Friday, December 16, 2005

Pygmy buffalo

Spent the day trying to figure out how to place an image of a pygmy buffalo into another image of an empty loft in such a manner as to cause hundreds of 30-year-olds with $465K to spend on their "first place" to run to my client's sales office and purchase a penthouse on the spot.

Other silly things I've done with my days:

1. As commanded by Creative Director, test-drove toothbrushes for about three hours so I could write more lucidly about why my client's product swept the gorund with the competition. For the record, the best mouthfeel: Oral B, Stages (2) for infants. Kinda tickles.
2. Helped wrap an office clerk in gauze then loaded him in a taxi to deliver a proposal for "The Mummy Returns" to Universal.
3. Tried to teach 20 Indian engineers how to write about internet telephony in the active voice.
4. Wrote handbook on how American executives could avoid kidnapping in South America. Best sentence: "When you think you are being pursued, do not hesitate to drive on the sidewalk." Nicuraguans are, apparently, a sturdy people.
5. Researched the difference between larval stages of various blowflies found on corpses. Wrote timeline of putrefaction illustrated by attendant bugs.
6. Filmed account executives singing "Zoom Zoom Zoom."
7. Made push-pin map of sightings of the Blessed Virgin Mary across North America. I really, truly did get paid for that.

So HA to all those rich lawyers and brokers and and and plumbers. I be po but I be interesting.

Update: Just got an email that says this: "Sorry it took so long but I had to bath out the hi-res buffalo." Perhaps another of those sentences never before written.

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