Suparama

I know you all are curious, so here it is... I began my job yesterday as did the rest of the world it seemed and at first, I must be honest, I was bored to tears. Don't worry though, it didn't make me want a career change, I just had nothing to do, literally. For about five hours, I sat and surfed the internet, and by that I mean checked my e-mail about 20 times, examined with scrutiny everyone's facebook and myspace profiles, and realized how totally boring the internet is when you don't have a purpose for using it.

After I came back from lunch I was determined to get a task from my supervisor. He's a myspace junkie, constantly looking at profiles and reading messages, rather humorous for an old man if you ask me. The rest of the guys who work there are all very friendly, but very end driven. By that I mean, they keep to themselves and accomplish what they need to get done. It's very admirable, but it made for a very boring and very lonely first day.

I probably came off a bit pushy, but I wasn't about to have an entire day go by without me doing ANYTHING. So after much pushing, my supervisor had me begin concepting some headlines and art direction for a promotional advertisement for the Suparama brand. Warner Brothers is apparently very interested in creating an animated series using Supamonkey (the graphic you see here) and the firm is creating a story line involving him, an archenemy, and a whole other lot of characters. My task was to create a poster encouraging the banishment of electric polar bears. This probably sounds very strange to you all, imagine how I felt when I had to decipher it through a thick English accent.

Today proved to be much more efficient. I printed off my ideas when I got in this morning and showed it to David, he laughed at a few, but didn't have time to evaluate it. I think that was more of a test run to see what I was capable of and hopefully I passed, proving I can handle assignments and deadlines. I spent most of the day designing 9 ad layouts for a promotional ad for the complete box set for series 1-8 of Will & Grace. Suparama does all the UK packaging of the show as well as the promotion of the product, that's where I come in. I pretty much have the layout of the ad down, but tomorrow, I've got my work cut out for me - I have to get creative and funny with my headlines...not an easy task when British humor is so different than ours. I'm excited though, and hey, I can watch the shows if I want to for inspiration, could you ask for a more unique job?

Well I can think of one more unique job... It relates to the show we've recently become reinfatuated with - Power Rangers. I'm not afraid to admit it. We've downloaded quite a few and are thoroughly enjoying watching these old school shows. It helps pass the time and always proves to be a good laugh, what more could you ask for right?