Happy 2012 ^^
I’ve started to do a summary of 2011 but it just feels like too much stuff happened last year for me to squeeze in to a blog post. That’s why it was a relief to see Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez’s beautiful pictures from new year’s!
All pictures are taken from her tumblr.
Cant. Stop. Clicking.
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
(Source: mandaflewaway, via thebulbmode)
I don’t know about you guys…
…but I wouldn’t exactly call a cut out mouth inside of Oprah Winfrey’s face a “high tech learning” tool.
Just booked tickets…
…back to Stockholm in November to talk about the über smart every day technology in South Korea at Beckmans School of Design.
Arranged by Dear Future.
Picture by Dave Matt, found through photo blog “In love With South Korea”.
Just some pictures that has been fooling around inside my head and at my desktop for some time.
Aber Hallo
Life is actually, about, 100% more fun than it looks like in this loopcam-gif. This is taken last night when I was waiting for the subway to get me back home from a night of barhopping. Living in Berlin (and especially during the summer) is the: best. Good thing I have a lot of fun things to do with great colleagues at work so that the weekdays are a much fun as the weekends.
Projects to do within the next week: I have an idea of reproducing a product I found in Korea, which I would like to sell at the flea markets over here. Will do some research during the next few days. *Mr Burns*
Other than that: I spoke my first german sentence to a taxi driver. I asked him if his coffee was good. He answered back, which I consider a success.
Auf wiedersehen!
Times they are a-waitin’
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Gallery opening in Schöneberg
(with other words… I’m now based in Berlin trying out life as a junior planner at AKQA!)
The near…
…experience!
South Korea
Just saw this video by the South Korean agency Cheil that won an award at Cannes yesterday. My god, I stalked this guy from Cheil so much for an internship in Seoul. Really, getting an internship there, or anywhere in Korea for that matter, was a real hassle. I went to Seoul without knowing anyone or anything or any place.
I just knew that I wanted to go a dynamic city that, and I’m sure of this: will be one of our most influential hubs in a couple of years.
A creative director at Ogilvy explained to me at an early stage that it would be almost impossible for me to land a gig anywhere without speaking the korean language. At that time, I could barely pronounce the greeting phrase “annyeong haseyo ” properly. She was right.
I almost gave up after a month of turned down calls, e-mails without replies and mentions on Twitter that remained unnoticed.
Until one day, when someone at one agency finally picks up the telephone telling me “Yes, we are looking for interns… Korean interns”.
I just had enough at that time. I was frustrated with Korea in general. (Don’t get me wrong. I appreciated so many things about the country but the fact that I couldn’t understand Korean was bugging me so bad.) I was an alien, and now I was an unwelcomed alien.
But. The fact that the girl on the phone spoke to me in english (rarely happened otherwise) gave me a ray of hope.
Some people may find it a bit… overhasty to book a flight across the globe without a secured internship. You see, I don’t work that way. I act before I think and I never give up. Thank god, stuff usually works out for me in the end.
I e-mailed the boss at that office for the third (and last) time, saying: “I know you’re only looking for korean interns but PLEASE give me a chance!”. You know, the “all or nothing” e-mail.
Maybe he could feel my desperation. Maybe it was like in that Sex and the City-episode where Charlotte learns that she needs to knock on the door at Rabbi’s place three times for her to be allowed to convert to Judaism.
Thankfully, the boss’s name was Peter Moody and he was in charge of the Seoul (and Tokyo) office of Profero.
A coffee with Peter a couple of days later and BAM! He took me on. For that - I am very grateful.
It’s easy to be all cocky as a Hyper Island student. Because we get internship offers more than once every day through our Hyper mail. We get job offers from great agencies in an instant. Business people who are visiting the school are telling us all the time about how much we are needed out there. But what do they mean with “out there”?
Not Asia. Because we’re nothing over there unless we act up and open up or eyes for other cultures, other languages or other types of thinking. I can’t say that I understand nor speak Korean after spending three months there. But I learned so much more than that.
Like how to not think Facebook campaigns and how to think Cyworld and Twitter. How to think DaumTV instead of Youtube. How to think Naver and Nate instead of Google. (And 1000 000 0000 other stuff about living abroad/life etc etc)
The girl in the phone turned out to be Kate, the lovely Human Resources manager who I got to appreciate a lot. From my time at Profero I did not only get to learn a zillion new things, I (as cheesy as it sounds) also got a couple of great friends.
Thank you all the people at Profero!!
Ending with one of my fave K-pop tracks:
