The management team from head office in Portland are over here visiting us at the moment – Dan Wieden (founder), John Jay (Global CD) and Dave Luhr (CEO). It’s the first time they’ve seen our new offices. Luckily, they like them. They took some time to talk to London staffers about what’s happening back at the mothership in Portland and answer questions.

Dave and Dan (with Kim in background):

Tony and John:

Tough crowd:

Just discovered a bit of banter about this blog at http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001923.html

Some people quite like it, some don’t. Most amusing is Hamish, who says:

What a bunch of Nathan Barley wankers, sitting around drinking free beer that they advertise, and so is hip, fucking Albanian or somesuch…Can you imagine the paucity of ideas from the kind of c—-s that having climbed up to the edge of the shit filled cesspool that is the shrinking London ad scene. these fuckers are the lungfish that live long enough in the dry season.

I can just imagine that they all have real stiffies thinking about how they are kind of on reality TV, but that it is Ironic and hip because its also about advertising. Bet all of those shits have the website on the favourites, and look about once an hour to see if they are on it

Oh, how we laughed.

Now to get back to my Albanian beer.