Er - Yuk

The other day I left my trackie bottoms draped over the end of the bed. When I came to bed Pinot was VERY interested in them.

'Hmm,' I thought, 'I must have run past something interesting and now my trousers smell interesting.'

She was really going for it. Biting, hanging off them with her claws, scrabbling at them etc etc.

Anyway, I put them a bit higher up and we all went to sleep.

Then yesterday I put them on. I could feel something sticking into me. Inside the right trouser leg. Around about my knee.

I reached down and pulled out a weta.

Let me introduce you to the weta again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta#Tree_weta

On brand?

One of the projects I am working on at work is the redesign of our car livery. The pretty pictures that make our cars look like cars that belong to the company I work for. So while being a marketer makes me generally interested in whether something visual fits with what I think the company represents, I'm particularly inerested in cars at the moment.

Twice this week on my way to work I have driven behind a car that belongs to a company called Vixen. Now I was not familiar with the products and or services of this company but there were some clues on the car.

1. Vixen as a name is suggestive but www.vixen.co.nz is immediatly a flashing sign for a site with some kind of 'adult' content.
2. The surround on the personalised plate said, "Over 18? Visit our site"
3. And there was a larger than life, barely legal section of a woman's scantily, but racily, clad body.
So without even going to the site, it's clear that this is some kind of adult entertainment, I was guessing an online store for sex toys.

I was right. However, if you feel you need to check, you have a reasonable excuse should your partner/flatmate/mum catch you.

So reasonably 'on brand' right? Without knowing what they actually offered, with the combo of the surround, name and imagery I took a stab and got it right.

So what's the point?

Well, the first time there was something that made me do a double take. Something that made it not quite... credible.

The car had the visual elements all in line with its offering,

But it was a people carrier. A family wagon. Mum's Taxi.

There's. Something. Just. Not. Quite. Right. About it.

ClaireFund

My flattie Claire K works for TearFund which does raises money to help in the developing world, This includes child sponsorship. So we were almost obliged to make this video for here 30th bday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cH34YAVOXg

And then there were the outtakes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH-X7uT4qWI&mode=related&search

Parallel parking

There is lots of free parking around my office. In the interest of geting the one closest to the building I have become VERY good at parallel parking.

But even I was impressed when I managed to wedge myself so tightly between two cars that I was touching at both bumpers. Luckily I recognised the car at the rear. In a bit of a panic I called Nicole (who I work with) to ask her to come down and move her car so that I wasn't quite so tightly wedged.

Nicole came down alright. But onlyonce she had grabbed the digital camera and told the ENTIRE marketing team to look out the window at me and my car.

No idea how I managed to get in there. None.