long time no see...

What's going on? how are you? how's life how's inspiration?

I now live in Athens Greece, which happens to be my hometown. Things here are weird, we're supposed to have a huge economic crisis and this "kills" almost every creative thought in any field.

The truth is that our politicians fucked up the system and brought our beautiful country into the edge. However Greece is still a very beautiful country and it's quite a privilege to be able to walk with a t-shirt in November.

As for me i'm still doing advertising and i still learn new things every day, i still don't know if coming back from Amsterdam was a good thing overall, but i think it was a mistake, which is not necessary a bad thing.

Other than that Adsurd is back in a more enhanced way which you will have the chance to see in few posts...

What the fuck

Holly shit? where the hell i've been i have forgot this blog, zilch.
not a good thing to do bad there is always a reason so i'm happy with myself up to a certain extend.

anyway what about thinking? i don't know i'm in a weird mood lately my head is full of thoughts that are becoming more and more and more so i just have to stay still and wait until this wave of thoughts explodes my head and make it look like a PS2 TBWA/PARIS advert. Anyway cut the bullshit now and find out a way to rejuvenate this blog.

zilch. Zilch. ZiLch. ZILCH. zILCH, ZiLCH.....

The new.

But there are times when people truly risk something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends.

Still struggling to find when is the best time to enter the new, when the time to risk in here... how fun risk can be? it's really hard sometimes to discover, but what i like to say is Start today what you are planning for tomorrow..
This was just a though.. the blog will be new. I have also a risk in my mind, not sure if i will go for it still trying to see if the timing is good, but even if it's not.. it will still be fun. Welcome new.

Advertising?

What is advertising? nobody knows anymore, and that's what's Fun everyone's trying to find what the fuck is going on out there and what the fuck is advertising!
I love this situation i think it's brilliant amazing. I just love it what else can i say Love it Love it Love it..

by the way if anyone knows the answer please comment.

WHAT THE FUCK IS ADVERTISING??


So long Suckers.

tadaaaa

Here's the new logo-branding for the 2012 London Olympics. The logo was revealed yesterday and was designed by Wolff Olins.

here is the comment of the creative review blog:

London 2012’s “multimedia brand image” was unveiled today by Lord Coe, chairman of London’s Olympic committee. Designed by Wolff Olins the logo is, apparently, based on the four *ahem* brand pillars of access, participation, stimulation and inspiration. So-far-so-predictable: but who would have guessed it would quite turn out… like this?



As for my opinion i will try to defend Athens 2004 branding which i really liked. Yes i know i am from Athens, but that's my honest opinion i think the Athens branding was really good trying to combine the ancient with the modern Olympics. This one tough is somehow pop& futuristic i like the fact that is different & i think it would look fine in 2012.

Silence

Silence is silent.
Silence comes before panic
Silence make you think
Silence makes you melancholic
Silence makes you patient
Silence makes you an optimist
Silence is quiet
Silence is the start
Slience makes you think sensible
Silence makes you hope
Silence is also the end...

No matter what it is silence.

It's the final countdown....

Sometimes in life things are getting really weird, you can go from the bottom to the top in seconds you can explore your limits simply by doing something simple, you can even change your life just because your are not feeling good with it. The Best part however, is the part when you start countdown for that change, the part in which things get insane and the final countdown begins... I have totally no idea why i just wrote this LOL :-) Happiness to the people.

New Logo...

the truth is that i've had for a long time in my mind the AdSurd logo creation concept. After many many many designs i came up with this blue logo... don't know if i like it but i'll keep it till i find something more interesting.

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UPDATE
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After the comment of a Lovely reader that the logo with the astertisk looks like the Wallpaper* magazine logo... i've changed my lovely asterisk. :-( Thanks anyway.

an important lesson for patience..

Before geting my self into advertising, i was a basketball player. These years were really important for me as i had the chance to learn some important things. I might not learned that impossible is nothing, but one thing i now very well is that a game ends when the ref gives the final whistle, until that time we should always fight to win we should always hope... if we win we should celebrate our victory like it is the first vicotory we had, if we loose we have to sit down and think what went wrong and next time make it better... So there is still hope...

WE ARE ALIVE!

The truth is that i've been very busy during the last couple of weeks... Things were frantic but i think i did well, i could have done better, but maybe i keep the best things for the future; who knows?... The best are yet to come, sooner or later the sun always comes out, to the infinity and beyond...

GRANDE!!!!!!

I always enjoy people like Roberto Benigni. They love so much what they do that having fun out of it, i remember reading a quote of Confucius saying "he who loves what he does, doesn;t need to work a single day in his life." My point is that we should love what we do. If we do we will start having fun, we will start making things who knows we might start some magic!
:-)))

Color mood

It is always nice to have black mood, cause you always know that magic will happen and will become white, red ,yellow or whatever. It is called Optimism.

Now what's that!

My feelings are mixed at this time, ZOOPPA is a new business that has to do with user generated content, there is a guy that promises briefs and money to people as long as they make virals. It is a quite scary thing he does, although this is an interesting business which in my opinion will find lot of followers. However there is a big objection i have there, and this is about the way that this Italo-American guy choose to market his business: I give you the brief you gime me your ad i give you money. OK mr. New enterpreneur i ave a question for you. What about the idea and the Art within the advertising, what about the creatives, what about the happiness of creation. I don't know i might be too romantic but this thing scares me bit and i think that the success of user generated content so far, was based on the thing that all happened for fun in an amateur way! now that money comes i think this is gonna somehow lose it's Shine! By the way you can "compete" for the best idea @ www.zooppa.com.

Adsurd is Back

We are back after a lovely week in HOME! amazing weather! amazing people friends family and many amazing other things! sooo keep up for the new AdSurd posts.


But it's always better to start outside the window...

Thinking.

There are many people that have a rather romantic view of the world, they are the ones that believe that can change the world, they are the ones that see all other people like friends, they are the ones that try to do things they really love, they are the ones who believe in the power of dreams, they are the ones who ignore the rules and live in their own world. I don't know if they are the crazy ones that Apple commercial features, I don't even know if these people are many or few. All I only know is that these people actually get disappointed every day when they start to realize the real world and not the world they would like to live in, when they see that other people see them as competitors and not as friends, when they look at the sky and see clouds, when they come to a point that seems as a dead end. When they start to realize that they have to leave in a world of Do's and Don’ts, when they try to rewrite the rules and redraw the lines, and the only thing they get is rules and lines again, when they realize that real world, when they realized that some simple things in life are those who matter most and some other "important" things are not so good for them. Actually there are lots of when's in this thought but being pessimistic is not something that characterizes me. That was just a thought!