Hello, I'm Christian Verschaeren,
Creative Director at Emakina.
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It has been brought to my attention that I never mentioned the fact that I have a new daughter.
Which of course is unforgivable!!
So without further ado, allow me to present my lovely wife and hairy daughter Wilma.
Also, notice the hairpin on my wife’s sweater, it’s on the left side, which means that Wilma was last fed from the left breast and the right one’s next.
So, yes, my wife’s the clever one.
I’m leaving for a 2-week vacation next friday, to Draguignan in the Provence.
Which is pretty damn cool in itself.
But what makes it extra cool is that the Tour de France is coming through Draguignan on the 5th.
Which gives me ample opportunity to encourage the riders, _and_ make dirty hand gestures at the organizing committee for excluding Tom Boonen.
Dear Ferrero,
maybe you haven’t noticed, but there’s a recession out there. We’re all trying not to waste anything and get the most out of our money.
You’re not exactly helping.
I’m fully aware that the iconic hazelnut paste jar is part of your brand, but the “iconic shape” is preventing me from scraping the last blobs of paste out of it. Hence, of every jar about 5% goes to waste.
Ferrchrissakes, just sell the the paste in a scrape-friendly straight jar. You’ll make loads of people’s life better, which will result in a ginormous amount of free publicity.
Yours truly,
father of three of your brand affectionados.
It is so totally worth it to buy pods of peas rather than bags of peas. Okay, it takes a while to de-pod em ‘all, but that proved to be a fun project to do with my daughter. The taste is just phenomenal, you can even eat them raw.
What is Platform?
Platform is a future creative talent platform, which will hire, teach and work with a diverse mix of people, from around the world. We will recruit talent from the arts, sciences and technology backgrounds who will work together to solve business problems through creative solutions. You will learn by doing which means being involved in everything from building prototypes, enabling and assisting in research development to curating your very own event space and programme.
This looks like a great initiative. And seeing it’s from the fine folks over at W+K it probably IS a fine initiative.
I’m definitely participating. I don’t have a clue as to what my chances of getting selected are, but the brief is right up my alley and it looks like I’ll have fun responding to it.
The whole thing doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of traction online though, here’s the blog search results.
Hence this post, just trying to get the ball rolling.
I ended up on some dodgy sites the other day that had banners for Adult Friend Finder. An ” online sex and swinger personals community website.”
They served me these kind of banners:
What’s puzzling me is the “Tremelo” part.
Because I live three villages over from Tremelo.
So what I’m wondering about is:
Is this because their IP positioning can’t precisely pinpoint my location?
OR
Did they do some research on what the ideal ratio is between “a lady that lives handily close for a quick shag, but not that close that the missus might find out” and ended up with the Golden Ratio of Infidelity which is: 3 villages over.
Found here, a Yahoo Pipe that plots your Twitter followers on a map.
These are my followers:
There’s a bike shop right by my office, which is right at the border of the Forest de Soigne, which is a great forest for mountainbiking. The shop always looked a bit too posh for me, so I never really liked it.
Until yesterday, when I noticed this:
They installed a bike wash, a free to use water hose so people can hose of their muddy bikes when they come out of the forest.
I think that’s a great idea.
Another thing that hit me is that I went “Wow, a branded utility in the offline world!” While in fact branded utilities are online versions of stuff that companies have been doing for centuries, like branded matchbooks.
Duh!
Apart from doing my thing in advertising/marketing/thingymajig as a creative/planner/whatever, I’m also an Internet Entrepreneur.
Me and my partner just launched version 2 of Wantz.it
http://www.wantz.it is an online wish list that’s a zillion times easier to use than all the other wish lists out there.
Behold the demo video:
Demo of ww.wantz.it the online wishlist. from Luis de funes on Vimeo.
When I launched the first version, which was a very basic thing that cost nothing to develop, I made $5 in the first two days through the Amazon referral marketing program….
Since then I’ve gotten myself a partner, developed the thing further, and we’re on our way to having a real (and profitable) business.
And although it’s very hard work and often frustrating, I’m loving it. You learn so much! From technical stuff, to hosting issues, business models, dealing with partners, usability, design and running a business.
But what’s really satisfying is that I can finally apply all my ideas of how a business should be social & interesting to a business: my own.
Spent a few hours pouring my thoughts in presentation form.
Uploaded on slideshare.
See what happens.
Feel free to comment here or directly on slideshare.