tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75908889173773019932024-02-06T21:40:45.541-05:00False Advertisinganna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-75706608216347665372007-08-18T21:48:00.000-05:002007-08-18T22:06:58.066-05:00sorry.I considered posting that the reason I hadn't blogged here in so long (in internet years, at least) is because I was hit by a taxi cab and in the hospital regaining my memories for a few weeks.<br /><br />However, that is an absurd lie. And I wouldn't really expect anyone to believe it. <br /><br />Truthfully, all that happened was that everything suddenly got super super busy. And that's hardly an excuse since most people working in this industry are probably equally swamped... But I got a ton of new assignments plus was trekking out to daily interviews for a job for post-McCann and this little hole in the world wide web took a backseat to all of that. Let's try this once more, with feeling, okay?<br /><br />I DID get a job, anyway. Part-time, since I've still got one more year of school to go. I'll be working as a junior at a production studio in Manhattan. I thought that before I invested upwards of $30K to get an adschool degree in copywriting, I'd go ahead and make sure I don't enjoy the production side of things more. And since I've already done sound/video editing for various side projects, I qualified. And there's that one small thing about a job being a job.... Since I'm trying to pay my way through an undergraduate degree in New York City, I also had to get a gig nannying 15 hours a week. So when I add it all up, I'll be working/taking classes for seventy hours a week. Not taking into consideration classwork I'll need to do at home or overtime I'll need to pull on either job. Of course, again with the complaining! I'm sure I'll work just as hard, or harder, at my first (second, third, fourth?) full time agency job. <br /><br />Suddenly I'm tired....<br /><br />The internship program at McCann ended last week. Which is both happy and sad. I've been doing the tour of adschools since then, stopping in Richmond to interview at The Adcenter and then Atlanta for The Creative Circus and The Portfolio Center, and next I'm heading to Miami for Miami Ad School. I'll fly back to NY to start my last year of undergrad and the two new jobs after Labor Day! <br /><br />In other news, I was friends with Julie Roehm on Facebook before Ad Age made it cool, and I watched Mad Men last night and give it no stars.<br /><br />I'll try to be a better blogger in the future.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-10383953271945497342007-07-25T08:40:00.000-05:002007-07-25T09:11:04.088-05:00Alien Invasion?<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4kTkOgHO4pA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4kTkOgHO4pA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br />I've been sporadic with my postings because the office had to be closed down for the rest of the week after the steam explosion, and so we've been scrambling to catch up to the clients' schedules this week. Oh, fun. <br /><br />But in the meantime, did any of you realize that counterfeit Harry Potter books are such a large problem in China? Which to me, seems bizarre --- faking a book. Maybe I'm naive, but it seemed like one of the very few objects you just couldn't make a knock off from. Yeah, sure - maybe making illegal copies of said book is a realistic problem. But these fake Harry Potters are actually books that CLAIM to be part of the series by JK Rowling, and make lots of money off of really excited Chinese children until it is (generally quickly) discovered they are of a much poorer quality, and leave out many of the main characters and settings. This isn't a problem in English speaking countries, because there was such hype and craze over the exact release date of all of these books. But the translated versions aren't as strictly distributed, since they usually don't get published in mass until after the English ones. So when that happens you get:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRBaA3JvjWwdSVhH4ntbJMxGOaw8cJyLL8tLSGQhNk1U20ML_ti_mAzmfN8-qwRhTFndLINs516PDElMkmvTnfasaXod5gDJ-DrZgdiEz_Dq4pxRUOG1gL6DWDP_LqQgWQN9K2N317r0/s1600-h/fillerofbig.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRBaA3JvjWwdSVhH4ntbJMxGOaw8cJyLL8tLSGQhNk1U20ML_ti_mAzmfN8-qwRhTFndLINs516PDElMkmvTnfasaXod5gDJ-DrZgdiEz_Dq4pxRUOG1gL6DWDP_LqQgWQN9K2N317r0/s320/fillerofbig.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091135944723264690" /></a><br /> <br />(actual book cover, actually sold.)<br /><br />More soon.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-82276013123599620922007-07-18T21:06:00.000-05:002007-07-18T21:19:25.527-05:00Explosion in NYCThe building where I work is on 41st Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue. This evening, just as people were starting to leave for home, there was a huge explosion just on the corner of Lexington and 41st. My AD was just outside at the time, she was so startled that she dropped and broke her phone. One man died of a heart attack, at least fifteen others were injured. Hundreds of people started screaming and the steam made it difficult to see anything. They evacuated our building, and those around it, they shut down the subways, people were running uptown in masses. <br /><br />Apparently the problem was with an underground steam pipe that had been constructed in 1924. Cold water (from the rain this morning?) had gotten in the pipe and caused the explosion. To add to everything, reports say that the now-gaping-hole in the street may have released asbestos into the air, and that all of those evacuated people were breathing them in. <br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SImhkapRuIs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SImhkapRuIs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Somebody put that footage up on Gothamist. <br /><br /><br />I don't even know what to say. Just that it's terrifying.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-67319522676744425422007-07-13T16:16:00.000-05:002007-07-13T16:31:35.745-05:00FREE APPLES FOR EVERYONE!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qtfeJdOZ4rv2kU2XDqoiJliDfRqiz4FgFPca4-Qb1EMhWdiNu_FsnstvRJqoT9-_pSdE7EbyYELeqJVvc8WLzNDYyW_Uh6qXvU4Dxz0L1tvEGQLr6eYe8dckROD5xceVuGqY6y0jymE/s1600-h/c01060.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qtfeJdOZ4rv2kU2XDqoiJliDfRqiz4FgFPca4-Qb1EMhWdiNu_FsnstvRJqoT9-_pSdE7EbyYELeqJVvc8WLzNDYyW_Uh6qXvU4Dxz0L1tvEGQLr6eYe8dckROD5xceVuGqY6y0jymE/s320/c01060.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086793552899765346" /></a><br /><br /><br />Coming back from lunch today, I was in the elevator with a guy dressed as an apple, carrying a basket of apples.<br /><br />"Umm. What floor?"<br /><br />Him, the apple - "28, please."<br /><br />And as the doors went to slide shut, his apple leaf head-dress got caught in between them and the leaf came off. <br /><br />Later this afternoon, I found out that he was here to let us know we won the Applebee's account in the pitch against TBWA/Chiat/Day. <br /><br />I guess that's what it must be like to be the lucky Applebee's intern.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-34600359305697958122007-07-12T12:02:00.000-05:002007-07-12T14:00:48.245-05:00Sprint regrets to inform you...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHbimMIfKSVqjNn8vcnOcKsd-PvnmrqC6gokbwCEV5jWiVDOgOKJh-f-qeAeazcSKQ-ji24O7AI-1dB_TRV8Abo0aoYvT5fGoahccc008hoNx7sN9ioM0ObtJVEax_h2m4YQXBISKj8c/s1600-h/SprintLetter_550x590.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHbimMIfKSVqjNn8vcnOcKsd-PvnmrqC6gokbwCEV5jWiVDOgOKJh-f-qeAeazcSKQ-ji24O7AI-1dB_TRV8Abo0aoYvT5fGoahccc008hoNx7sN9ioM0ObtJVEax_h2m4YQXBISKj8c/s320/SprintLetter_550x590.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086356947999290450" /></a><br /><br />This letter was sent to 1,000 of Sprint's now-former customers because, according to the company, they complained too much. <br /><br />Now, I really do like their newest advertisements with the light-images (http://sprintahead.com). But this move seems pretty idiotic. I'd think that part of being a global service provider would be putting up with a handful of whining customers. Firing them? Not so much. It seems most of Sprint's peers would rather go bankrupt before biting the hand that begrudgingly fed them. But I'm sure Amp'd Mobile wishes they'd written this letter several months ago...anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-76140095688182225322007-07-10T13:59:00.000-05:002007-07-10T14:28:09.207-05:00I miss the windIt's been busy this past week, and I haven't had as much time to spend on the blogosphere as I'd like. But I did come upon this gem via Brandflakes for Breakfast and I absolutely love it. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2mTLO2F_ERY"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2mTLO2F_ERY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />And this is what the kids in my neighborhood were doing yesterday evening - it's hot enough today that I might just do the same. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDkGhAF1mUG5wvzvnJGvz688I_xiZ10VgRWDwzK-Oqo-DRy4-nrfCsrvZl2o3aCPsV6fRFuq91yrV1RymIYvsrhzVP8wSMiLWvK-xbsG0NdGEJnKc4JTUTIHBe2BFM6zDHU-i7qR7BEY4/s1600-h/10cnd_heat.650.1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDkGhAF1mUG5wvzvnJGvz688I_xiZ10VgRWDwzK-Oqo-DRy4-nrfCsrvZl2o3aCPsV6fRFuq91yrV1RymIYvsrhzVP8wSMiLWvK-xbsG0NdGEJnKc4JTUTIHBe2BFM6zDHU-i7qR7BEY4/s320/10cnd_heat.650.1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085651557660073810" /></a>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-60647748663776428082007-07-06T14:40:00.000-05:002007-07-06T14:42:02.683-05:00like a really big iPhone<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5JcSu7h-I40"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5JcSu7h-I40" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />Isn't this amazing?anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-33207398655493533452007-07-05T08:58:00.001-05:002007-07-05T08:58:49.516-05:00<script type='text/javascript' src='http://track3.mybloglog.com/js/jsserv.php?mblID=2007070506260702'></script>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-5601667743377096492007-07-02T14:18:00.000-05:002007-07-03T10:13:21.461-05:00surreal estateCraigslist is a widely known and used social networking site, as well as a place for posting apartment listings, job offers, and junk auctions. As a young New Yorker, I'm always scrolling through the apartment rentals listed, looking for my next leaky abode. And there are certain posts that one just comes to expect whenever s/he searches this section. There are always the obnoxious neon-colored adverts for hip Williamsburg lofts which are actually in not-so-hip Bushwick. There are usually several requests for personal billing information in exchange for "a great deal!", which is of course that deal that involves some idiot giving their identity away for a song and getting nothing but humility in return. And then there are the occasional 'by-owner' posts that go a little something like this one:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">UPPER WEST SIDE PRIVATE BEDROOM/BATH, $200/MONTH</span><br /><br />I'm a successful businessman working and living in Manhattan, but I do a lot of traveling. When I am in New York, I live alone in my luxury two-bedroom apartment on West End Avenue and 79th Street. I am looking for a college-aged female roommate who would receive deeply discounted rent in exchange for keeping me company on the rare nights that I am in the city. You would have your own bedroom and bathroom, and all of the utilities would be covered. Chef's kitchen and roof access added bonus. Close to major subway/bus lines.<br /><br />Please respond with a photo and some information about yourself. <br /><br />Females only need respond. </span><br /><br />I copied and pasted that one into a word document a week or so ago. Whenever I come across one of these posts, I am both skeptical and depressed. What woman is desperate enough to answer to such a sleazy proposition? I'm not trying to be naive - I realize it probably happens all the time, and works in whatever sick fashion. But still... <br /><br />I also couldn't help noticing that these posts were always (allegedly) wealthy men speaking to women of a certain age (18-30). <br /><br />In response, out of curiosity, I proceeded with my own social experimental post. I used the above posting verbatim, except I changed it so that it was a "successful businesswoman" seeking a "college-aged male roommate". Males only need respond. I expected to receive angered responses or even be flagged as an inappropriate post and be removed from the website. I didn't anticipate the actual end result.<br /><br />I opened a Hotmail account for the purpose of the posting, and did not check it until two days in. When I did, I discovered over three-hundred responses to my real estate listing. Just over forty-eight hours, and three-hundred-and-sixty-seven emails in return. I did not read all of them, but I gathered this much:<br /><br />-At least a couple hundred men in the tristate area were super excited for this post, perhaps have been waiting for something like this for years and years. And boy howdy, do they have photos... I quit downloading the pictures after the first ten or so emails for fear of what I'd find.<br />-Several women responded, pissed off at my clear disregard for the entire feminist movement. (one writes, "How dare women like you even exist, go jump off a bridge PLEASE.")<br />-At least twenty females wrote who wanted to persuade me to accept female company to replace that of a male.<br />-One Craigslist Admistrator wrote to ask me to "please clarify" my listing and re-post it.<br /><br />As far as I could see, there were no angry emails from men feeling objectified. <br /><br /><br />I guess people are much more desperate for a great apartment in New York than I thought.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-10219648419013014402007-07-01T16:00:00.000-05:002007-07-01T16:14:09.814-05:00and the feature length pixar film is not far on the horizonI loved the Coca Cola Happiness Factory spot just as much as the next person. But how does one put a price on overkill? <br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y-NhWUoejDk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y-NhWUoejDk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />(thanks, Adcentered.com)anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-21689683987417486122007-06-29T15:32:00.000-05:002007-06-29T16:34:24.474-05:00the weekend: so close, and yet so farSo I have to stay two hours late on this here Friday evening to be part of a strategy meeting with the account interns on a pharmaceutical product.<br /><br /><br />And this great ad comes to mind (click for detail): <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnwhYfOw1Y4ZUAXSdG50WQcQqHLTKBzJNzr05pBmFSDo_w52WDboo-1RYmZRhNY1EVNLmTODGptvrYr6_BD_3MLtjWr4U2MyNWz2_fhh6Ej4KuZB3pvlU7TuRlobjUUjFK93nmezXIt0/s1600-h/n504821642_8546_6983.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnwhYfOw1Y4ZUAXSdG50WQcQqHLTKBzJNzr05pBmFSDo_w52WDboo-1RYmZRhNY1EVNLmTODGptvrYr6_BD_3MLtjWr4U2MyNWz2_fhh6Ej4KuZB3pvlU7TuRlobjUUjFK93nmezXIt0/s320/n504821642_8546_6983.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081592530097512258" /></a>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-10339742215918976432007-06-28T08:10:00.000-05:002007-06-28T08:18:49.803-05:00I was looking through an old issue of Archive on the subway this morning, and the elderly woman sitting next to me was reading over my shoulder. <br /><br />"Are those ALL ads?"<br /><br />"Yes."<br /><br />"But... why would anyone want a magazine that was ALL ads?"<br /><br />And I just had to laugh because I had no other answer to that question. <br />Insanity? Birth defect? Severe self-loathing? Employed in the industry?anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-87339229982081249112007-06-27T17:10:00.000-05:002007-06-27T22:13:59.815-05:00how the Facebook grievesSomeone I knew in elementary school recently passed away at the age of twenty-two. <br /><br />In memory, four-hundred and seven of his closest friends have joined a Facebook group commemorating his life. There are wall postings that say things like "I'll miss ya, bud."<br /><br />I've been trying to express my thoughts about this online trend without sounding incredibly insensitive. I was invited to join this Facebook group despite the fact that I have not been in contact with the deceased since first grade, and even then all we did was eat glue and crayons together. I do not mean to imply that I do not view his death as a tragedy. But a Facebook group feels like such a poor choice for respecting the deceased. In looking through the site, I did not find it difficult to locate hundreds of other pages in memory of college students who have died since joining Facebook. All the same format --- photos from proms, notes directed to the person on the 'wall', links to their Facebook profiles and to funeral home online guest books. And then, right next to the group description, a list of most popular alternate groups for the roster of members - "Vote Barack, 2008!" and "MTV Spring Break'ers" and "Hottest Girls on Facebook (invitation only!)". It just feels wrong.<br />So I declined the invitation to the group. <br /><br />The only real-life comparison I can think of is to suggest holding a mingle with singles event in a funeral parlor (not that it probably hasn't been done before). This isn't normal because one is taught to respect the sacredness of dying, along with the process of mourning and the support given to family and close friends. And yet, Facebook is a social networking website, used primarily for frivolous reasons (myself not exempt, having 'friended' the entire cast of The Office). Am I just being close-minded, rejecting the Wave of the Future? I had someone point out to me that online memorials have been around long before Facebook, and that it is a simple way to reach as many people as possible in the wake of tragedy. But the point of most of those other facebook groups are to let your "friends" on the site know that you're funny, cute, smart, concerned for Darfur, whatever. So these memorials are, what? - an attempt to garner attention or sympathy because someone you sort of knew once upon a bad date has passed away? To me, it seems like the antithesis of paying respects...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfimUvalKkhVq3XSRWhHTL8acYN6nh1win3p9FJ7LtfUicXXeCNXvGvmk4TTgNCz1lkH7zcTjElenT50uxqwzoDtYo-5Vu9C8AsP6Xxn92gZY7ak-S5go84iQ5z8ahWFJL4QHAs4D7pk/s1600-h/facebook_logo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfimUvalKkhVq3XSRWhHTL8acYN6nh1win3p9FJ7LtfUicXXeCNXvGvmk4TTgNCz1lkH7zcTjElenT50uxqwzoDtYo-5Vu9C8AsP6Xxn92gZY7ak-S5go84iQ5z8ahWFJL4QHAs4D7pk/s320/facebook_logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080853022628486962" /></a><br /><br><br /><br><br /><br><br />Name: A Group in memory of Brady H.!!<br />Type: Student Groups - General<br />Description: In loving memory of Brady! We will miss him!! This group is for anyone who would like to say something about him!<br /><br />Related Groups:<br /><br />I hate the UNIVERSITY CENTER!<br />I went to high school with Bobby James<br />Warsaw Community High School c/o '06<br />The Warsaw Bubble<br />THE BIG FULK NASTY!!!<br />Pray for Andrew Klatt<br /><br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Delicately worded thoughts? I'm curious.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-38551109409791935832007-06-27T14:11:00.001-05:002007-06-27T14:47:04.248-05:00So part of being an intern involves Learning Lunches, which take place once a week. At said lunches, interns gather to eat ham and cheese McCanwiches (no kidding) and watch power point presentations on different ad topics. Today's was Account Management and You (again with the not kidding). I learned that the best part of Account Management and Me is that learning about it can be written off as a working lunch and one can (hypothetically) get paid to spend an hour doodling stick figures commiting various forms of self-mutilation in the margins of her notebook.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-63684752848492432542007-06-26T16:30:00.000-05:002007-06-26T16:38:40.882-05:00the funny part is how it isn't a joke.<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118247444843644288.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">"People who understand branding know that when you pick the right name, you're giving your child a head start."<br /><br /></a>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-959174284467472852007-06-26T11:12:00.000-05:002007-06-28T11:19:09.384-05:00Dear Advertising, please quit making that stupid face.Once upon a time there was a little idea that was awesome and everyone liked it except for this one paunchy middle-aged guy named Fred who chewed on his pencil for hours at a time. Fred's entire existence was created for five minutes on last Friday in which he was gifted the opportunity to look at the little smart idea and say "Um, I'm not sure. It seems a little too... edgy." and Fred says this sentence just as if he has said "It seems a little too urine-y." This was the point where I almost accidentally stapled the brief to Fred's forehead.<br /><br />And it was so hot this morning I could smell the garbage fermenting outside. <br /><br />But at least <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/movies/26crui.html">this</a> happened.<br /><br />Somebody is getting their comeuppance, even if it isn't Fred.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-8884499931270597102007-06-25T14:41:00.000-05:002007-06-25T14:42:19.154-05:00Technorati<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/h2k3vjk8b2" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-55824001038189539662007-06-25T08:22:00.001-05:002007-06-26T17:06:12.558-05:00FidoSaw Fido at East Village Cinema last night - one of the newest in a recent string of zombie satire films. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Mo6C6up1Qo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Mo6C6up1Qo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />I've been at the office so often these past few weeks, I basically forgot how important outside cultural stimulation is. This movie was genius, and a welcome herald back to my former New York lifestyle. I have always loved this city for the variety of art readily available (having grown up in the black hole of the deep South, deprived of anything depicting emotion). And during the school year, despite classes and nannying, I'd always found time for movies like this or museum exhibitions (Mythical Creatures at The Museum of Natural History this month!) or various and sundry concerts or readings. But since McCann started three weeks ago, I sort of threw myself into that and forgot about what weekends are for - what all of that stimulation is for. Which, considering my career of choice, seems like kind of a dumb thing to forget. <br /><br />And here it is, another Monday morning and the interns are (as usual) the only people in the office this early. But I feel better prepared and more creative than I can remember feeling the past two Mondays. Maybe I ought to start putting movies down on my time sheet... <br /><br />Boss Man just got in, I'm going to go see how the client meeting on Friday went. And then I'm going to proceed to bang my head against the desk until another idea falls out.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-24765945142420128732007-06-19T14:54:00.000-05:002007-06-25T11:19:18.558-05:00So I had this cute little idea that I was going to regularly update an ad industry-centric blog during my summer internship here at McCann.<br /><br />Except it turns out that having a "real job" means giving up on cute little ideas that do not involve where to spend your thirty minute lunch break or how to get Work Crush to make eye contact with you. And even those ideas are limited by the amount of actual work you are required to focus on. <br /><br />But I promise I'm going to try harder, honest.<br /><br />I've been sticking pens in my ears, going totally insane over learning new technologies for the past couple of days. McCann recently won all of Verizon, not just the wireless network. So they've hired boocoodles of freelancers and are schlepping off the extra stuff on the interns. Not that I'm complaining - I've never been so hip to fiber optic technology before. I had to consult my teenaged brother on the 'awesome' factor of Fios versus normal cable. Apparently, according to Matthew, Verizon Fios "basically kills all the other companies because it's so much more hardcore", but I don't think this is going to be included in the pitch. Still. Thanks younger brothers everywhere. You sell it. <br /><br />In non-mccann related activities, I've recently started babysitting in the evenings for the two-year-old child of a supermodel from Germany. She used to just do high fashion runway stuff, but now that she's getting on in years (the old, old age of twenty-eight) she mostly does Gap ads. I usually get to her apartment covered in the stench of Eau'de'Cubicle and wearing my subway-at-rush-hour grimace. She, of course, looks like she just walked off the airbrushed pages of an article outlining how to look like you just walked off an airbrushed page. In conclusion, my self-esteem has been reduced to seventh grade girlism, but I'm making good money trying to read The Cat in The Hat in German to a child who refuses to eat anything but strawberries.anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-55147951723173385092007-05-25T00:49:00.000-05:002007-06-26T17:03:36.644-05:00<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" allownetworking="internal" height="13" width="13"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"><param name="FlashVars" value="resourceID=46393771&flp=true"> <param name="movie" value="http://static.last.fm/webclient/inline/1/inlinePlayer.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"><embed wmode="transparent" src="http://static.last.fm/webclient/inline/1/inlinePlayer.swf" quality="high" flashvars="resourceID=46393771&flp=true" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="inlinePlayer" allownetworking="internal" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="13" width="13"></embed> </object> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/music/Nouvelle+Vague">Nouvelle Vague</a> – <a href="http://www.blogger.com/music/Nouvelle+Vague/_/Dancing+With+Myself">Dancing With Myself</a><br /><br />So McCann sent their welcome package for the internship program today. And my barefooted bedheaded self was simply not prepared for all of this paperwork. Taxes, schmaxes. I'm SO over being a grown-up.<br /><br />I've been researching their (vast) campaigns for the upcoming job, which starts on June 5th. Did you guys know that Billy Crudup (of "Big Fish" and "Jesus' Son" fame) does the voice overs for the MasterCard campaign? Because I didn't. It seems a bit strange, because he is just famous enough so that most movie-going people know who he is, but not nearly distinctive enough for people to recognize him by his voice alone. Why wouldn't they just get a random voice guy? Why the art film prince? Better question --- why did he accept? Passion for charge cards? Wanted to nix an old line of bad credit?<br /><br />Anyway, I'm home in Georgia for the next few days, and then back to my beautiful leaky Brooklyn apartment and the start of this next endeavor in advertising. It's lame how psyched I am, considering I'll probably just be writing product copy for mailers for the next ten weeks. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">EDIT - I guess this whole process would have been a bit easier if I had just <a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320113179572">won my internship on Ebay.</a></span>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590888917377301993.post-70317204736941741202007-05-23T11:26:00.000-05:002007-06-29T14:02:21.388-05:00My personal blog (is that an oxymoron?) has garnered too much attention from my ... industry friends (also an oxymoron?) in the past several months, so I've decided to create False Advertising. The hope is to lure them away from that sweaty hovel of angst and lame self portraiture to here --- another brand spanking new ad-geared web journal. More importantly (and slightly more seriously), the hope is to provide ample documentation of life as a New York City based intern and student in the big wide world of advertising, and to share and contrast view points from this end to that of others.<br /><br />How about we begin at the beginning? This video I linked from the Strawberry Frog blog on Creativity is as good of a place as any to start. Do sit tight and watch the whole thing. He says everything I'd like to say on the topic, but he says it smarter, and with a better accent.<br /><br /><!--cut and paste--><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="320" height="285" id="VE_Player" align="middle"><param name="movie" value="http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/SIRKENROBINSON_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="wmode" value="window"><embed src="http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf" flashvars="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/SIRKENROBINSON_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" wmode="window" width="320" height="285" name="VE_Player" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object>anna katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831556907343333912noreply@blogger.com0