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Skeleton

Excellent brass skeleton sculpture seen in Spitalfields market this morning. Obviously based on Ray Harryhausen's models for Jason and the Argonauts. That scene where the skeletons rise up out of the ground to fight Jason and his men had a formative influence on me as a wee boy.

Ray Harryhausen Jason Argonauts skeletons

I wonder if I can persuade folks that we NEED this skeleton for the office.

Skeleton 2

welcome to martin

Martin Cole

This Is Martin Cole, who we are delighted to be able to say is joining us as Planning Director of Wieden + Kennedy London. He's currently one of the founding partners of Santo London and prior to that he was at WPP, Grey and BBH.
He has produced and presented TV shows for Channel 4 and been a successful recording artist for Virgin. He's an innovative thinker, a brilliant strategist, a good guy and, not insignificantly, he has more hair than the rest of the management team put together.
As well as working out his notice at Santo, he's about to become a dad, so he'll be with us in early December.

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