Continuing with the contest stress, I am glad to hear that my friends are out there plugging away on my behalf for the Klondike contest. In fact, my good buddy Yan (3rd from the right in the “friends” eating portion of the video here:
WHAT WOULD JOEL DO FOR A KLONDIKE BAR?
Was able to get me some postings in other blogs, here and here. I don’t know if that means the video has “legs” yet, but at least people are doing there part. (ps, if you go to the site, and are done rating mine 5 stars, feel free to give that stupid chihuahua video a 1. I mean, seriously, hasn’t the ad world had enough Chihuahua’s to last a lifetime?)
Anyway, that’s not the big news of today – the big news of today is that I finally had a phone call to talk details of my upcoming trip to Australia as a result of my Little Penguin Wine Video that won the grand prize of a trip for 2 to Australia for 7-8 days, plus flights, travel, tours through wine country, etc. Should be awesome.
The best parts of the conversation are in video form for you (but I couldn’t make the speaker phone work, don’t mind the subtitles –
So that’s pretty sweet, new iPod. Just got off the phone with my buddy Nathan and we should be aiming for the first couple weeks in August. So this will be another typical August in Australia hanging out with penguins on the islands near Melbourne and such.