Notes On The KAAA
- 6:00 People are gathering, more and more are coming in … more and more familiar faces, It was almost like a school reunion. “Hey!” was the keyword.
- 6:30 The entrance hall was getting stuffed and nobody is allowed in the main hall. More mingling, more conversations juggling.
- 7:00 They finally let us in.
- This dude is talking in a very “patriotic” way about advertising, It just made the whole “school reunion” experience worse and worse. We were already feeling bored and wanting to get out.
- They award the sponsors, then they traumatize us with a supposedly 1.5 minute silent film showing the logos of the sponsors. The film got repeated like 10 times due some technical difficulties with the audio.
- They grow up and decide to go on with show promising us we will see that amazing film again WITH SOUND after the break or something.
- Some of the winning ads are totally new to me. Aren’t they supposed to be published to be listed in this competition?
- In the public service category Paragon was competing with itself. I was really surprised when paragon won. (see: sarcasm)
- The spot light they point at the winners and pass by at us too almost blinded us, The sound almost fucked up our ears for good.
- who on earth would misspell “Dubai” and write “Duabi”?
- Maybe the same guy who misspelled “Virgin” by writing “Virgen”
- I was commenting (see: dissing) on P&A’s commercial for (Dar Al Istithmaar? the one with the kid and the old man with pearls) … I was saying in a relatively high voice “Oh my god, this is awful … No Lip-Sync at all … lip-syncing sucks”. A minute later they announce the very same ad as the winner, the guy next to me stands up to get the prize (so he was the general manager or the creative director) of P&A comes back … I pat on his back and say “mabrook”, he goes like “the lip-sync was bad” I go “Oh well, …”, he goes “The actors are indian” I go like “Oh really?” he goes like ” … ” I shut the fuck up and clap for the next winner.
- Cigar smell (see: stink) all over the place.
- Saatchi & Saatchi were the big winners.
- Only a handful of kuwaiti companies won anything at all. Caviar Productions won a prize, I don’t know which category though, for Soug El Salmyah Ad. (with the funky indian dude)
- I met a really nice fan of mine, she was taller than me and she was very beautiful. Thank you for making me feel like a rock star for one night and hey I got your email, you got yourself a stalker. ;]
I might/ might not add to this list later.
November 24th, 2005 00:17
what did I tell you
November 24th, 2005 00:35
hehehehe Duabi !! nice one.. and Virgen.. oh well..
i missed u !! and i dont know how u stayed for the whole thing! keep in touch babe
November 24th, 2005 02:04
Interesting, very interesting :r
November 24th, 2005 03:39
hmmm…im glad i missed it then!
Can I say that if u hadnt told me about it a couple of hours b4, I wouldnt have known about it!!! Ive been away from blogs for a couple of days, but I read newspapers, cant remember anything about it!! Add that to ur list of fuck-ups!
November 24th, 2005 12:21
I thought I was your stalker
shame the awards sucked but why did you censor what the lip-sync winner guy said after he said the actors were indian? i wanna knooowww
November 24th, 2005 13:58
Didn’t censor he just didn’t say anything.
November 25th, 2005 01:28
no… it wasnt for dar il isthismar…
November 25th, 2005 05:22
well, what was is then?
November 26th, 2005 00:20
تخيل مسابقة Ø£Øسن مطعم وجبات سريعه..برعاية مكدونلدز
او اجمل سياره…برعاية Ùورد
عادة مثل هذى المهرجانات تنظمها جمعيات غير ربØيه
زين سؤال..
منو كانوا المØكمين؟
و ماهى علاقتهم بالشركات المشاركه؟
November 28th, 2005 20:27
i really feel that the Advertising industry in Kuwait are having a bad time. they are not orgnized at all, and there is nothing worths to get an award.
till now i havent see any creative Ad from kuwait, i dont know where is the problem exactly but this is what i noticed…