Do you drees to the left or to the right, Sir?

I am right now at the airport in Moscow (cool they have the same WIFI network like in our flat) and I have just been through the safety check. Here in Moscow they have even X-ray scanners for the people... You have to put out your belt and your shoes - so I almost felt naked, but as I saw what the controlling guy saw I felt even more naked...


so now I try to kill some time, still 2h20 till my flight....

Last day in Moscow

Bye bye Moscow

67 days are over now, tomorrow I m flying back to germany. We had a great time over here and got produced some stuff. Now it's time to wait for some other ideas if atleast one of 3 ambient Ideas and a TVC really gets produced, that would be pretty awesome :D Let's see.
Of course here are some new pics from Moscow:

Russian buses on the leash

Saatchi sports

The Yum Yum club where Chris a german guy does invite a lot of famous DJ's

Monster garage Limo for a wedding

When the oven is striking we are frying the fries in the pan

exactly...

I guess some kids get nightmares from this

International evening

This evening was pretty international. At first we saw the first half of the soccer game germany vs. serbia in moscow via internet on a mexican internet stream and after that we met Holger a former Miami ad school student in a german "Biergarten" with a Chinese - New York Photographer and  another russian photographer and art buyer....

Mexican sport moderators are really into - it i just say "gggggooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllll"

Left: Holger who is now working for 2 years at BBDO Moscow 

Right: My team partner Ratko original form Croatia (fits to the international evening)

Ratko and me ate the first time in our life's "Weisswurst"and that in Moscow... Even more strange was for us that it was very tasty 

The two photographers, very funny guys.

Left: Paul Eng www.pauleng.com

Right: Dima Gushchin www.dimagushchin.com

Some impressions

So nothing really new to report from Moscow...ah yeah the sun is shining again :)

I just post some pictures from Romans party - well lets say pics of his flat and just a few other interesting pics.

No I am not taking pictures of old ladies taking a crap...thats the cashier lady. In Moscow there is normally one toilet cabin the cashiers place.....

Art Buyers home what more to say

Switch off the door please

Inspired by Amsterdam I guess

Nails n Cheese

In this tent I ate the first time tongue salad

Honey next to the plane is one free!!!

Looks like a mobile-phone store in germany

Next to Romans flat

Thats how Romans grandfather learned german...

Something with something

Well I recognized that I started almost every headline with some(thing) so why not this time too? Maybe cauz it sux but anyways...

I have some interesting pictures for you about outdoor advertising in moscow.

Viva la communism

Hey lets place a huge display at the river

Vodka Advertising is just allowed in metro station because its "indoor"

But I heard the russian vodka brands are pretty clever and are launching pseudo water subbrands that look exactly the same like the Vodka bottles to advertise it outdoor. I have never seen it maybe its just a rumor

which of these 300 billboards a meter you wanna rent? from a4 to super size

behind the red square

before the red square... I heard the rent cost are ca $ 1 000 000  a month

So Rolex has to sell at least to watches a month :D

unfortunately I cant tell you how much you have to pay to hang up 4 real BMW M3 on a giant billboard... see more pics of it even at night here : 

http://www.brainstorm9.com.br/2008/04/02/o-gigantesco-outdoor-da-bmw-em-moscou/

Something that has nothing to do with advertising

Today we have been to the first concert of "Die Ärzte" in Russia. It was pretty cool the club was quite small, I think round about 500-600 people have been there! Closer you cant get anymore. Not like Rock am Ring :-D .  My pictures are almost all blurry but I also uploaded a video on youtube.

Something that has to do with advertising

Marcus, Felix and me won a golden student ADDY Award for our Smart campaign. You can see the complete list of all winners on this website: http://www.aaf.org/default.asp?id=782#student

Some pics from the red square

Today I am again lazy in writing but finally I uploaded now some of the red square pics i shot 3 weeks ago. So its more the ad part...

Disneyland Moscow

The mausoleum of Lenin

Some things are different

Marcus told me that my blog has way to less copy for a copywriter so I gonna add here my list with things that are different in Moscow compared to germany !

1)    The streets and walkways are very dusty you should wear sunglasses when its windy, but there is almost no rubbish on the street.

2)    Cap drivers drive like hell

3)    You can drive by unofficial caps, just stop a car and give the guy some money (don’t do it without native speakers)

4)    There are more German S-Classes than in Germany – there are in general more luxury and hot cars than in any other city that I have been.

5)    The same is true for chicks - but not for guys (sorry girls)

6)    Without the Cyrillic alphabet you can read almost nothing – almost nobody speaks English outside the agency.

7)    Food especially cheese and meat is very expensive. Bread is very cheap. Mc Donald’s menus are cheaper and a bit bigger J

8)    Mc Donald’s is as huge as the airport in Paderborn

9)    Living in Moscow is expensive in general

10) Cars don’t break at crosswalks – you should do it like the green man on the traffic lights... run

11)  Some streets have 5 lanes in one direction but the Russians use it like 8 lanes sometimes. When on the highway is traffic jam they drive next to the street.

12)  Advertising and billboards are everywhere and sometimes really huge

13) Escalators are much faster than in Germany and better stand the hell right

14) Russian TV is kind of strange they play a lot of American movies often with just one speaker who synchronizes everything. You can still hear the American actors a bit but unfortunately not enough. Commercials are mainly “normal” and not that creative, and/or adopted European commercials. They do strip on MTV at night…

15)  Vodka is cheap (except of imported vodka) - Bacardi 0,7l is about 33€

16) Your apartment got two doors and 5 locks

17)  The heaters don’t have a thermostat so you can’t stop it and even worth you cant turn it on if it’s cold.

18) There is a kind of chute in the stairways – smells often great

19)  Supermarkets are opened 24/7 – very nice

20) Cancer is cheap a pack cigarettes costs 50 Cent

21) Steps are half as high as in Germany – curbs double as high

22) Even the oldest Lada got a car alarm with shock sensors that’s why you hear car alarm systems 24/7

23) Almost every car got black windows

24) Sometimes you see horses on the walkway

25) Using an elevator is always an adventure

26) Problems with cops can be solved by a few rubels

to be continued...

The Sunday trip

Today we met with Roman and Michael to go to the flea market. It is pretty far away from our flat but it was worth it. You see a lot of old stuff and feel a little bit traveled back in time. You can get there also a lot of souvenirs like "matroschkas" and we have seen tones of old war medals, uniforms and even weapons like AK47s. After we discovered this russian flea market we drove to some beautiful metro stations which are also called the palaces of the people. Last but not least we decided to drive to the university. The first policeman didn't let us in but the second one on another gate accepted our "student id's".

Some pictures from the flea market

If you arrive there it looks more like a theme park than a flea market...

Dancing bears still exist, I wonder what PETA says to that...

Here are some nice Metro stations from Moscow

One of Moscow's universities

Strange you just need one Student ID for 4 people

Trying out the cafeteria first. Tea 3,5 rubel + Slice of Citron 3,4 rubel = 19 Cent

The view from the 8th floor. The building got more than 30.