Alex and the boys kings' of the castle again
Two quotes I’d like to highlight:
“Our clients are really brave,” noted Mr. Reilly, co-executive creative director. “There’s a lot of guts out there, and in a bad economy to have this kind of bravery and the foresight to know that this is the kind of environment where it might help to scream a little louder.” Andrew Keller, who is co-executive creative director with Mr. Reilly, said: “A lot of our clients realize that the greatest risk is potentially not taking any risk at all. People don’t have to listen, they don’t have to pay attention anymore.”
I’ve been in advertising for a short while, and I can tell you the client/agency relationship is huge. Getting a client to buy into your crazier ideas is almost as important as the ability to develop the ideas in the first place. No genius escapes the agency doors without client approval first.
There’s a tendency, especially in America, to “root for the underdog until the underdog really starts to win,” said Mr. Steinhour. “When people hate on us … in some ways, we use it as a fuel.” Said Mr. Reilly: “There’s a knock on every agency … and certainly the agencies that are a little more high profile, the Goodby’s, the Wieden’s. What really matters is that the companies we represent are doing better than when we started with them.”
And for all the mud they sling, most critics would still kill for a chance to work with these guys. Felix, a blogger at the Denver Egoist, is a case in point. “Several of their recent ‘big’ ideas were recycled, either from themselves or other work,” he recently wrote, adding. “But I’ll still take a job at CP&B. I’m just mad … not insane.”
This succinctly provides a rationale for the Bogusky-hate.
Kudos to Scott Van Pelt for belittling James’ Crab Dribble. One more reason James will never be better than MJ. Jordan never broke the rules to win.
I’ve recently been having cravings for Paul Reveres’ breadsticks, Whoppers from Burger King, milkshakes through extra long straws, and Penelope Cruz. But more than anything, as of late, I’ve been experiencing trouble with the ladies. I’m your normal proportional American guy, can you please explain my sudden cravings and lack of sustainable romantic relationships?
Thanks,
Starvin…for some lovin.
In DMI.
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[My response]
Dear Starvin…
Your first few cravings are very normal. Regular humans cannot resist anything on that list, as they are all members of the Things I Like To Eat Club. They have only one ingredient: Deliciousness.
Anything in the Things I Like To Eat Club is to be savored and never taken for granted.
As for your second issue, I believe I have a solution for you. Many men become frustrated with the opposite sex, as today’s conventional wisdom leads men to think women want a certain type of mythical man who treats ladies right and isn’t a jerk.
This is America, though – as opposed to England, Australia or Macedonia where some of our readers reside (I kid you not) – you have a distinct advantage. We have the American Dream. Just look at Michael Phelps. All you really need to do – focus your energy into being very good at one thing, and your lady troubles will start to crumble away.
Many girls like guys who are really good at something, whether it be a sport like water polo or a hobby like making millions of dollars so you can swim in your lake of gold coins. Some may call these females jersey-chasers or gold-diggers, but really it is the result of millions of years of evolution (as so many things are).
Instinctually, females are in charge of raising the family. This is not a stereotype or a sexist viewpoint, but rather what the females in the vast majority of species do. The female at the very least will house the offspring for a duration of time, and then raise the offspring up until the point that the offspring is able to survive on its own.
The male can have differing levels of involvement, but at the very least, he will contribute his DNA to the offspring. So, it stands to reason that if you as a female have one guaranteed contribution from your male partner, you want it to be as good a contribution as possible.
Millions of years ago, when little miss primate roamed the earth looking for a mate, who do you think she felt had the better genetics? The primate who wakes up at noon every day, lives on his buddy’s couch and considers a 40oz from the local Kum & Go to be a complete meal – or – the primate who gets up early every morning to work out, eats his bananas three times a day and shows his testicular fortitude by competing against the other non-shmo primates in a television event broadcast to the entire forest?
Look at it from little miss primate’s perspective. When she becomes mama primate, she doesn’t want to deal with a baby primate who sniffs his own farts and asks if its ok to convert the extra downstairs tree branch into an apartment at the age of 25 so he can finally have a little independence. Mama primate is no fool. She wants the baby primate who can peal his own bananas and leaves the tree on his 18th birthday so she can watch primate Oprah in peace as soon as possible. Which papa primate has a better chance of providing primate Oprah sooner?
We can all succeed at some level at some thing. You just have to try. Armed with this knowledge you should have the motivation you need. The harder your work, the greater your skill level will grow, the more success you will achieve, the more little miss primate will say, “I’d like some of his DNA.”
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Well, some scientist somewhere must have seen my hypothesis and gone to town, because a new study from Newcastle University found “Wealthy men give women more orgasms.”
What’s next? “Men prefer young, attractive women with exquisite culinary skill and a penchant for minding the step children.”
So Twitter gets the news out there quickly. But it has unverified voracity. Regular news feeds have verified voracity (allegedly), but slow response time.
Hmmm….
Enter Yahoo’s new Frankenstein search engine: TweetNews. It basically listens to what is happening on Twitter (so the ‘hot’ stories are on top) and then provides links to major news sources. It’s pretty brilliant.
