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about cakes, toiletts and multi-tasking
where do i start? this weekend has been weird and crazy.
after the presentation to vw, the atmosphere was finally relaxed again after everybody had been working and stressing so much. we actually got more than 2 hours of sleep. so, basically it was time to party again.
even though, alex and i had to submit our quarter away choices, we successfully postponed it to yesterday. the weekend was free time, no worrying about next quarter.
it all started out on friday. alex and i were asked by sebastian and nanni to be the photographers for the Mercedes New Years Party. the location was pretty cool and packed. nearly everybody of the mercedes crowd was there. we knew a few of the german interns already, alex even better than me, but there were also hundreds of chinese employees. after a few speeches held by the board (awfully poor english on the german side) and some more or less funny videos about the different departments, it was time for a round of 'who wants to be a millionaire'. and here starts the embarrassment.
fucking hell. they hid stickers under the seats and whoever was sitting on such a chair had to be the contestant. great technique! and who was the lucky one??? me!
i really tried to maneuver myself out of it, by smiling but vehemently shaking my head. and who thought we germans were stubborn? the fight was lost before it began. i was standing there like the last idiot on the planet still shaking my head like i had Parkinson's.
i might would have had a chance if it were questions about everything else but the chinese company history of mercedes. but, hey, of course it was about numbers, locations and other sort of really interesting facts of MBC.
i was standing on the stage in front of these mercedes people with no fucking clue where the last trainee camp was build, shanghai or beijing, how many spear-parts they had sold in 2006 or whether their employees were taught how to manage angry customers.. haha, so being the foreign looser was great. at least i got a nice mercedes jacket, made in china, which means that after opening the first button it just cracked and now my wonderful mercedes jacket doesn't close anymore. damn!
after that episode, i took advantage of the free alcohol.
alex was still shooting his way through the slowly but constantly more drunken people, while i did my best to get where most of the chinese already were. but the most gruesome things were yet to come. the buffet!
the chinese seem to take a rather intense interest in buffets. you have never seen a more skilled people in shoving up food on a small plate. it was amazing to watch. while some created true masterpieces of something that at some point looked like modern art others just stayed where they were put. in front of their favorite food. and, no, they wouldn't leave. just standing there, eating from the plate in front of them, while a big cue was building up behind them. but the chinese have nerves. they don't give a fuck about anyone thats not related to them. so, i just got a few sushi and the hell out of there.
the event had started at 2 and now by 8 i was wondering how long it would last. but that question answered itself pretty quickly. 2 secs after the big lucky draw, where nearly everybody got a price, ALL of the chinese where gone. i had just gotten myself a new white wine and when i turned around, the place that before had been crowded with happy looking chinese was empty. the only thing left was a few german interns and the board members. due to alcohol and a youth in the 80s they soon started to shake everything they got to nena.
sebastian and alex and i were passively standing and watching with our glasses. we decided it was time to change locations.
picking up our jackets we collected three mercedes cakes. they didn't make it long. sebastian, cold-heartedly, threw two of them out of alex apartment. mine is still sitting on the fridge next to my new mercedes s class model-car.
anyhow, we ended up at kai's again, where someone was getting so pissed that he was 'multitasking' around and we fought over the fact who would get a round of drinks. after i had a nice encounter with kai's toilette, voted the worst toilette in whole beijing, we decided to move on. suzi wongs was the next stop. i dunno what happened, but alex was suddenly gone and sebastian and i kept up the legacy by staying there till 6 or something. pissed as shit. but in beijing u don't need to worry about anything. you ll always get home. u just get the next of the 70, 000 taxis and pay ur 1.10 euro. so, somehow i ended up home and went to go shopping. the sun was shining and it was warm, which happened to be great, since alex had left with my jacket.
so, i got my yoghurt and water and went home. i could still see the left overs of the cake sebastian had thrown out earlier. but i just had to sleep.
the rest of saturday is another story, alex got more to tell about that.
but guys, what's that stuff about the milk; i don't get it.
after the presentation to vw, the atmosphere was finally relaxed again after everybody had been working and stressing so much. we actually got more than 2 hours of sleep. so, basically it was time to party again.
even though, alex and i had to submit our quarter away choices, we successfully postponed it to yesterday. the weekend was free time, no worrying about next quarter.
it all started out on friday. alex and i were asked by sebastian and nanni to be the photographers for the Mercedes New Years Party. the location was pretty cool and packed. nearly everybody of the mercedes crowd was there. we knew a few of the german interns already, alex even better than me, but there were also hundreds of chinese employees. after a few speeches held by the board (awfully poor english on the german side) and some more or less funny videos about the different departments, it was time for a round of 'who wants to be a millionaire'. and here starts the embarrassment.
fucking hell. they hid stickers under the seats and whoever was sitting on such a chair had to be the contestant. great technique! and who was the lucky one??? me!
i really tried to maneuver myself out of it, by smiling but vehemently shaking my head. and who thought we germans were stubborn? the fight was lost before it began. i was standing there like the last idiot on the planet still shaking my head like i had Parkinson's.
i might would have had a chance if it were questions about everything else but the chinese company history of mercedes. but, hey, of course it was about numbers, locations and other sort of really interesting facts of MBC.
i was standing on the stage in front of these mercedes people with no fucking clue where the last trainee camp was build, shanghai or beijing, how many spear-parts they had sold in 2006 or whether their employees were taught how to manage angry customers.. haha, so being the foreign looser was great. at least i got a nice mercedes jacket, made in china, which means that after opening the first button it just cracked and now my wonderful mercedes jacket doesn't close anymore. damn!
after that episode, i took advantage of the free alcohol.
alex was still shooting his way through the slowly but constantly more drunken people, while i did my best to get where most of the chinese already were. but the most gruesome things were yet to come. the buffet!
the chinese seem to take a rather intense interest in buffets. you have never seen a more skilled people in shoving up food on a small plate. it was amazing to watch. while some created true masterpieces of something that at some point looked like modern art others just stayed where they were put. in front of their favorite food. and, no, they wouldn't leave. just standing there, eating from the plate in front of them, while a big cue was building up behind them. but the chinese have nerves. they don't give a fuck about anyone thats not related to them. so, i just got a few sushi and the hell out of there.
the event had started at 2 and now by 8 i was wondering how long it would last. but that question answered itself pretty quickly. 2 secs after the big lucky draw, where nearly everybody got a price, ALL of the chinese where gone. i had just gotten myself a new white wine and when i turned around, the place that before had been crowded with happy looking chinese was empty. the only thing left was a few german interns and the board members. due to alcohol and a youth in the 80s they soon started to shake everything they got to nena.
sebastian and alex and i were passively standing and watching with our glasses. we decided it was time to change locations.
picking up our jackets we collected three mercedes cakes. they didn't make it long. sebastian, cold-heartedly, threw two of them out of alex apartment. mine is still sitting on the fridge next to my new mercedes s class model-car.
anyhow, we ended up at kai's again, where someone was getting so pissed that he was 'multitasking' around and we fought over the fact who would get a round of drinks. after i had a nice encounter with kai's toilette, voted the worst toilette in whole beijing, we decided to move on. suzi wongs was the next stop. i dunno what happened, but alex was suddenly gone and sebastian and i kept up the legacy by staying there till 6 or something. pissed as shit. but in beijing u don't need to worry about anything. you ll always get home. u just get the next of the 70, 000 taxis and pay ur 1.10 euro. so, somehow i ended up home and went to go shopping. the sun was shining and it was warm, which happened to be great, since alex had left with my jacket.
so, i got my yoghurt and water and went home. i could still see the left overs of the cake sebastian had thrown out earlier. but i just had to sleep.
the rest of saturday is another story, alex got more to tell about that.
but guys, what's that stuff about the milk; i don't get it.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
GOT MILK?
So you Brussel guys are really interested in the milk situation here. I don´t know which sick insights you want to find out but I try to help. To get to the insight you have to go to the inside of my fridge first. The left milk is preserved milk and the right one is fresh (...well it was). About the taste. They are a little artificial but the fresh milk comes one step closer to the milk I like. It is definitely OK. Unfortunately I can´t give you the chinese brand names but that´s why I took this picture, nice isn´t it?
Friday, February 9, 2007
And now look for the idea.....
hey guys, as u can see, we did our first final executions and even presented them to the vw-client. quite exciting.
now, we are working on the touareg and the sagitar. looks like we are doomed to work for vw. but hey, we love it.
to most of you, the idea behind our ads might not be visible due to the fact that you probably don't speak chinese, and to be honest, to translate you the copy would be really exhausting...ohhhhh, soooo complex our idea is, harr, harr.
but, if you wanna see ads with ideas, and i mean apparent ideas, go to www.robinstam.blogspot.com. there's some hot stuff you wont wanna miss.
today, alex and i are going to an Mercedes event in the largest Holiday Inn Hotel in the world, here in the middle of Beijing.
Let's see whats gonna happen. Auf jeden Fall gibts ein paar Happen! Caro is funny. Und total irre.
Anyway, from the 17th on, we are gonna have New Years Holidays for about 10 days. My mom is coming and finally i am gonna see some of China and to do that with her is gonna be great.
So, alex and i have to work now...looking for photographers. big job.
now, we are working on the touareg and the sagitar. looks like we are doomed to work for vw. but hey, we love it.
to most of you, the idea behind our ads might not be visible due to the fact that you probably don't speak chinese, and to be honest, to translate you the copy would be really exhausting...ohhhhh, soooo complex our idea is, harr, harr.
but, if you wanna see ads with ideas, and i mean apparent ideas, go to www.robinstam.blogspot.com. there's some hot stuff you wont wanna miss.
today, alex and i are going to an Mercedes event in the largest Holiday Inn Hotel in the world, here in the middle of Beijing.
Let's see whats gonna happen. Auf jeden Fall gibts ein paar Happen! Caro is funny. Und total irre.
Anyway, from the 17th on, we are gonna have New Years Holidays for about 10 days. My mom is coming and finally i am gonna see some of China and to do that with her is gonna be great.
So, alex and i have to work now...looking for photographers. big job.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Ich bin ein Designstar, holt mich hier raus!
Hi Robin, just in case if you read this. What do you think about the copy of our ads? www.robinstam.blogspot.com Greetz to Brussels!
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
I don´t have anything to add...except that the weekend nights were fun as well. I met people from Tasmania, England, Germany, Holland, China, Denmark and Russia - Wow. Nice. And with everyone you have to "gan bei" (skoal), so I decimated my braincells to a minimum...At least I still know how breathing works but I have to hold my breath while writing. Well, I post some pics instead.
Good Morning BEIJIIIIIIING
actually i was gonna post some pics today, but i forgot to bring them to the 'place of the holy internet'---the office. mmmhh, damn. anyway, i ll try to get them online tomorrow. yesterday was a great day, alex and i didnt wake up at 5, but at 3 instead, so basically the day was still to come and ours. we took the cab to the Bahai Park and as we were driving through Gongnentijungchan Beilu i was already discovering the Beijing i had been looking for. it was still very commercial but the whole feel of the streets and places was more hutong than business.
i think the city is gearing up for chinese new year, there are red lampions everywhere. at night the red shinny dots look amazing and even though they are hanging next to neon-lights, advertising thai foot massages, it looks somewhat ancient.
anyway, the Bahai Park is wonderful. its located north-west of the vorbidden palace and in its middle is a small lake. since the lake was frozen many people were ice-skating on it. however, truth to be told, i m not sure if this lake had more than 5 deadly mm 'icing' on the surface....thats what i call 'preventing overpopulation'.
we were watching them through the window of one of our new fav restaurants...i forgot the name, but whatever. the food was great, but if any of u would have seen us order there or any other place in beijing, u'd call us crazy. here u don't just order one dish and then its urs to eat. in china everyone eats everything. whats on the table is for the whole communist bunch...seriously, sometimes its pretty unnerving: u order rice with vegtables and u ar soooo loking forward to eat them, but as soon as it arrives at ur table, 5 pairs of chopsticks are already heaving 'your' food on different plates. mmmmmhhhhhhh, so what u do is, u order more than one dish, just to make shure u aso get some of the good stuff. and in my case, since i have the bad luck to always order the wrong thing, i just order many different things to decrease the chances of getting the shitty stuff.
so, to come to the point, yesterday we ordered about 7 dishes. one was the chinese adaption of apfelstrudel, very yummy.
and since yesterday was special, we even odered a 'milk te' instead of the usual coke. alex got a honey melon tea, and bei gott thats how it tasted.
well, now we are back in the agency having fun with the fish and the lumalife technology. haha, ok, i need to concentrate and finish my mc donalds coffee.
i think the city is gearing up for chinese new year, there are red lampions everywhere. at night the red shinny dots look amazing and even though they are hanging next to neon-lights, advertising thai foot massages, it looks somewhat ancient.
anyway, the Bahai Park is wonderful. its located north-west of the vorbidden palace and in its middle is a small lake. since the lake was frozen many people were ice-skating on it. however, truth to be told, i m not sure if this lake had more than 5 deadly mm 'icing' on the surface....thats what i call 'preventing overpopulation'.
we were watching them through the window of one of our new fav restaurants...i forgot the name, but whatever. the food was great, but if any of u would have seen us order there or any other place in beijing, u'd call us crazy. here u don't just order one dish and then its urs to eat. in china everyone eats everything. whats on the table is for the whole communist bunch...seriously, sometimes its pretty unnerving: u order rice with vegtables and u ar soooo loking forward to eat them, but as soon as it arrives at ur table, 5 pairs of chopsticks are already heaving 'your' food on different plates. mmmmmhhhhhhh, so what u do is, u order more than one dish, just to make shure u aso get some of the good stuff. and in my case, since i have the bad luck to always order the wrong thing, i just order many different things to decrease the chances of getting the shitty stuff.
so, to come to the point, yesterday we ordered about 7 dishes. one was the chinese adaption of apfelstrudel, very yummy.
and since yesterday was special, we even odered a 'milk te' instead of the usual coke. alex got a honey melon tea, and bei gott thats how it tasted.
well, now we are back in the agency having fun with the fish and the lumalife technology. haha, ok, i need to concentrate and finish my mc donalds coffee.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
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seems like you will see some pictures...
ok, we lied. actually we work at a dentist and have no clue what this advertising stuff is about - now you know it
work hard, party harder
that in fact is alex and mine new motto. last week has been exhausting. even though the pitch has been postponed over and over again, the pressure was keept up by simply not telling us. ;) well, it was worth it, by saturday we were finished with our layouts, even i...haha. and now we are working on vw, which is great, because the tonality is much more western, no more dragons and frogs and what not.
gael, our cd, just resigned and is off to singapore or someting. which leaves us with the all-chinese creative team..mmmhhh, so, there we go again: frogs and dragons.
saturday, however, was the night. we went out with sebastian, the german account planner and went to a club called kais. MY NEW FAVORITE CLUB IN THE WORLD. seriously, after being in all these mallorca clubs with chinese flair and hookers, it is wonderful to find a club that looks like crap and all the people dance because they like the music, not the guy next to them. Furthermore, the wodka redbull costs 1 euro, so thats convincing as well. there were many expats, so that was a nice change. not only chinese girls and guys. so, alex and i had great fun. man, i love that club and wodka redbull. haha, anyway, we went on to the suzi wongs, 80's LA. Honestly, i didnt really noticed anything anymore....i just sorted all the business cards we got on the way.
i think i m getting robins attitude, work during the week and go out hardcore on the weekend. every weekened!
so, now i will go and get some coffee.
gael, our cd, just resigned and is off to singapore or someting. which leaves us with the all-chinese creative team..mmmhhh, so, there we go again: frogs and dragons.
saturday, however, was the night. we went out with sebastian, the german account planner and went to a club called kais. MY NEW FAVORITE CLUB IN THE WORLD. seriously, after being in all these mallorca clubs with chinese flair and hookers, it is wonderful to find a club that looks like crap and all the people dance because they like the music, not the guy next to them. Furthermore, the wodka redbull costs 1 euro, so thats convincing as well. there were many expats, so that was a nice change. not only chinese girls and guys. so, alex and i had great fun. man, i love that club and wodka redbull. haha, anyway, we went on to the suzi wongs, 80's LA. Honestly, i didnt really noticed anything anymore....i just sorted all the business cards we got on the way.
i think i m getting robins attitude, work during the week and go out hardcore on the weekend. every weekened!
so, now i will go and get some coffee.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Buy more plasmascreens for africa!
so, here we are again.
first i have to say: I hate the chinese internet!!!!!! it takes me 10 min to upload flickr, not to mention the total disability to upload pics on this blog. some shitty earthquake in tailand has "destroyed" the chinese internet, maybe it was simply the government, who knows. i have tons of pics already i would love to share, but maybe i should describe them instead...?! ;)
anyway, working on the final pitch here at dmg is opening my eyes concerning the possibility of just IGNORING budget completely. HA! i'm loving it. they are creating the most extraorinary techniques to re-launch the brand with new ads/tvc/events, etc. in real life this would cost the company millions, billions and gold barrels. as if the new lead car is not flashy enough.
now, people from the shanghai office are coming in to support the dmg force. haha, and alex and i right in the middle, thinking about giant winding flatscreens that communicate the concept. Its great to be free of limits and simply play around with ideas without killing them because of budget issues. we could probably feed 3/4 of africa with the money we need to built our pop up events. its advertising-made in china.
now, its time to go for lunch and alex and i are wondering if we want noodle soup or noodle soup. mmmmmhhhh.
the food here is great by the way. u can pay standart european prices or go with local fares. the food is about the same, maybe u pay for hygene but who cares, as long as u dont get sick.
even if i have wrote it before: A SIX PACK CORONA COSTS 85 CENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
so, go die of envy. ;)
first i have to say: I hate the chinese internet!!!!!! it takes me 10 min to upload flickr, not to mention the total disability to upload pics on this blog. some shitty earthquake in tailand has "destroyed" the chinese internet, maybe it was simply the government, who knows. i have tons of pics already i would love to share, but maybe i should describe them instead...?! ;)
anyway, working on the final pitch here at dmg is opening my eyes concerning the possibility of just IGNORING budget completely. HA! i'm loving it. they are creating the most extraorinary techniques to re-launch the brand with new ads/tvc/events, etc. in real life this would cost the company millions, billions and gold barrels. as if the new lead car is not flashy enough.
now, people from the shanghai office are coming in to support the dmg force. haha, and alex and i right in the middle, thinking about giant winding flatscreens that communicate the concept. Its great to be free of limits and simply play around with ideas without killing them because of budget issues. we could probably feed 3/4 of africa with the money we need to built our pop up events. its advertising-made in china.
now, its time to go for lunch and alex and i are wondering if we want noodle soup or noodle soup. mmmmmhhhh.
the food here is great by the way. u can pay standart european prices or go with local fares. the food is about the same, maybe u pay for hygene but who cares, as long as u dont get sick.
even if i have wrote it before: A SIX PACK CORONA COSTS 85 CENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
so, go die of envy. ;)
Unexplored species vanished in my soupbowl, wonderful!
as the internet still doesn´t work properly i convinced myself to write a little....instead of showing you the wonderful and probably award winning photos we made :-( So many people ask me about the food situation. Well it really depends how brave or open you are and how much money you want to spend. A few days ago we crashed into a japanese place with a sushi buffet - 12 Euro (incl. drinks for both of us). Hotels are relatively expensive, we paid 30 Euro for our meal. you´ll get everything from "bavarian pretzels with paulaner" to "feet of some animals you can´t pronounce". The common food is noodle soup with beef, dumplings and vegetables. Of course it is presented differently from the way you might know it. Such a meal costs (including drinks and for two adults) about 50RMB (5Euro). You can get it a lot cheaper but for us that´s kind of the bottom line (and don´t ask me what it takes to find out where this bottom line is to set). *
However, it´s not possible to suffer from hunger - but you quickly suffer from misunderstandings. We met hundreds of chinese people yet but we can count the english speaking on one hand. From those, 4 work in the agency. And don´t come to the idea that taxi drivers know words like left, right, stop.... Well, usually they know what the phrase "bye bye" means and....jej that´s it. So we hardly try to improve our chinese abilities.
At the moment we´re making some popup event designs and thinking hardly about more ideas for the olympics 2008 here. I bet the couriers here make a fortune at the moment because internet isn´t available and pictures have to be sent.
Hey, is there anyone who knows some more good movies??? - we bought so many that we are out of ideas.
* brrrrgh, I still feel this one flavor on my tounge (day 10)
However, it´s not possible to suffer from hunger - but you quickly suffer from misunderstandings. We met hundreds of chinese people yet but we can count the english speaking on one hand. From those, 4 work in the agency. And don´t come to the idea that taxi drivers know words like left, right, stop.... Well, usually they know what the phrase "bye bye" means and....jej that´s it. So we hardly try to improve our chinese abilities.
At the moment we´re making some popup event designs and thinking hardly about more ideas for the olympics 2008 here. I bet the couriers here make a fortune at the moment because internet isn´t available and pictures have to be sent.
Hey, is there anyone who knows some more good movies??? - we bought so many that we are out of ideas.
* brrrrgh, I still feel this one flavor on my tounge (day 10)
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Other Quakes
Unfortunately the internet broke down and that doesn´t mean "our"
internet but the entire "chinese" internet. That´s because of some earthquakes, or seaquakes or other quakes... Anyway the internet is really very slow so that we can´t post the pictures we made yet. Just to update you a little bit with some facts: apartment=clean; creative director=nice; food=yummy; taxi=1euro; vuittons=fake (day 8)
internet but the entire "chinese" internet. That´s because of some earthquakes, or seaquakes or other quakes... Anyway the internet is really very slow so that we can´t post the pictures we made yet. Just to update you a little bit with some facts: apartment=clean; creative director=nice; food=yummy; taxi=1euro; vuittons=fake (day 8)
Monday, January 8, 2007
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