy People and probably my first instance of running into advertising that I could remember. The premise of the film is that an advertising exec, played by Dudley Moore, hits his breaking point when he actually uses honesty in the client’s advertising. He’s admitted into a mental institution in which all the patients help him to concept even greater advertising. He falls in love along the way, yada yada and advertising saves the world once again. How the ad campaigns got by without the clients approval I can’t remember, but it’s a funny movie anyway. Plus, it’s quite funny to me that as misleading all ads seem to be–good ads are quite honest. Another thing about this movie that I appreciate is the idea that advertisers are somewhat crazy, which is true. How else do you think we come up with those brilliant ideas? Okay, maybe this movie goes WAAAAAAY off the edge with the ideas, but you gotta know how far you can go before you know how close you can come. Anyway, still makes a funny movie. There’s a classic line that I’ll always remember in a pitch to Sony in the movie which goes something like this,”Sony. Bony.”
Check out the clip for yourself and rent it for the best night of Dudley Moore since Arthur II.
Just saw this and laughed out loud. Had to post!
So what, PCs still suck balls! More of this on PC World article posted today. Here’s the jump:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007780.html
So I’m looking for sites on mixtapes, anything that can be download-able. I’m sure there are hundreds of sites that I can choose from…
So I google up “mixtapes” and am presented with circus wealth of mixtape websites on the latest in crunk-and-bump hip hop. Not bad, but not my flavor. I prefer the boom-bap of rap. I like my shit MIXED, and not shouting over the lyrics like you were CB-1, or something. Anyway, I didn’t find much, but I’ll keep looking…
Daylight.
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To the both of you that subscribe to this blog…PARTY!
Stereo August 22, 2008
Found out that the chair to my Ad department helped bring this commercial to life. So funny…
Here are some more from all over the world. High-larious! Enjoy.
Okay, well I feel better now–that’s the good news. The bad news is that I’m going to have to dig deep and get shit done in less than 24 hours. I know I can do this; I’ve done it before. For now, I’m glad I came to grips with the fact that I was lacking a maturity in my work ethic. I finally took a good look in the mirror and realized what I’m doing this all for. How ironic that at the same time, eureka struck once again and I was inspired with the theme I was looking for. I hope it’s not too late. See you on the flip side.
Oh and by the way, I changed the header to the new logo. Gangsta.
FINALS SUCK BIG BALLS!!!
I cried for the first time today because I realized how much I SUCK as a student and how much I SUCKED as an Art Director. I just let it out and asked God to help me with strength, patience, and perseverance. This prayer is for me and anyone at school who needs a little help from a higher source.
I going to FAIL HARD just to realize what I’m made of, and how much I need to learn in order to ENDURE…
I believe that Jim “Wojo” showed this in our Comm 1 class last week. Superb-ness…
Found this video on youtube looking for a particular scene from Mad Men. It’s a short, amateur produced interview with Bill Blackshaw, old school BBDO, retired. I happen to think that ad people never really retire, we just die. Pretty interesting. Enjoy.
Found out more about these inspiring “Go World” Visa ads. The ad agency to these out is TBWA/Chiat Day, New York. Visa used to be with BBDO with supposed 20-year history, then switched over to Chiat. What’s funny is that BOTH of these agencies are owned by a single parent company–Omnicron. If I could just find out who the AD or CD was that would be awesome. I’ll probably come across it somehow. I like the choice of Morgan Freeman being key in the branding voice of these commercials, almost reminding us of his “God” roles in the Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty movies. Anyway, here are more for your viewing pleasure as well as some promos on background…
BEST DAMN COMMERCIAL ON THE OLYMPICS EVER!!!
Here’s the story…
Love love love this commercial.
Things have moved quickly for me. I started school and feel fuckin DEPRESSED! hahaha FUCK! I didn’t think it would be like this. I’m pushing trough tho. Gave myself yesterday to sit down and think school through. I feel like I’m behind, but I’m stuck with it. I can’t believe the amount of work we have.
“Lordamercy! Chrisamercy! Lordamercy! Let us PRAY!”
For now, I’m just typing on this thing. Wondering who’s reading this…
Shout out to Utah, Arizona! and China baby! What up Cancer! haha-ha-ha
I seriously try to picture myself graduating already. Getting to that next step. I wonder sometimes if I really deserve having a good life. I’m scared. I’m human! I’m trying to not just GET through this, but also opening my eyes and my heart to learn and make the most of it all. It’s funny, it sounds like I’m describing a bad date. But its not, I’m just bitching and moaning really…haha
I saw the gents the other day. I must say, we’re all doing out own thing nowadays. There’s no tension, but I feel like I have to get to know them again a little more. I feel like they’re losing the person that they knew who was me. To complement that, I’m actively trying to rediscover them over and over again. I just miss youth, and every time I see them it reminds me of it. I feel like I’m sick of myself. I want to go back in time and talk to me at 15 and let him know that everything will be alright…you’re going to fuck up, a lot! I want to remember how I got here. I want to look forward and believe in myself.
My family is pretty good right now. We’ll always be messed up tho. I really don’t know what it is about us – David’s. Its almost like, I have the most interesting family on earth. We’re not happy– we’re not sad– we’re just there together. And we have this awesome power inside us, but we’re trying to find out what that mystery is. So in the meantime, let’s live together. We love each other, and we hate each other. But we’re family– You know?
I had something that almost sounded like an argument a little over a week ago with my mom. She asked my about school. She asked me if this is what I truly wanted to do. I feel like she was drilling me. We fussed, but I needed to know that she was okay with me going back. I needed her to really support me on this. My mom is SO FUCKIN REAL. And I will always love her for that. Her life was so hard and she could be quite overprotective and overbearing. She has her good days and bad days, and God willing she’s WAITING FOR GRANDCHILDREN! haha
I’m not ready for any sort of relationship right now tho. That’s for real. I got a lot of plans for myself that I’m trying my hardest to fulfill.
My mom and I fussed even more. In the end, my mom asked me if I was happy. I said yes. I meant it. She stopped the barrage of questions. She must’ve seen something I didn’t realize in myself, I guess. I could only speculate. haha
The scary thing is admittedly, I’ve been a flake before, and I’ve made many MANY mistakes and missteps in my life. But seriously, as shameful as it may seem to others…I’m so glad I made all those mistakes! Because the most important thing to me is that I LEARNED. I’m proud of myself right now in making a decision at THIS point of my life to take this route. It’s not EASY! But I’m aiming high for myself; can you guess how high I’m aiming?
The point being, I know that its tough to maintain complete control over certain things in my life. But I chose this route and I’m taking it. In the long run my education will keep me up on those lonely nights, it will fuel my brain to think clearer than I’ve ever known, and help me find a good woman. Just like how my dad found my mom.
Mom helped make me and bore me for 9 months dammit– and she wants grandkids!!!! Well then, I’m going to find a good woman to make the best darn grandkids possible! I owe her that.
But yea, school sucks…
So when I got up this morning I would have never imagined what kind of a day I would have.
First thing I did today was get my finances in order for school. Consolidation of debt of credit cards and loans, cancellation of recurring fees – like website projects I don’t even manage anymore were my routine. I still have to come up with a report to hard to my parents to cosign on the loan for school. At least this way, they can see the financial road map that I’m getting in to. I’m putting it all in front of them. I’m putting it all in front of me. I even looked up the cost of life insurance, you know, just in case in the dire circumstance I happen to die and leave my parents with this loan. I felt somewhat empowered by the whole experience. I still have to finish up tho. Sucks.
But my day got even crazier as I decided to go for a run at the Rose Bowl. Not AT the Rose Bowl…TO the Rose Bowl. I figured that I’m running the same distance around it as I could run to it. So I confirmed with my dad just exactly how many miles it would be to run to the Rose Bowl. “Probably three and a half to four miles…”, he said. I figured that I already knew the averages of how long it takes me to run the whole course once. It takes about 45 minutes. And even if I didn’t make it to the Rose Bowl, I could at least run for 45 minutes and no matter where I end up, I would know that if I ran 45 minutes back from where I came, I would end up that the same spot, right? So I ran to the Rose Bowl. Awesome.
I also went to the shooting range today with Erwin. It the first time I ever fired a gun. Pretty awesome stuff. I’m not into it. E bets that I’ll probably get into it. I don’t think I will. But I do know that it’s important to understand at least, just for the mere fact that I would have some working knowledge of how to handle a firearm.
Peculiarly. I ran into a lot of “almost’s” today. I almost….got into a car accident, ran over a cat, got chased by a big ass black dog,..okay maybe not “a lot” but hey, it was “almost” a lot.
