WEEK END!

The return of the booming Economy

Yesterday I was driving through the gulf road and I found that there is hell of new hi-rise constructions are going on. Thanks to responsible economic planning the Kuwaiti economy has weathered a number of downturns in oil prices. This is supplemented by the $4.8 billion budget surplus for 2004-5, and the anticipated $10 billion budget surplus for the year 2005-06.

Music to your eyes

My first 2006 shopping held yesterday. Yes new ipod shuffle. With its 320 x 240-pixel QVGA color display, iPod shuffle lets you view photos and watch MPEG-4 and H.264 video wherever you go View your own videos, or watch music videos and TV shows you can purchase from the iTunes Music Store. Use the optional iPod A/V cable to play videos and photo slideshows with music on your TV. Or combine the new Apple Remote with an optional iPod Universal Dock to control your music, videos and slideshows from across the room.

Intresting part is Up to 20 hours of battery life

The 60GB iPod offers up to 20 hours of music playback between charges, and the 30GB offers 14 hours. The iPod battery can be charged up to 80 percent capacity in 2 hours; a full charge takes 4 hours. This weekend I will be busy with uploading new songs and videos on my shuffle. I already downloaded some of the movies included the Million dollar baby yesterday night.

From Saturday I will be working while watching my favorite movies without bothering any of my “creative creatures” in the studio. Exciting!!!

Now I want to buy Sony personal speakers SRS-P11Q cost $ 25, (actually I want to buy Bose SoundDock but it cost me $149.9) to connect my ipod in to my car which allowed me to use the ipod now as a complete music to go in my life!

Ye Dil Mange More.. Aha

I start working today on a TV commercial, after a long pause. The client approved my concept, there where three major agencies where in this business pitch and our team rocks!

The Idea born from a vedio clip which taken a while ago on my Nokia and its gonna turn in to a TVC!!! I will post the sketches of the story borad later and we are planning to hire the creaw from India.

The ad expecting to release end of February 2006

Today's International Ad

Headline: Downloading
Baseline: www.pampers.com
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Argentina
Client: Pampers

Over used Concept. Remember the cancer campaign done by The Partnership? and some chines ad too, I cant recall the brand.

Shakira - Oral fixation

Shakira is back with her new album - Oral Fixation

I like the songs. What about you?

Todays International Ad

Headline: Every window becomes invisible to your eyes.

Agency: Cheil Communications Inc., Seoul
Client: Bulls One
Comment: I like the Idea! It has a sense of humour and well done art direction. How about you?

Agency loses Lowe franchise

Staff at advertising agency Lowe Dubai are to go it alone after losing the franchise for the international agency, LOWE.

The Lowe name — and the lucrative global clients that go with it — will now come under the region’s Middle East Communication Networks group, Campaign can reveal. Many of the 45-strong Dubai-based team have apparently rejected offers to join MCN, which includes Fortune Promoseven, and will set up their own agency once the Lowe name is transferred at the end of April. The renamed agency will probably be called Brand Com and it will retain more than 20 clients, although the internationally-aligned business of Unilever and Johnson & Johnson will move under the Lowe umbrella to MCN. Lowe’s owner, Interpublic Group, which already has a stake in the MCN business, decided on the move following a spate of account losses worldwide.

(LOWE-Lintas is my first agency I started my career back in India 1997)

Closing official districts for 3 days

The State of Kuwait announces official mourning for 40 days and closing official districts for 3 days starting from today 15th January 2006.

busyyyy at work ( But we havn'e even get a single day off!)
Picture taken infront of my office

Life's less serious when you drive the New Beetle

Today's international Ad
Baseline: Engineered inside out.
Agency: Fallon, Singapore
Client: Volkswagen Beetle

Agency Launch in a BUS

Interesting! rmg david rebranding their agency and the re-launch took place in a BUS. The invitation for the event is in the form of a bus ticket, and the event will take place on a bus in Mumbai.

“Ad agencies generally announce such things in a five-star hotel. No agency in the history of ad agencies has rebranded itself atop a bus. Our aim is to connect with the real India. The common man travels by trains and buses, and that is the spirit we aim to capture.”

For the record, rmg david is a WPP Group-owned agency, which was started five years ago in India. It currently has offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad.

O&M launched a new agency, Meridian

Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) has launched a new agency, Meridian, which will be a full-service ad agency based initially in Bangalore. The WPP Group agency will expand to other cities in the near future.

O&M will invest its resources to ensure Meridian’s success. N Ramesh, national creative director, O&M, Delhi, and Ganesh Raman, vice-president and head, O&M, Hyderabad, will head the new agency. While Ramesh will be the national creative director, Raman will be executive vice-president, Meridian.

MacBook pro

You’ve dreamed about it long enough. Now it has a name: MacBook Pro. Powered by a dual-core Intel engine. Up to four times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics bandwidth. With built-in iSight for instant video conferencing on the move. And Front Row with Apple Remote to dazzle everyone in the room. Wait no more. MacBook Pro starts at just $1999.

New engine, same soul
This is the first Mac notebook built upon the revolutionary new Intel Core Duo — which is actually two processors (up to 1.83GHz) engineered onto a single chip. It provides 2MB of Smart Cache, L2 cache that can be shared between both cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2D and 3D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. And the new engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro has a frontside bus and memory that, at 667MHz, runs faster than any previous Mac notebook. It’s the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.

Embedded reporter
Sit down. Click on someone’s iChat icon. And video conference from anywhere in the world. Though you can barely see it, there’s an iSight camera built into the thin bezel just above the display. So now you can conference with associates during the day and chat with the kids at night. iChat AV lets you video chat with up to three other people simultaneously. MacBook Pro also comes with Apple’s new Photo Booth application, a fun program that lets you take warped and Warholesque snapshots. With the new iLife ’06 (included, of course), you can even record movies with iSight right into iMovie, then use the new iLife’s newest application, iWeb, to create a video blog entry or podcast in just a few clicks (2).


Road show
The first notebook to deliver the Front Row media experience, MacBook Pro makes it easy (and rather spectacular) to showcase your latest creations. Whether you’re at the client’s office, on location, or back at your hotel room, you just use the Apple Remote to control your videos, music, movies, and more. Front Row lets you quickly navigate through your work and play from anywhere in the room. You can even use the Apple Remote to navigate through Keynote presentations.

Do something. Say something. Make something.
MacBook Pro comes with iLife ’06, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make it easy for anyone to make postcards, calendars, DVDs, websites and podcasts. Even professionals with proficiencies in high-end applications can appreciate the ease of creating initial compositions. Or posting pictures, videos, and commentary of current events almost before they happened. Enjoy the freedom of the press on MacBook Pro.(2).

Testing conducted by Apple in December 2005 using preproduction 15-inch MacBook Pro units with 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. Estimated SPECint_rate_base2000 score: 30.3. Estimated SPECfp_rate_base2000 score: 25.6. SPEC is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Benchmarks were compiled using the IBM compiler and a beta version of the Intel compiler for Mac OS.
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