W+K PORTLAND

We are grateful.

Thanks, Portland Ad Community. We won some awards at the Rosey's a couple weeks ago.

Judges Favorite = Old Spice: Swaggerize Me 
Interactive and Intergrated = Old Spice: Swaggerize Me
Television = Old Spice: Pro Strength II- Doctor and Lord Brian / Nike: Fate / CareerBuilder: Tips
Television Series = Old Spice: Lord Brian, I love you, Seriously, Tony Stewart
 
  
Congratulations to all. Thanks 52 Limited for hosting the After Party.

  

Heavy Metal Band or Soccer Elite?

To help ESPN roll out coverage of the World Cup Draw, our New York office created a heavy metal band called "The Group of Death." For those in-the-know, 'The Group of Death' refers to a nickname to the one group that has more top-ranked teams than the others. (There is 4 teams in 8 groups)

The band reunites every four years and paints their faces the colors of the four unlucky countries and plays original songs like "Welcome To The Group Of Death" and "Your Love Is Like A Boot To The Face." Creating a Facebook and MySpace page, bloggers have all reported great interest. It all culminates with two live shows tonight at Nevada Smiths - the premier soccer pub in New York.

X-MEN ORIGINS: CHEEVER

For everyone who is aware of both Falconer and Angel. 

For those who want to learn about Professor Charles Xavier’s early days. 

For the people who think that a short story can be more powerful than an optic blast there is, “X-Men Origins: Cheever,” Marco Kaye's latest piece on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

As Stan Lee says, “Excelsior!”

Congratulations Marco!

Quack! Quack!

There are a number of working ducks in our building. Lots of emails about getting and selling tickets for the anticipated Civil War game tonight. Prices as high as $225 per ticket! Our New York office did this spot for ESPN earlier this year. Brilliant, even if you are a Beaver. 

WK Holiday Happenings Around The Globe

Please come celebrate the holidays with W+K Portland. Enjoy music, candy and hot chocolate. Stop by on First Thursday and see the magical wonderland that the creative team of Kelly Wright and David Neevel have designed. It's a wonderful holiday experience. Peace and Goodwill to all.

If you happen to be in London during the month of December, please stop by our office window to experience their holiday installation. Happy Holidays!

Introducing the new wk.com- apparently it's date worthy

We launched our new website.

It's meant to be a dynamic exhibition of the work we do as a global agency, starring the people who do it. Content (both advertising and W+K branded) will be refreshed constantly in order to make each visit a new experience.

The site features the latest and greatest work from each office, a random selection of employees from around the world (which will eventually be customized by each employee to link to their individual profiles, art, music and blogs). Just refresh the site and you'll find a new mix of work and people. You can also go deeper and search by client, office or employee.

The other notable section of the blog is WKE, our new network of W+K branded content which features episodic shows, slimemold hour (which plays live from 4-5pm PST) and more.

So please visit. Watch the new WKE programming. Learn some Wiedenisms. Help us make the site better. Did we miss anything? Is something not working well? Give us your comments.

But mostly, we really hope you like the site. Enjoy!

PS. Best site-related tweet so far comes from JoeyB who writes "I would probably have sex with wk's new site on the first date. just sayin"

Thanks Joey B. Wherever you are.

And to all those who made it happen, a special thanks: Dan Wieden, Mark Fitzloff, Susan Hoffman, Bill Davenport, Joani Wardwell, Sean O'Brien, Guillaume Mathieu, Christine Vo, Kiem Vu, Rodney Curl, Colin Black, Janice Grube, Aaron Rose, Ava Hegedus, Josh Perez, Laurie Brown, Dave Ewald, Scott Kleiner, Kris Hanson, Christin Spagnoli, Victoria Krueger, Christine Ellsworth, and the entire W+K global network

Tom Selleck in the House

A few words from Chris Thurman- winner of the "best Tom Selleck" award in the annual W+K mustache Competition. Check out all the winners.

OH WOW

Geesh?

First I would like to thank the academy! i would like to thank all those that voted. I would like to thank all my friends that supported me. My agent. I would like to thank my mom and dad whom without their genealogy this would not have happened.

Most of all I would like to thank my wife who may hate the stache just a little less now; but probably not enough for a winners kiss I bet.

Thank you

PS: next year I will try for the red Ferrari

Portland's got its game on.

Who will be the winner?

Moustaches on the Mind Today

Evan Dumas sent each office a couple of tubs of his famed 'Man's Face Stuff Moustache Wax' to drum up some excitement for the Global WK Mustache Competition.

Evan aka E.E. Dumas and his friend BT Livermore's brainstormed the business this past summer.

We were both fan of moustaches, but we sadly realized there was a limit to how awesome a moustache could be in this town, what with the rain and poor availability of upperlip hairstyling products. The first ever wax made was a Spearmint Moustache Wax made for BT, it had a strong hold, water-resistance (invaluable when biking in PDX), and smelled just like spearmint gum. After that we took a year to perfect the formula, trying out all manner of waxes, oils, and exotic substances. We lived dangerously and used our very own moustaches as test subjects. Eventually the time for experimenting was over, and the wax we sell today is the culmination of hard work and pure love for moustaches the whole world over. 

Our landmark scent "Gin & Tonic" (true to the drink) has got a few others to contend with these days. "All Nighter" has the essences of pipe-tobacco, coffee, and Frankincense (for that feeling of staying up late getting good work done), and "Seasoned Greetings" is a limited edition run of a holiday-scented wax using Peru Balsam, Clove, and ground cinnamon.  Go to www.mansfacestuff.com to keep abreast of future moustache-wax developments, as we're always busy researching better ways to help you wax it up and wear it well."

Follow E. E. Dumas online (twitter, facebook, etc.): eedumas

Eat lots of pie this long weekend.