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.