Will it go down as comparable to the night that Domingo first crept onto the stage at La Scala? Or the opening night of Fiona’s Shaw’s “Hedda Gabler”? Or The Beatles at The Tavern (a venue which claims to hold no more than 200, but which appears on that night to have swelled, Tardis-like to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Planning’
The Triumph of Beauty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beauty, Planning, Travesty of All Things Gay on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Drunk and Shouting – Again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Creative, Drunk, Planning on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The sooner I realise that I am not to be trusted in professional company when the St. Joseph has been flowing for a couple of hours, the better. On Friday Old Friend In Advertising, Account Manager That I Have Changed My Mind About, Distractingly Breasted TV Producer, Common Sense Creative and Silent But Approachable Creative [...]
Beauty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Uses of Enchantment", Beauty, Cocteau, Planning, Strategy on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh I am having a lovely Planner-y time at the moment! I am having to ensure that I don’t usher Dame Pretention into the parlour and settle her down with a piping hot cup of ludicrousness, but I think (at the moment) that I am managing to steer the course right between “My word, that’s [...]
Working With Creatives
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Briefing, Collaboration, Creatives, Planning on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a fantastic session with Impossibly Chic Creative Director and Not Gay Gay Satan Creative Director. We held it in Madrid, where (even though it was a Public Holiday) we stayed talking about the creative territories for four briefs until nearly midnight. This is the bit of my job that I absolutely love. I’m [...]
Double Wank With Shit Chips
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Client, Planning, Workshop on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are, in advertising circles, too many people making a living by holding up a tube of toothpaste and forcing people to consider what it might be were it not, in fact, a tube of toothpaste. What kind of animal would it be? What kind of party would it host? Where would it do its [...]
Solitary Planner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, American Diva Planner, Planner, Planning on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 6th April 2007 The long week ends. My Favourite Client asked me to focus on one brand in particular, recently and I presented a proposed strategy on Wednesday which went better than I ever expected – as in the work that we do off the back of it now will be immeasurably better. Clips [...]
The Ogee Curve of Planning
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Planner, Planning on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 26th May 2007 Two days in New York with the most important global planners. Sometimes, these things are depressingly awful, but I have to say when Genuinely Nice Chairman opined that there was no other network that could boast comparable planning talent, looking around the room, I agreed with him. That was a nice [...]
I MAY Be A Moaning Twat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Planners, Planning on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday, 29th May 2007 I have a feeling that I am turning into the sort of person that I hate: a moaning twat. I think it’s the basis for much philosophy and a huge number of film franchises that the root of all that you hate is buried within you, but it’s a bit disconcerting [...]
Accustomed As I Am
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planner, Planning on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 15th September 2007 If you want a bunch of people to hate you within seconds, then your options are relatively wide-ranging. You can pronounce an interest in child pornography, an appreciation of Hale & Pace, wear Crocs, or use smiley emoticons when you communicate. Or: you can present to a group of fellow Strategic [...]
I Planner. I Twat.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Drunk, Old Friend at Work, Planning on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 23rd September 2007 Fucking hell: I made a RIGHT twat of myself on Friday night. I went to the pub with Old Friend At Work and Unimpressed Planner – and naturally, there were quite a few others from work there as well: including a man who shall now be known as Creative Baffled To [...]
