February 2010 – Page 2

Off season santa and a trendy chinese kid sitting in a tree.

So this is the scenario. I get on the train with my girlfriend; it was pretty packed. I look over to the other end of the train and see a caucasian male, probably about 6’5″, overweight wearing circular glasses and really, was not too dissimilar to ol’ St Nick. Standing uncomfortably close to him was a 5’4″, chinese kid of, oh, let’s say 16-17 years old, at tops, and i’m stood there thinking to myself; “If this train wasn’t so packed, something would be wrong here – wait…” The kid looks at the man, and then they smile at each other – the kind of smile you give your first girlfriend when you’re still a bit too scared to go over and talk to her in the playground. That’s when I notice their hands. Are they… no, they can’t be holding each other’s ass on the train?! Oh thank God, they’re only holding hands…

What?!

The sexual tension between these two unlawfully different people was becoming unbearable! The suggestive staring, the secret stroking, I kid you not, I was like “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!” It was the kind of horror story you hear about in the papers; a girl meeting a guy on the internet, etc, only in this case the kid looked into it and the old man couldn’t believe his luck! Don’t get me wrong, i’m fine with homosexuality, but this looked like it was one kiss away from a lawsuit and a news report.

However, I could be wrong and they could end up living happily ever after on santas boat just chillin’ right?

It was cold. Very cold. Still sunny though and we went to a good few agencies, all with their own little “thing” that makes them different from each other. The agencies I went to throughout the trip and the main speakers were;

Concept Farm – Griffin
Exposure – Tom
What If! – Gareth
R/GA – Courtney
Cunning – Lara
Naked – Paul
Rapp – Camilo
JWT – Renetta and Andy Clarke

They were all very nice people and I was quite surprised how many English people there were in the agencies (some even from Bucks!). We even randomly met one of the founding four of ZAG on the street outside Concept Farm who gave a few of us an impromptu talk about the industry. Thanks Georgia ;).

Overall it was a good trip, plane there was good, plane back was a fucking nightmare, but you’re reading this so it wasn’t that bad.

Now on with the pics! This isn’t all of them, and they will all look different from each other because I was pissing about in photoshop.

I have to start with this one because it’s by far the most globally relevant, the rest are just holiday snaps whereas this is porn frozen into the middle of Central Park’s lake – epic. The next one is of a taxi on fire… sort of.