Agency mystery

These beautiful roses appeared this morning on the desk of one of our young ladies in account service. We have no idea who was responsible for them, nor would we tell you if we did. What we do know is that the recipient of those roses currently has a warm 'n fuzzy glow about her.

Attention Human Scum

Wunderman Sydney have turned an initially ordinary eDM letter brief into something extra special. Instead of sending out more of the same marketing material in long copy to the Xbox database about the new Halo 3: ODST game, the team have created an extension of the fictional universe, capitalising on the Halo franchise's cult following.


For Xbox fans, the Earth's communication grid was infiltrated by the evil Covenant aliens to deliver an ultimatum. Surrender, or die. The eDM clicked through to a vidcom message in which a Covenant Elite warrior shows his vehemence for the human race and demands complete capitulation in the face of certain death.

The vile being does offer one option though: join the Orbital Drop Shock Troops and face them on the battlefield where you can earn a warrior's death.

Thanks for the cake Cass

When our data man Dan Wilson told us he was bringing in a treat for us, we were expecting one of his famous data visualisations.

Turns out his wife Cass had decided to put their excess carrots to good use and the treat was this mega carrot cake. Despite its size, it disappeared pretty quickly.

Sydney Dust Storm

It's an unusually eerie day in Sydney today. An inland dust storm has filled the city air with a spooky orange glow. But this is no ordinary dust storm...

Chairs aren't us

I was at an offsite meeting the other day and spotted this stack of broken chairs. Wonder what happened to them? One or two broken chairs I can understand, but a whole stack? Somebody better call quality control and fast.

Nice art direction

We have the pleasure of the company of art director extraordinaire Jane Wong this week. And why do we love working with Jane? Because she's a bloody good art director, obviously, but also because she brings us sweet treats. Like these oh so yummy macaroons.

C-ya

Our Jill-of-all-trades leaves us today and it's like we losing 9 people instead of one - traffic manager, illustrator, editor, videographer, flash animator, personal assistant, producer, creative services co-ordinator, and all round helper.

Carla's penance for moving on was to wear this ridiculous hat but it didn't seem like she took it as punishment. She'll be sorely missed. But remember, once a Wunderkid, always a Wunderkid.

Come back Stan. All is forgiven.

Our man Stan has been out of action for a few days. Hopefully he will be back on deck on Monday to address the pile of briefs building up on his desk.

Accessorise, accessorise

As any twin-set wearing socialite will tell you, nothing goes better with a tiara than a string of pearls. Oh so Melbourne.

We love numbers

We have just spent a special moment together after the recent 12.34.56pm on 7/8/9.
Today was even better, and included a call to Kirsty Mac's sister in London to tell her the time and date here...

Some people are born a Princess

And then others just behave like one from time to time.

Here in Melbourne we now play 'Pass the tiara'.

Doesn't look a day over 40

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Tweedledum and Tweedledummer

We don't know which one is which.

The smouldering expressions are reminiscent of the classic buddy cop shows of the '80s, but that's as far as we can go with insight into this shot.

If you can look beneath the ridiculous beanies that even St Vinnies rejected, you'll notice two muppets. One is Stubbsy, our resident Head of Copy, and the other is freelancer Zed.

We have no idea what goes through their minds. Oh, wait... probably nothing.

Snow Leopard at play

The Snow Leopard is so rarely seen in the wild it has attained almost mythical status. The same can be said for our digital CD Jon Paul Jacques. In fact Jon Paul is so hard to find some days, that he has been christened the Snow Leopard by the our account service team.

This weekend some incredible footage of our Snow Leopard in his natural habit have begun circulating online. This footage is so rare we are unable to post it to the blog. Click here to go take a look.

Before you click we should warn you that this footage is really not suitable for people under the age of 18.