Archive for March, 2007
This is version two of the blog, which currently contains 133 published posts. To some extent, this blog represents the creative excesses of a design enthusiast who is somewhere in the process of applying to grad school, working at a law firm and resides in the Financial District of New York City.
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So, I was working on a semester-long advertising group project last Fall with a group of three other people. We were doing a project on Orkin, yes, the pest control company. Anyway, we did a bunch of research and stuff to come up with a “Master Idea” for the company and presented it along with out research and the slideshow (which I made) to our professor, some b-school marketing people, and Orkin representatives who we invited to come watch.
The whole thing was based on the idea that pest control is about protection and feeling safe in your own home, and not just getting rid of ants. It was all very touchy-feely stuff.
Anyway, apparently David (one of the members of our group) went to do an interview with JWT (v. large advertising agency) and it turns out that JWT also handles the advertising for Orkin. He wanted to show them the video we made to go with the presentation (just a 5 minute thing) because he was the one who handled the video component — but they were like, oh, we’ve seen that.
I’m told that Orkin sent up the video we made to show them an example of what they liked. So, basically, yeah, the trappings of one of my school projects is in the hands of one of the largest advertising agencies in the world because the client likes it more. Ha!
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Quick update, I installed a new plugin that spits out a list of people who commented on a post and links their name back to their respective websites. It’s a comment-whoring move to let others plug their sites on yours, but oh well, seeing as how most of the traffic into my site comes in that form anyway.
If you want to do the same thing (see the “complements of” after each post on the index page?), you can download it from that site.
I made a few quick changes to the code, though. I wanted commas in-between each person, so I needed to have the script put in a comma after every entry other than the last one. In order to do so, after the script files all comment authors and URLs into the array $commenters, I assigned a new variable $count the integer one and got a count of the array. In code form:
$result = count($commenters);
$count = 1;
(Hint: $count starts at 1 to account for the fact that I don’t want a comma after the last commenter) After that, I concatenated a comma onto the string after each commenter and added one to the count, other than the last one, by adding the following line:
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Spring Break! And I’m … in Atlanta. Of course. Aaron called about a barbecue they’re having over in Plano, sigh. I suppose I could’ve gone to California and Disneyland with Kendra, Rita, Jun and Dan, but seeing as how I’m going to go broke over the summer, it seemed more prudent to do otherwise. So here I am.
Anyway, my roommates are an orderly pair, which is great, but sometimes it gets to be a bit much so I went on a cleaning strike the day they left. It went pretty well until I realized that I, too, do not enjoy living in flith, and earlier today I started cleaning, and cleaning, and cleaning … and now the apartment is cleaner than before they left. What can I say, I am weak. And, I remember why I like my roommates.
At any rate, I’ll be sort of having my own mini-vacation next month anyway. I’m leaving on the 11th for Washington D.C. because of Georgetown’s Business Strategy Challenge, which is a student-run undergraduate case competition, where I’m going to (along with three other Goizueta kids) be representing Team Goizueta. I’ve never done a case competition before so I’m sure this will be a bit embarrassing. However, the whole thing is run by a bunch of undergrads so I’m guessing it’ll be a little to rag-tag too take all that seriously anyway.
After that, in May, I’ll be off to California for my cousin’s wedding, which will be on the 14th, which means I’ll have to miss graduation. That makes me a little sad, but … whatever. Then it’s off to NYC and maybe Taiwan right before school starts up again.
Long story short, I’m going to be jet-setting around a lot so I’m not too sad about staying in Atlanta for Spring Break. Also, I hate plane flights. And I’ve actually had a pretty good time here so far. When I got out of the movie theater after watching 300 on Saturday, the police had surrounded the building because right past the parking lot was a field where (an) armed robber(s) had escaped into. According to an officer we asked later, they caught the guys, but not before we sat around in the parking lot watching the helicopter fly around and seeing the police do their thing. Fun stuff.
300, by the way, was great.
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I spent over $3,000 yesterday. I bought a Faberge egg.
Just kidding. Okay, but seriously, I paid for my housing for this summer! I found out a week or so ago that I’d gotten an internship at Ogilvy & Mather (I’m so excited!), which is the advertising agency that I hope to work for someday. It’s the 10th largest agency worldwide (5th in the U.S.) with clients such as Dove, BP, IBM, Kodak, and so forth. I won’t know which account I’m working on until I get there, but I would love (love) to work on the Dove or Kodak accounts.
Anyway, Ogily is located on 8th Avenue in mid-town Manhattan (309 W. 49th Street, New York, NY 10019), so I booked a place that was just a couple streets down (intersection of 3rd Ave. and 55th Street). It’s going to be back to college, dorm-styled living, as opposed to my lovely apartment which I will miss, but honestly, I’m just happy to be there.
Being the dork that I am, I came up with lovely excel chart, listing out all my options before finally deciding on the one I wanted. See?
Unfortunately, even with the excessive planning, I’m still going to be broke off my ass because doing anything in New York is ridiculously expensive, which means I either need to bankrupt my parents or find another job for the next two months. What to do? Also, I’ll be turning 21 during my internship, so I’ll need to party it up NYC-style that weekend. Yay!
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Okay, I apologize for the hiatus. I’d taken to writing in my other journal – you know, one of those archaic things of the pen and ink variety – because the stuff on this one invariably gets spread across the internet. And while the internet is great for, say, PR purposes, it’s not such a hot medium for discussing my feelings on specific and inflammatory intraoffice politics.
Anyway, a lot has happened in the past few weeks, but I’ll get to all of it soon enough. For today, I said I’d post about Kendra’s birthday party, so here it is. I was in charge of decorations, so I popped by Party City, which (as my luck would have it) was in the process of closing. Are you kidding me? No. No, I am not.
But in the spirit of looking at things in a positive light, at least this meant that while the pickings were slim, they were also 50% off — w00t. I ended up spending less than 5 dollars and (an hour later) wound up with a canopy design for our dining area.
We had dinner at a 50′s-styled restaurant called Agnes and Muriel’s, which has southern fifties/sixties coooking. It sounds random, but the restaurant is great. (I went back later and stole some of Dave’s Sweet Potato Fries, and now I’m determined to learn how to make some myself — but, I’ll let you know how that goes.)
 
Finally, we went back to the apartment for dessert, which Rita baked for us, and games. Justin brought Balderdash, which I won. Dan brough DDR, which is too addicting to even talk about.
 
The best part, however, was when Rita played a slideshow with a bunch of pictures of Kendra’s baby pictures that she’d compiled. Basically, Kendra thought that she’d lost all her baby pictures in a fire at her house a long time ago, but Rita contacted her parents and asked them to find what was left, and etc. It was sweet.
The whole Wheel situation has left me with a lot of mixed feelings about friendship and relationships in general. I’ve been mentally going down a list of things that happened with a new perspective, sometimes more cynical than I’d like. But in times like this, it’s nice to be reminded that there are some things that are untouched by ulterior motives and other other uglier forms of motivation. They’re just solid and good, and I think that’s important to remember.
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