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Category Archive: ‘Thanks’

campaign ‘em like junk food

Once and awhile you get to work on something that changes things.  Maybe you find it bubbling just under the surface, already there.  Maybe you set it into motion, fresh and new.  Maybe you just get lucky.  But whatever the reason, the work touches people- makes them think, or even rethink commonly held assumptions.  So here’s to a team of amazing people – Andrew, Rob, Jeff, Tiffany, Omid, Liz, Bekah, Tim, Andy, Andrew, Todd, Kate, Jesse, Andy, Yvette, Becky, Lindsey, the cogs, the content managers, the production department, the media department, all the attractive people at CP+B I don’t have room to list here, Guy, Amir, No6, Smuggler, Pretty Bird, Method and of course the wonderful, brave people of Bolthouse Farms.  Everybody came together as a team to create something rare.  And it’s not just the New York Times, Salon.com, Huffpo, or even the Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger that have taken notice and become part of a much needed debate about what and how we eat, but real people - high school kids, mommy bloggers and snackers across the world – are now questioning what it means to eat ‘em like junk food.  Check out the effort at babycarrots.com, be part of the conversation on twitter, download the app and check out the spots after the jump.

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October 1st, 2010     Comment  No Comments

I am for sale

October 17th I’ll be running the Nike Women’s Marathon (yes I know) with Team in Training in support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. And I need your help. For the three people who actually read this blog, please help me out if you can. I’ll even try and sweeten the deal with the following:

I am selling my body parts. I haven’t had to resort to selling my entire body but I am willing to do so. In the meantime, I am selling off various body parts. $50 each. For an arm, a leg, a thigh, hands etc. You will own that space for the entirety of race-day and put anything you like there: a marker message of hope, a drawing, or an opportunity to call me names, deride my appearance and call into question why I’m even alive, breathing your delicious oxygen.  Swearing is encouraged.

Secondly, I am also selling space on my “Get Totally Pumped Race Playlist.” If it was up to me it’d be filled with nothing but Billy Ocean and Van Halen. But it’s not up to me. For $5 you can make me listen to any song you want. You can lift my spirits by getting the Led out or you can torture me with Yanni. Your choice. Buy multiples or put up whole albums.  And if I barf along the way it might just be because of your Mannheim Steamroller.

So please help out if you can. I’ll send you a pic of the body part you buy and your song in my playlist and I’ll periodically update this post to indicate who bought what (if anything). You can leave your message or song in the comments section on the donation page. And remember, cancer strikes anyone, anywhere.  And while it might not be a part of your life now, if may be in the future. So let’s fucking cure it, eh?

If you’d like to read my motivations for running and to donate, visit here.

If you’d like more information about Team in Training or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society visit here and here.

Thanks,

Marc

July 21st, 2010     Comment  No Comments

Lovely day for a bowl

James Moslander Earl of Fontleroy

James came to my birthday party this summer and with grit and poise he destroyed the universe, remade it with his mind, had a sandwich, destroyed it again and remade it whole a second time.

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December 21st, 2009     Comment  No Comments

Haircuts for Sasquatch

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Special thanks to Laurie Ann Greenberg at Halo Salon for accepting the challenge.

June 17th, 2009     Comment  No Comments

Thanks

This wouldn’t have happened without the talent and dedication of some spectacular people.  Thank you Mom and Dad, Ross, Lee, James, Matt, Todd, Kylie, Hal, Sheena, Ryan, Thomas, Julia, Amber, Andrea, the Studio, Joint, everyone at W+K, Tina, Andrew, Thibault, Neysa, Michael, everyone at Psyop, Flying Fish, Tom, the folks at Mollie’s, Stimmung and Lime.

January 29th, 2009     Comment  No Comments

Look away

Chris Berry is the talented gent who drew the portrait on the opening page of my site.  Recently, he decided to create the seizure-inducing version above.  If you haven’t died yet, visit his site.

November 2nd, 2008     Comment  No Comments

Chris Berry becomes a man

Below we see Chris Berry shooting a .38 special on Christmas morning. For Jesus. The bullets are ideas and the target is Clutter. The distance between the two is branding.

Chris Berry Screenshot

It was also his last Saturday in Portland. Godspeed Chris.

June 10th, 2008     Comment  No Comments

Thanks for the Facebook drink

I can’t believe you thought of me. I mean you saw the picture of a beer and you thought “I bet Marc would love a drink he can’t actually drink and costs nothing both in monetary and effort terms.” Then you clicked on a button. That must have taken like 5-7 seconds. And that’s 5-7 seconds you can’t get back.

Hold on, let me enjoy it. Mmmmmmm. That was so good. It tasted like pixels and cheap. But don’t worry, I’m here for you too buddy, if you ever need a a virtual kidney or a “bail me out of jail” picture, I’m sure I can take 5-7 seconds and click a button.

June 8th, 2008     Comment  No Comments