... friends are forever...

i had to put the amezing work of my friend Beth .. she is so talented... and so nice and so sweet. i wish i knew how to scrap or digi scrap...

Beth i love you so much and i promise i will come visit soon.. i wish we could live closer.. but honestly inside i feel closer to you then most people here (that i see everyday)...
i love you

.. the final product..

and here is the final cut of our commercial.

it is a parody of Croatian tourist board commercials.. so it is purposly so cheesy, bit trashy and 80's like.. the end tag line says "Small country for a great beer". a very famous tag line of croatian national tourist board few years ago was "Small country for a great holiday". to sum it up.. we play with all that croatia is famous for: great historical monuments (nad we see chinese ppl taking pic of beer), then quality wine (and germans toast w/ beer), them maritime treasures and we see czech's chilling beer in the sea, sport talents (old people playing Bocca), croatian hospitality (native stealing last beer from tired tourist), and summer temps of 3 celzius (reffering to cold beer)

my mpg is low resolution since it was just one for clients approval but you can see what we have in the end

.. don't dance too fast..

This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.
She wants to see how many people get her poem.
It is quite a poem.


Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a
butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Tim e is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Because you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

work work work....

work work work is actually the moto of BBDO worldwide.. and last few months i learned it well :)
however i know i have been nagging about all the work i have and stress as well but today i would love to share the fun in what i do.. yes after work work work there comes fun fun fun. and in my business the topping is the shoot of commercials.
it is such fun to actually after months of gruelling meetings wih clients (brief, firs presentation of creative, second, third, meeting with production house, cost estimates, PPM (pre productionmeeting), casting, etc) to actually go and shoot the idea.

well we had shoot two weeks ago.. and it was great. we were shooting at coast we had 6 different locations. 2 in Split (town on coast) and rest on the isalnd of Bol. it was so much fun. yes it was bit hard to shoot from 8 am till sunset but we had so much fun. i was connected on laptop cell phone and screens majority of time but it is so much easier to work when your toes are dipped in sea :). ahhh lovely.

and we had beer stylist from england who was impressed with our shoot. he said the quality was as high as in UK but the people were more relaxed and easy going (hm guess if my commercial was 1.500.000 bristish pounds instead of croatian kunas we'd hae less sense of humor ;))) )

anyways not to bore you more here is the fun in my work..
Shooting of new Karlovacko (beer) commercial for summer campaign 2007


1. first day first scene this is Sinisa our BBDO creative director who thought of the whole concept

2. setting the scene


3. Actors (they were hillarious

4. us the agency


5. moi in my typical pose.. two screens my laptop and my mobile on hand :)

6. photograpfer having a shoot on a set for usage in Print (Maja assisting in purple shirt) this is scene 2

7. day two at Bol.. ah yes i could work in these condition 24/5 :)

8. the beach ...

9. production hard at work

10. and in these conditions i could work 24/7

11. living hard the Director and Cretive director (checking out the models)

12. the Client.. if all were life him life would be a breeze

13. center of Bol.... location of 3rd day

14. last day last scene in a vineyard

15. one song plays in my head when i look at this "leaving the shoot never easy...." P.S. the blues shirt eldery gentelman is beer stylist he has filmed with lots of celebrities (kate moss, D. Beckham, etc etc)


can't wiat till next shoot.. I just need to survive months in between :)