This was Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director’s Body question to me as we sat together on a flight to Milan, pondering the identity of a colleague’s adopted children. Said colleague is gay, and he and his partner have adopted two Guatemalan children, both boys. The youngest of these two boys (who [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director’
Creativity and Collaboration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, Creativity, Singapore, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am at the start of what I think is going to be a very long process of writing a book on the above idea. I’m looking at collaborations between partners in diverse fields, hoping to identify a series of common principles or even practices that can be imported into any situation where creativity is [...]
The Ur Playground
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, facebook, Twitter, Wife, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wife has come to the opinion that the defining location in humans’ lives is the school playground: there is simply too much “adult” behaviour that confirms her in this belief for her to consider otherwise (she has recently been subjected to the oddest bout of “I want you to be my friend, not hers” and [...]
Angry and Disappointed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Favourite Client, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friday saw me fuming at Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director, but falling short of the full shouty-crackers, as he has the resilience and maturity of Daughter, and I saw no point in entering the weekend in a really bad mood. Essentially, he didn’t show up for work all week (two days [...]
The Return
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, New Year's Resolutions, Old Friend at Work, Travesty of All Things Gay, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My return to work is imminent. I have already had lachrymose e-mails from both Old Friend At Work and Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director on this subject – and the consensus is that we are not filled with joys at the impending return, nor are we simply going to go ahead [...]
Re-Christening
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged French Account Guy Who Wants to be Spanish, So Gallic It's A Joke, Unspeakably Chic Creative Director, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, 20th September 2007 The beginning of this week was spent at our agency in Madrid, working with Ludicrously Suave Creative Director; Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director and So Gallic It’s Ludicrous Account Guy. But this last character has become even more comic: he has now bought so whole-heartedly into living [...]
New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Good Friend in PR, New York, Sister, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 13th October 2007 I had a fantastic time in New York: a work trip that was far less arduous than I had been expecting, and every day spent with Sister and Nephew, which was a real joy. The work was brief and simple: Woody Allen Creative Director is a joy to work with and [...]
