Huge shiny happy congrats to Peter Ammentorp & Andreas Hoff for winning a Bronze Lion in the Young Lions Film Competition with this pretty little thing. The film was made in 48 hours from briefing to finish. And thanks to the guys, Denmark finally got mentioned on the festival at the big show Saturday night. Im a very proud tutor.

Young Cannes Lions Film 2009, bronze winner from Peter Ammentorp Lund on Vimeo.

8 days in Cannes
1 Bronze in Young Lions Film
1 Future Lions Shortlist
1 food poisoning accident
1 box jellyfish accident
1,5 fainting accident
1 ode to Lektor Kej
3 complaints from angry Spanish neighbours
1 beach party with free food and drinks and Beth Hart
1 beach party with no free food or drinks or Beth Hart
8 guys skinny dipping
0 girls skinny dipping
12 disappointed male Dutch creatives armed with camera phones
1440 pints of beer
2 lucky VIP galla party invites
2 little sleep
and lots and lots of inspiration

Thanks for a lovely week!
Watch this space for more cool KK stuff and for Chris’ film about our Cannes trip.

Rehersal on the red carpet for Cannes Lions 2010, where we all expect to win the Gold Lions.


Eventhough we’re in the middle of the financial crisis, lots of people still showed up for the festival.

Yesterday was a big day on seminars; Future Lions, Spike Lee on user generated content, Eric Schmidt from Google, Goodby Silverstein and more. But the one that truly stuck out was the launch seminar of the climate change tck tck tck campaign. It’s a world wide countdown to the Copenhagen meeting in December. Kofi Annan and Bob Geldof urged the entire advertising business to act now; “Here we have the most creative minds in the world. You are obliged to act.”

Bob Geldof, notoriously known for hating advertising and all commercial bullshit, spoke with such strong and convincing words, that every hungover ad person in the packed Debussy hall sat paralyzed in humble silence. “These are not Bob Geldof words. These are facts. Cold, hard, grown-up facts”.

“Whatever you can think, or dream. Begin it.”

Go support the campaign at tcktcktck.org or timeforclimatejustice.org

Time is running out if we don’t act now. Fact.

How is it possible for FedEx to acheive a silver lion for their box ads, when Aramex already did the exact same campaign?

See the obvious…

I know the entire world is already all over this one, from national television to facebook, but I still need to get this off my chest or out of my head or whatever…

Beach Party in Cannes. Fantastic food, free beer and wine. A nice breeze and the most beautiful waves I’ve seen in a long time – Most people would consider this to be a perfect evening.
Then all of a sudden someone whispers in my ear – “did you hear? Michael Jackson’s dead..” What do you respond to something like that?

Somehow I have the feeling that our crappy “dj” caused the heart attack – An hour earlier he started playing “Beat It”, then after five secs skipped to “Billie Jean”, then to “The Way You Make Me Feel” before settling on “Bad”. What kind of deaf, lefthanded M*F* treats 3 great classics like that?!
It’s bad karma, I think MJ felt it, and couldn’t take the disrespecting treatment.

I know the man hasn’t dropped a hit record in over 10 years, but denying his extraordinary talent is blasphemy in my eyes. As I’m writing this, I am slowly realizing that the man who gave us dozens of outstanding dance tracks, showed us how to moonwalk, and shout out phrases like “HIII-HIII” and “Shom-ooon!” is dead.

I believe Michael had peace in his heart these last months – Not only did he escape the charges of being a paedofile, but his shows in many capital cities were completely sold out almost instantly, even though the man haven’t done a world tour since I was 11. Personally speaking, I think the tour 2009 would have been a disaster, because so many hardcore M.J. fans would realize that their favorite icon had faded out and couldn’t thrill like they wanted him to.

I think it warmed his heart to see the tickets go so fast, to really feel that people still needed him around – Basically, I think that’s all the man really needed to know before he left, and I’m glad my image of Michael Jackson, as The King of Pop, is still preserved and intact.

Michael Jackson, R.I.P.

Thursday we went to the saatchi & saatchi showcase which was one of the highlights of the week.
This was very inspirering. You can watch the Showcase on the Cannes Lions website and on youtube.com/NDS, where you can also vote in the ‘people’s Choice’.
We’ve posted our three favorites here.

Roger Hatchuel Academy 2009

34 students from 29 different countries.

The first days have been very busy, but in the best way you can imagine. We meet 9:30 in the morning and our tutor Clive Challis and the dean Rick Boyko have the whole day planed. Its a combination of seminars, screenings, exhibitions, master classes, training and award shows. And of course… The parties.

This is not a week for a tan or shopping. We get off class around 6-7  in the evening, and then there is the award shows, the dinners and the drinks. It is definitely an intensive week of inspiration, learning and socializing.

So far we have been given lectures from some of the top names of the industry. These lectures are only for the students at the RH Academy.

First there was Michael Conrad, formerly at Leo Burnett, former dean of the academy and now president of the Berlin School Of Creative Leadership. Then we had speakers like Nick Law, chief creative officer of R/GA, Bob Scarpelli, Chairman DDB, Mary Lee Sjonell, executive creative director of Bongo, who told us about storytelling, and many more.

An absolutely great and unique experience.

Charlotte

This evening we headed down to Le Grand Palais for the Radio, Media & Outdoor Award Show.

We could already feel the glamour and excitement walking up the red carpet. We chose the balcony for the perfect view of what advertising has to offer. Among our favourite metal winners were the ingenious “Melody Road”. Where Japaneese road authorities added extra asphalt to a certain stretch of road, to encourage people to drive exactly 40 mph. Consequently resulting in the car producing a calming melody.

Other notable entries were the creative use of media by Nissan to promote their new convertable car. Surprisingly projecting their cinema-ad on the ceiling instead of the screen itself, thereby giving the illusion of looking through an open sun roof.

The grand champion of the night was the outdoor campaign from African Newspaper “The Zimbabwean” printed entirely on actual bills, raising awareness of the historical and ridiculous inflation in Zimbabwe. Inspired by the insight that the bills themselves are even more worthless than paper.