What if we trun the sea upside down... will we be able to see the bauty that lies binieth the sea?
Thursday, July 12, 2007
SEA
What if we trun the sea upside down... will we be able to see the bauty that lies binieth the sea?
There's no more rabbits in my hat...
I remember once i've written a fairytale about the most optimistic super hero in the world. He was "Mago" he was so tiny that thumbelina looked like basketball player in front of him.. Mago had this special power to turn things upside down with a really simple procedure he used to visit people enter their heads and just make see things upside down, with this way he could make ugly things look beautiful and generally fix things when fairytale has gone bad....
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
the day i will stop trying is the day i die.
Once upon a time in a classroom there was a Philosophy instructor that appeared in front of his students holding a big box made of paper. Without speaking pulled out of the box a vase made of glass and started filling it with pebbles. His students were looking at him really wondering what he was up to. When the instructor realized that the vase couldn't afford any other pebbles asked his students: “Do you think this vase is full?” Then the students with one voice responded: “yes it is full”
He smiled at them he then pulled out from the box a small bag containing smaller pebbles and started putting them into the vase after putting enough of these little pebbles inside the vase he asked again his students: “Is the vase full this time” the student once more replied to him: “Yes it is full”.
The Instructor smiled again without speaking and he pulled out of the box a small bag with sand, he then started filling again the vase with the sand and the sand filled all the gaps that the pebbles and the smaller pebbles have left, when the vase couldn't afford more he asked once more his students; “Is this vase full?” the student this time thought of it a bit more but after a while they again replied to him: “Yes it is full”
The Instructor pulled out of the box two bottles of Beer and started filling the vase with beer again the liquid filled all the remaining space there was left in the vase , the Instructor then asked the students: Is this vase full? The students laughed and said again “Yes this time is full”
Ok then says the Instructor; I now want you to think that this glass vase is your life. Big Pebbles are the most important things in your life, like family, friends, home, health, children… things that can make your life look full even if there are no other things in your life. The little pebbles are all those things that keep coming in our lives like studies, work, our flat, our car these are small things if you put them first in your vase there will be no room for the bigger pebbles the important things in life. The sand is everything else a nice dinner, a big travel, dancing, watching sports.. if you put the sand first in the vase there will be no room for either the pebbles nor the little pebbles. The vase is your life if you spend your time and power to the unimportant things you will never find time for the most important things in life.
Put your priorities in life separate which things are more important for your happiness. Talk with your parents, spend time with the one you love, take care of your health, and enjoy time with your friends. Eventually you will always find time to study, acquire knowledge, buy a new car pay the phone bill, but first you need to take care of the big pebbles the priorities in your lives. The Students were speechless and staring the instructor. Until one of te students asked him “Sir, what does the beer stands for in our lives” then the instructor smiled at him and said: “I'm glad you ask this question, no matter how full your life is, no matter how stressed you are in life, no matter how difficult life treat you there will always be a room for a couple of beers. Cheers.
Monday, July 9, 2007
From Sidair 2 Cyder
From this...
to this....
Experience wise i think i feel really happy... result wise however iam feeling really ugly and don't know if that can be beautiful.
The first post of this blog was on March 9th and that was the first part of this journey. The truth is that i really enjoyed the making of this blog, i had the chance to meet with new people to meet some other candidates as well and living a dream for almost 5 months.
I've tried to low the expectations to noone else but me. Then one day i saw in my inbox something that made me grin from ear to ear:
Dear Chris
Thanks again for your submission. You are on our shortlist and will be contacted in the next few weeks.
wk side Team
Although i was trying not to believe it the temptation and the "What if" were already spinning in my mind i was really excited and looking forward for the next steps :D
then after some weeks another "Smile Creator" email in my Inbox:
"Thank you for your entry to WKside3.
Congratulations you have been chosen to come to an interview at Wieden + Kennedy for a potential side position.
The interview will take place on Wednesday 4th July, 9.30 - 12.30 please confirm you can make it asap.
The placement will be from 30th July and will run for three months so you must be available for this period of time and have a valid work permit.
If you have any questions please email back.
Look forward to meeting you on Wednesday.
The WKside Team"
And then everybody started... my heart was already in W+K doing projects meeting new people and learning stuff, my logic though was trying to pull my heart out of this psychedelic state and i spend some days before the interview watching my heart fighting with my logic....
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And then Wednesday was there... 9:20 W+K London. Smiling and having in my side Queen heart (the winner) with her small son Enthusiasm yelling at me GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO ... the day was really interesting lot's of nice people from all over the world.
We had Seb from Germany, we had Michael from Barcelona, we had Zac (an american that flew from Shanghai just for the interview), Dominik from Sweden, and a really cool guy from Zurich that i can remember his name & i do apologize for that. And of course we had me from Greece. In the blue corner Daz,Loose,Matt,Natt,Sam the WkSide team.
Sam was the leader of the team wearing a lovely yellow dress and breaking the ice when needed, i think she is a person that can inspire a whole team. Daz was a really interesting guy with amazing sneakers on his feet, matt was the type of person you call "this is a good guy" like a silent power, Loose was a really interesting character and frequent reader of this blog, i think Loose is a person who can make you laugh really loud.. a small creature called humor was there with her at all times :D finally Natt, she was like a small girl like the ones who pull their mothers' dresses to get more candy, really content type of person with a great smile.
After the first introductions the day started with presentations of W+K. I really liked the intro of the presentation with the movie theme on the begging. The whole experience was great so many people in such a creative environment.
After the first hour everyone was feeling more comfortable with each other. And then the meeting room welcomed the previous WKsiders Ben,Ben&Sophie minus one member Barbara i think, who is in Australia. They really seemed a good team and after a nice presentation they did regarding their experience as Siders we moved on for the team project that was assigned by the Skinny, Simon of WK-Fat what an irony. He briefed us on wk music and loose started announcing the team members of each team. I was appointed with Michael, Anna, Dominik & Zac. It was really fun and they are all great. We were the first to present so we were quite nervous; having the time running faster than a speeding bullet and working in a room in which i could smell the big ideas left-overs we managed to prepare a presentation about the idea of
Welcome to (P)optimism, which was about an interactive installation in form of a Ghetto blaster in the parking area of W+K, in which people could interact with some of the hottest upcoming music bands and eventually getting the chance to meet them and attend in one of their Gigs.. then we had the other groups presenting some really nice ideas as well and then we started speed dating with all the WkSide team really funny and interesting process you could tell that everyone wanted to learn something from you. The next step was the wrap-up stage, my heart and my enthusiasm were a bit hungry but good in general. After saying hello to everybody I went home and took a really heavy nap, mind fatigue sometimes is much more effective than body. Then the patience stage came to me really nervous, really patient, trying to put my mind into order and see what i have done good & what I’ve done bad. I didn't knew if i had to be optimistic and putting my self in, or just wait for the final whistle of the referee… and this is what I did I’ve lowered the expectations and waited for the final whistle to cry out of joy or out of disappointment.
For those of you who don’t know me I used to be a Basketball player and learned to be patient and always work hard for my teammates. I’ve learned also how to lose and how to win, I learned that sometimes the game is more important than the result, I’ve learned that team is family, friend, girlfriend, the most important I’ve learned to play fair, respect the rules and recognize the power of the opponent, I’ve learned that if the referee doesn’t blow the final whistle nothing’s over, and if it’s over it’s not over because all important games have this strange ability to camp for a long time in your mind. I’ve taught never to retreat and surrender.
However just this morning I got informed that I wasn’t successful for getting into the scheme, I’ll never know what went wrong I’l never know what would it be, but one thing I know is that I tried, I played fair, I really wanted that and finally enjoyed the whole thing. I’ve learned a lot not only from my experience on W+K but also from my experience in living in London. I gained some valuable friends and I lost some great battles but I never ever ever gonna give up… Although the result brought me from Sidair to Cider…
Magic.
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this project.
This blog will continue to exist and answering the question if anything can be beautiful.
THE END.
to this....
Experience wise i think i feel really happy... result wise however iam feeling really ugly and don't know if that can be beautiful.
The first post of this blog was on March 9th and that was the first part of this journey. The truth is that i really enjoyed the making of this blog, i had the chance to meet with new people to meet some other candidates as well and living a dream for almost 5 months.
I've tried to low the expectations to noone else but me. Then one day i saw in my inbox something that made me grin from ear to ear:
Dear Chris
Thanks again for your submission. You are on our shortlist and will be contacted in the next few weeks.
wk side Team
Although i was trying not to believe it the temptation and the "What if" were already spinning in my mind i was really excited and looking forward for the next steps :D
then after some weeks another "Smile Creator" email in my Inbox:
"Thank you for your entry to WKside3.
Congratulations you have been chosen to come to an interview at Wieden + Kennedy for a potential side position.
The interview will take place on Wednesday 4th July, 9.30 - 12.30 please confirm you can make it asap.
The placement will be from 30th July and will run for three months so you must be available for this period of time and have a valid work permit.
If you have any questions please email back.
Look forward to meeting you on Wednesday.
The WKside Team"
And then everybody started... my heart was already in W+K doing projects meeting new people and learning stuff, my logic though was trying to pull my heart out of this psychedelic state and i spend some days before the interview watching my heart fighting with my logic....
.jpg)
And then Wednesday was there... 9:20 W+K London. Smiling and having in my side Queen heart (the winner) with her small son Enthusiasm yelling at me GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO ... the day was really interesting lot's of nice people from all over the world.
We had Seb from Germany, we had Michael from Barcelona, we had Zac (an american that flew from Shanghai just for the interview), Dominik from Sweden, and a really cool guy from Zurich that i can remember his name & i do apologize for that. And of course we had me from Greece. In the blue corner Daz,Loose,Matt,Natt,Sam the WkSide team.
Sam was the leader of the team wearing a lovely yellow dress and breaking the ice when needed, i think she is a person that can inspire a whole team. Daz was a really interesting guy with amazing sneakers on his feet, matt was the type of person you call "this is a good guy" like a silent power, Loose was a really interesting character and frequent reader of this blog, i think Loose is a person who can make you laugh really loud.. a small creature called humor was there with her at all times :D finally Natt, she was like a small girl like the ones who pull their mothers' dresses to get more candy, really content type of person with a great smile.
After the first introductions the day started with presentations of W+K. I really liked the intro of the presentation with the movie theme on the begging. The whole experience was great so many people in such a creative environment.
After the first hour everyone was feeling more comfortable with each other. And then the meeting room welcomed the previous WKsiders Ben,Ben&Sophie minus one member Barbara i think, who is in Australia. They really seemed a good team and after a nice presentation they did regarding their experience as Siders we moved on for the team project that was assigned by the Skinny, Simon of WK-Fat what an irony. He briefed us on wk music and loose started announcing the team members of each team. I was appointed with Michael, Anna, Dominik & Zac. It was really fun and they are all great. We were the first to present so we were quite nervous; having the time running faster than a speeding bullet and working in a room in which i could smell the big ideas left-overs we managed to prepare a presentation about the idea of
Welcome to (P)optimism, which was about an interactive installation in form of a Ghetto blaster in the parking area of W+K, in which people could interact with some of the hottest upcoming music bands and eventually getting the chance to meet them and attend in one of their Gigs.. then we had the other groups presenting some really nice ideas as well and then we started speed dating with all the WkSide team really funny and interesting process you could tell that everyone wanted to learn something from you. The next step was the wrap-up stage, my heart and my enthusiasm were a bit hungry but good in general. After saying hello to everybody I went home and took a really heavy nap, mind fatigue sometimes is much more effective than body. Then the patience stage came to me really nervous, really patient, trying to put my mind into order and see what i have done good & what I’ve done bad. I didn't knew if i had to be optimistic and putting my self in, or just wait for the final whistle of the referee… and this is what I did I’ve lowered the expectations and waited for the final whistle to cry out of joy or out of disappointment.
For those of you who don’t know me I used to be a Basketball player and learned to be patient and always work hard for my teammates. I’ve learned also how to lose and how to win, I learned that sometimes the game is more important than the result, I’ve learned that team is family, friend, girlfriend, the most important I’ve learned to play fair, respect the rules and recognize the power of the opponent, I’ve learned that if the referee doesn’t blow the final whistle nothing’s over, and if it’s over it’s not over because all important games have this strange ability to camp for a long time in your mind. I’ve taught never to retreat and surrender.
However just this morning I got informed that I wasn’t successful for getting into the scheme, I’ll never know what went wrong I’l never know what would it be, but one thing I know is that I tried, I played fair, I really wanted that and finally enjoyed the whole thing. I’ve learned a lot not only from my experience on W+K but also from my experience in living in London. I gained some valuable friends and I lost some great battles but I never ever ever gonna give up… Although the result brought me from Sidair to Cider…
Magic.
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this project.
This blog will continue to exist and answering the question if anything can be beautiful.
THE END.
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