Anatomy of a Potentially Stupid Decision

1. SEE TOWER

2. SIGN WAIVER

3. SUIT UP

4. JUMP OFF TOWER

5. LAND ON YOUR KNEES

6. THANK JESUS BEFORE PHOTO OP

Wanna do it? Come Here

Architecturally Auckland

Auckland Adventures (part one)

Mile High Jinx

18 hours on a plane with a camera handy....this is what happens.

Almost There.......

CH's first class concentration

JH working the camera angle from his seat.

JM, A "very important businessman"

Sydney Finally Peaks!

Emirates takes us to Auckland in these...

personal Mini Bars at every seat? Really?

Some Dom and a smile makes it all ok.

Watching the take off from our seats..beyond!

The bar has been raised.

I just had a phone conversation here at work and the person I was speaking to said the following:

“Offline folks have been gilding the turd for years in regards to traditional media efficiency”

GILDING THE TURD! ......I laughed to myself then threw up a little in my mouth.

Carry on.....

Some things...

Never change.....

April 2007

December 2007

Holidaze

My christmas social calendar has been in full swing. CR and I threw a bang up party last weekend and invited 100 or so of our favorite people. Almost everyone showed up and put the naughty back in Christmas. I think I averted permanent damamge to my reputation among my peers and colleagues by remaining relatively sober and keeping the host hat on tight.

Sat night I hosted a fantabulous dinner at my house in celebration of CH's 30th Birthday. Turtle soup and bone in pork tenderloin were on the menu as was red velvet cake and embarrsing princess party favors. The food was great, the conversation flowed about as smoothly as the spiked christmas punch we served.

My last, LAST social obligation of the season is the Cajun Christmas dinner were putting on at my house for all our friends from the swamp (and their admirers). I ordered a big ass stuffed Turducken, crawfish stuffing, etoffee and luckily I have KV here now to oversee all the prep. Otherwise I'd make a huge cajun mess in the kitchen.

Some Christmas Visual Stimuli

DC Holiday Party

Our Party @ Fuego

CH's Bday Dinner @ my house

Almost Tonga Time

My trip to the other side of the world is fast approaching and I cant help but to get excited when I come across pictures like this. Minus the coconut crabs and deadly jellyfish im sure to have a bang up time.

Rarotonga, cook Islands

Audiophile

Good tunes:

It's coming around again..

Schwag Hag

Media folk love some schwag...imedia vendors delivered in that department. This is what I came home to last night. Everything from free movies for a month from Fandango to private labeled sunscreen from Reuters. And a big box to put it all in which they will drop ship to your home. It's a new media christmas!

You've Been Buzzed

I love interactive media folks. Whenever we get together in one place, not only is it like a Star Trek convention (speaking our own language) new words to describe what we do float to the surface. When I attend events like the one im at right now, these new buzz words reveal themselves in presentations, discussions and even in written form in program copy. Social Media, UGC (user Generated Content), contextual, and many many more idioms like that have graced the wall of buzz word shame.

So now I reveal the new buzz marketing word of choice for interactive marketers around the world. I expect to start seeing this word on every agency website, in almost every vendor presentation and probably on a few t-shirts somewhere as well. We will use this word until it sickens us to hear it. Like "social networking" or " new media", just hearing this word will cause severe hot flashes, blood to drip from your ear and eye sockets and and an uncontrollable need to throw a random object at a presentor or vendor.

I now present to you........drum roll...............

Marketecture (mar.kuh.TEK.chur) n :The design and structure of a market or a marketing campaign.

Me: "So how can your technology help my clients reach a better online audience."

Vendor: "Well, we'll need to look at your marketecture to determine what the most appropriate course of action will be..." "It's really all about how you've approached your marketecture, what new media strategies your employing and whether or not you're contextually reaching the social networking community in an efficient way"

Me: "Note to self: Remove vendor from my contact list"

Palm Springs Eternal

Love it here. See why....



Low Hanging Grapefruit


Window to the world


where the desert meets the sky


Lush


Framed by Date Palms


Desert Roses


Mi Casita es muy linda!


tangerines in the front yard

Simply Merv-oulous

Despite my travel-weariness, Im loving life right now. Im here. For work.. Go figure.

I just picked an orange from the tree outside my casita and ate it by the fireplace on my bougainvillea covered rooftoop terrace as I looked out across the 360 degree view of the Santa Rosa mountains on a clear blue 60 degree day.

Im gonna eat up these next 5 days like Merv Griffin gobbled up slightly rare steak dianne at his fabulous dinner parties just up the street. Or maybe like Paul Lynde gobbled up ....... in the bathroom (smirk).

A guy sitting across from me on the plane had on an ascot. I knew I was finally headed in the right direction.