Amsterdam Winter

Amsterdam can be a hard city in the winter especially for a Texan. But I was able to momentarily forget the suffering of dark days and cycling in miserable cold and rain this morning . . . because of the beauty of fresh snow.

So I grabbed my camera and took it with me on the ride to work so I could share the view.

More Holiday Cheer

If you're still scrambling to send your holiday cards, here are a few tips.

If your loved ones are eco-friendly then consider Seltzer totally earth friendly cards.

And if you can't be bothered to buy stamps, at least consider clicking the send button with someecards.

Both of these card companies were started by former advertising colleagues.

It's Official

I am now entering a zone some of you may fear . . . it is the Holiday spirit come upon me. You have been warned.

Anthony visits Amsterdam

My dear friend Anthony, who I met my freshmen year while studying at St. Edward's University, finally came to visit me in Amsterdam. We had a wonderful time flitting about to dinners, drinks, and finally brunch at the Dylan . . . which I highly recommend.

LA style

I recently took a business trip to LA and stayed at the Viceroy which I recommend to anyone. It is centrally located in Santa Monica, is low-key yet hip and fresh, and the staff are stellar.

At a business dinner on the trip it just so happened that Yi Jianlian of the Milwaukee Bucks stopped by our table to say hi to one of our colleagues . . . so later I shamelessly weasled my way into this picture to try and impress Ofir who loves basketball.

And at the end of the trip, I found myself with a few hours to kill before our 11 hour flight back to Amsterdam, so my colleague Josh rented a car (that only a young British man would) and took me for a cruise up the PCH and lunch in Malibu at Geoffrey’s.

New Art

For all you art lovers out there, just thought I’d remind you that Art Basel Miami was December 6-9 in Miami and will be in Basel June 4-8. To understand why I bother to share this, please check out this video from last year’s Miami event.

Assuming none of us attended the Miami event you can keep tabs on what happened by checking ArtKrush or Coolhunting. For any of you who want to see if we can swing Basel in June, just shout.

Artwork by: Cary Kwok, Plumage - Japanese (Heisei), 2007

APG Awards

On the 12th of November our planning department attended the APG Creative Strategy Awards ceremony in London.

We did incredibly well, winning one gold, one silver, one bronze, two special awards and APG Strategy Agency of the Year (joint winners with M&C Saatchi but winners all the same). Here I am above celebrating with Kerrie Finch our head of PR and Jenny Howard the lastest edition to comms planning at W+K.

Another success of the trip was discovering, by recommendation of a friend, good Mexican food in London. Wahaca is sadly mispelled for the sake of proper British pronunciation but more than makes up for it with killer tacos and margaritas.