HELLO AUSTRALIA

POPETASTIC NEWS

I'm sorry but owing to legal restrictions ADnews is unable to bring you the Kimberley Cass interview with George Pell. Luckily for all involved the weather turned out nice owing to a sudden and unexpected papal break in the ongoing global warming crisis.

ADnation is out tomorrow

Kimberley Cass interviews Cardinal George Pell and more!

The Pope-Pourri

Just as everyone has a Doctor Who so with Popes. Mine are respectively Tom Baker and John Paul II. So I can't get used to seeing this hollow-eyed munchkin steppin' out. Such is life. Not to be put off though I have endeavoured to celebrate the Papal visit with a classic DM desk ornament - the Pope-Pourri. Fifty have been posted and I will be hand-deliverin' some more tomorrow as His Holiness sails into the harbour. Check out those shoes. This guy knows about style. I am not a Catholic but I did once achieve an accidental audience with JP II in a minor Rome airport whilst awaiting a flight back to the UK. Sitting atop a suitcase, chomping on a Marlborough Light (me, not the Pope)a seamless entourage of men in black bristled along a laid red carpet 3 metres ahead of me. A sudden parting of the human cloak revealed the Pope who waved and smiled and then he was gone. Amazing!

The Pope-Pourri comes in two parts and you fill the conical head with the sweet-smelling wooden chips and place neatly in the Papal body. Oooh, he smells gorgeous!If you'd like one text me on 0405 593123 and I'll put one in the post. CHECK OUT www.alipellatt.com for more photos and while yer at it commission me to come up with some ideas for you!

Hello UK

Thanks for checking out the blog. I have been busy establishing myself in Sydney, Australia. It's great here and the new media market is going crazy as Oz catches up with the US and Europe. I update this 'ere diary a couple of times a week and will send out a Blog Alert once a month. The above image is one of eight dps I did for 'Do Not Open' for Dorling Kindersley. It reached #7 in the New York book sellers list and is now in a massive reprint. That's good news as I am on yummy royalties. Keep yer eyes on the AliPellatt site as there's loads of new work on there too.

ADnation. Interview with RANDY LYNCH

It's a newsletter in development. Trouble is I am not a designer. Should I just continue with the blog or should I send an HTML newsletter to one and all? Is the 'Imagined Interview' column too risquee? Will I alienate my potential clients? Am I too much for Australia? Am I not enough? It doesn't 'arf raise a lot of wankey self-referential questions.

Canon PIXMA. 'It should have been me' campaign

I want to make a theatre 3D scenario for Canon to follow up their current print campaign which uses three dimensional objects printed out on their PIXMA printer so I am telephoning their Brand Manager to make a suggestion this week. With a bit of luck Gary Clarke at Leo Burnett's will let me back through the door with my folios.

CANNES KIT DOUBLES HITS

In the week preceeding the Cannes Advertising Festival I began a trickle send-out of a cardboard Awards night scenario called the Cannes Creative Kit to 50 Top Creatives in Australia and their CEOs. The list included all the judges heading over to France such as Ashley Ringrose and Dylan Taylor and a raft of Mega-stars such as Nobby, Peter Bidenko and Matt Eastwood. On my list were all the Creatives who I thought might win a Lion (and the Agencies current creative incumbents - let's face it the original brains of the winning campaigns might have moved on). Also included were some people I just like and respect and who have been good to me since I arrived in the Land of Rain and Very Little Quality Soccer. People like Dave Whittle and Gavin McLeod at Mark and Marco Eychenne at Tequila. All in all the names, to me, read like a Hollywood A-List of people I'd really like to work with.
Anyway, I followed up with an email to most people (some are still in Europe)and achieved the following classifiable results: a 12% direct response from recipients by return email, a doubling of hits to my site with an average of 50 daily unique users from Australia and some very encouraging conversations from brilliant people enabling me to believe I am pursuing a creative path that may well meet some excellent advertising Campaigns along the way. Best of all was an email follow-up and chat with Nigel Marsh (despite the fact he's starting a new job as CEO of GPYR this week), emails from Damian Royce, Jamie Scott and Parris Mesidis, Scot Waterhouse and Peter Bidenko. I also got a very strange phone call from someone at Naked (who shall remain nameless) who never followed up his original query. Also Nick Cummins at Sputnik has requested a kit and one will go out today.
And now onto my next 3D project which involves the Pope and will go out on the week of 15th-20th July. So.....50 will be delivered, this time only to Sydney Sufferers of the impending visit from the Worshippers of Suffering. God bless 'em!