JAR DRAW

Does any one have a jar draw?

It doesn't necessarily have to be called a jar draw, it could be called a plastic container draw. . . or whatever.

Anyway, we have one in our house and it’s where all the old penis butter, jam jars, take away containers and drink bottles are kept. The only problem is that NONE of these containers or bottles HAVE LIDS.
It’s like puzzling over why you have so many odd socks. ANNOYING.

Send in the Cavalry

Word has it that former Campaign Palace Creative director Ron Mather and ‘Not Happy Jan Man’ Tony Greenwood are launching their own creative company in Port Melbourne - The Cavalry. Apparently they are working for Clemenger at the same time (on separate projects); Masterfoods and Fonterra. They say that they are going to wok with heaps of different people that they have worked with in the past . . . resulting in fewer overheads.

Bob Isherwood

Ed is a suck . . a genuine brown noser . . . and it's bloody brilliant. Ed (AKA Jill Powells pet) was asked to design an invitation for a Q&A session that Jill had organized for us
RMIT students to have with Bob Isherwood (WW Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi) last Tuesday. Jill also asked Ed to MC it. So Ed rang me and I got in on the gig too.
Due to our concern that the students in the audience would have no questions we took it upon ourselves to devise some of our own. In our research we discovered that Bob has a penchant for an occasional bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage vintage 1976 (lets not be picky Bob!). So Ed and I decided that’s exactly what we would give him in thanks for coming back to RMIT to speak (kinda).

Now this is a $1000 bottle of wine and we are poor uni students. So we did the next best thing and mocked up a Grange hermitage label for the front and a little speil about how he’s been ‘HAD’ on the back, stained it with wine and tea . . . and away we went.

He open the bottle said ‘wow’ and looked a little taken back and then later realized that he’d been duped. According to Jill he was giggling about it through lunch and said that he would love to pull the gag on some of his mates.

Give us a call Bob and we’d be happy to mock up the labels gratis.

JAPAN

I've recently come back from Japan where I turned into a powderhound for 10 days in Hirafu - Niseko. Hirafu is a ski village on the North Island (Hokkaido) and is considered ‘the country’. I can seriously recommend going. Great snow (thanks to some crazy winds from Siberia), amazing food, and heaps of tiny little bars run by x-farmers.

Hanks bar was one of our favourites – a little wood cabin with writing all over the walls. Hank cooks you food on the grill of his open fire, which you can sit round while patting one of his four cats.

It’s still an enthusiast resort . . . I suggest heading over before it get seriously overdeveloped.

Oldie but a Goodie

For those of you that did not read the media section of The Age this morning - an article on Australia's favorite and hated ads graced the front page. According to a survey done by SO&M, animal ads or ads that feature ‘humble Australian truths’ are more popular. Those ads showing distorted human body parts (Mentos & Tooheys), or yelled at the audience are least liked. However what struck me as odd was that the ‘keep the rabbits out’ ad by bigpond (which I laugh at without fail every time) made both the top 10 hated and top 10 loved. Voted as Australia’s favourite TV advertisement the Bigpond ad has doubled the company’s rate of growth during the 18 months that it’s been on the air.

The ad must have struck some serious home truths for those people that despise it!!! Can't please everyone I guess.

Top Ten Ads
1. Bigpond - Great wall of China
2. Carlton - Big Ad
3. Carlton - Flashbeer
4. Optus - Animals in suburbs talking

5. Optus - Animals in jungle singing
6. PAL - dog in back seat of car
7. HAHN - bomb in the swimming pool
8. RACQ - charter boat
9. Commonwealth bank - Pregnant Women on bus
9. Hahn - spa bath bomb
9. Citroen - transformer dance
10. Drawing in sand of boobs/loveheart