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W+Kisms, 07.01.08

So one of those days.  Talking with Elisa Silva when the room hums and the light dims and Portland gets hit by a blizzard in July.  Only, it's not a blizzard - its a bajillion bees bouncing off the windows, scooting up over the roof and coming to rest on the roof deck.  In the recently placed potted shrubs.

They calmed down into a mind-boggling, solid ball of bee-ness.

Had to call a beekeeper off the swarm list (you know, the hot list of available folks willing to duck out of their day job, don a reentry suit, and come pack off your Portland metro errant swarms.  No - seriously.)

On top of that, John Jay's coffee cup got lifted.  John Jay's coffee mugs are works of art, each far cooler than any of us will ever be.  This the latest to be pilfered:

Yes, my wife would have prefered this to the dime store ring she actually got for marrying me.

"e"'s got nothin' on ad agencies.

A recent interchange where music culture met TinyURL:

>TinyURL.com saved the world.

>>On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:32 PM, MA wrote:
>>QA killed copy + paste.

>>>On 6/3/08 12:28 PM, "CM"  wrote:
>>> Line break killed your link.
>>> TinyURL: http://xrl.in/5y

Got an internal brochure about posture

And we got this image to mull:

think...think....

yep.  How can she be motivated without her standard issue W+K "teamwork" mug, from Successories?

She'll be cranking soon.

On the Road to SGFoo Camp, 2/1/08

Nada Surf @ PDX

So they were jamming in the atrium, they sold out the Doug Fir, and here they are prepping for the flight to SFO just this am.  For indie rock stars, the boys were awful polite.

Nada E-Nuff 4 U?

"But that's not enough, Renny!  A mere pic?  We MUST have an alt rock video!"

Well, alright.

Neevel Knievel Freestylin'

Who needs an agency when anyone can get these kinds of production values now?

Another reason why I love W+K

Posted a shot of W+K's pitch team, joyously enjoyificating the bounties of D.C., when it got all UGC'ed to hell.

A powerful still from Woody Allen's "Mr Scrappers goes to Washington":

and when noted critic Dominic Miami (or is that Tampa? or...ah heck):

"Maybe I’m way off base but I think it would be cool if they had shotguns and rocket launchers strapped to their backs.  LTA needs some grenades and maybe a knife.  Maybe Luker could be chewing on a shotgun shell?  Also...that building in the background?  Whatever it is...it should be on fire." 

And lo, Frusciante looked upon this request and said, "it is good":

Your tax dollars at work - LTA, Steve and Jelly

consider their next move.  Scott Cromer makes a brief "where's waldo" cameo.

Social Media (cont)

 

Nirvana or hell.  [this blurry picture for Kevin]

David tokheim (6 apart - not pictured), matt ackley (ebay), rachel masters (ning), keith robbins (slide), brian dennehy (intuit)

Quotes/observations: - Not a fan of pre-testing creative - put it out and let darwin decide (brian)
- i don't agree 'marketers don't get it' - marketers are like little lizards that will send dollars wherever they get ROI (brian) - 'there's no easy button on social media' (david) - tiffany vs. Ebay tipped off today - what happens when your brand 'vgift' becomes the virtual equivalent of a burning bag of poop (pepsi)

Softball Q.1 - Where does social media fit in the mix? - building from scratch doesn't work - but wait it does (bodog) - if it works (or in this case, provides perceived value)
- 2 uses - awareness/utility, ignition. Fail faster.

Mashing it Up

Karl Long, Nokia (l).  Pale sleepless Renny (r).

Wordstock Promo Effort

W+K 12 gets ready to take Wordstock to the streets.

Jelly in SF goes off on HSPA

Jelly Helm discussing the finer points of open source protocols and interoperability standards over coffee.  Here he lays out key structural and philosophical differentiation points between HSDPA, HSUPA and the proposed HSOPA standards.  "Without clarity, this becomes alphabet soup as far as the user is concerned."