A Brand called Nick

As part of the Miami Ad School curriculum, guests of some advertising or technological noteworthiness are invited weekly to lecture the students on trends, advice, or any insight to prepare/provide us with an edge in the industry. These guests also assign a project.

New week. New project.

While I don't particularly enjoy talking about myself (because I'm so awesome your ears would bleed), this week's A Brand Called You assignment from Jessica Kizorek was pretty fun. The challenge was to find something inherent in my life, that I could use to make people remember me.

After serious consideration, I decided to focus not on specific accomplishments, my life story, or why my hair is as long as Professor Snape's, but what is it I spend the most time doing. When I'm not sleeping.

Running and cheeseburgers. Of all the things in my life, I enjoy dedicating my time to these two activities just as much as working on ads. Training for races, and participating in a multi-city burger challenge with my best friends. And, while it's funny to say running and cheeseburgers both require as much endurance and determination, they do.

Life is about balance. Business and pleasure. For me, luckily, the scale isn't tipping in either direction.

Now you can vote!

Guess what? Now you have the power to vote for our video!

Visit http://youtube.com/canneslions
Search nickpwaytobe
Play Oxfam Signature
Click the Green Thumb

Thanks for all the support!

48 Hours to Cannes

My partner, Marton, and I, with great help from our multi-talented friend Peter Megler, finished our spot for the Cannes Young Lions 48-hour Youtube contest with about 16 hours to go.

The brief was to create a Youtube video on behalf of Oxfam. The goal was to inspire viewers to pressure the UN to sign an agreement to end global climate change.

We're pretty happy with the finished product. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6dkbLcM4Ps

If you like what you see, share it as much as you can! Help us get to Cannes!

What's worse?

Discovering this blog still exists?
Realizing how built I was in college, and how I've atrophied?
Recalling how much fun living/interning in London for a summer can be?
Knowing that this find will lead to the resurrection and redesigning of a once addictive passion?

If you guessed "How awesome my faux-hawk was in college," you are correct. That, however, was not an option, so I take pleasure in the thought of knowing you, unlike Indiana Jones in the (not so) Last Crusade, did not choose wisely.