over 30, no purple sunglasses

please. lets stop this now. no one over 30 in advertising should wear purple glasses.

Production trips = wine appreciation classes?

So I've been fortunate enough to sell work and go on shoot a few times. And something that annoys any and all of the bejeezus I might still contain is the drinking habit of 30+ advertisers. Somehow, a corporate tab mixing with a lack of personal responsibility is a perfect storm that results in holy-shit pretense that's too damned thick to be cut with the fucking Ginsu knives used in the hoity-toity, self-important, upscale Benihana knock-offs they insist on eating at every night on production. Me, my partner (also under 30), our CD, producer, and director have dinner and between the three elders--whoops!--there goes $800 for four bottles of wine.

The real reason American's gives so little to civic causes abroad? The money exists, but it's given to 30+ advertisers who are less in touch with world issues than their apparent wine appreciation classes. Fuckers.

Hey! Look What I Found?

So they have this new web site out called Adsoftheworld.com, perhaps you've already heard about it? Apparently it's this great site where my CD's can post work and feel accomplished while sifting through a sea of disparagement submitted by second year ad students. Or maybe they're still in their first year, considering that's when I use to leave comments, three F*ckin' years ago! 

In related news, they have these new things out called blogs...