kansas city report

So, I've been having an excellent couple of days in Kansas City. Dave and I came out here to do some stuff for the Barkley Evergreen Creative Symposium. Every year they close the agency for two days and get all kinds of speakers in to inspire and excite the whole company. Very good idea. The venue was much cooler than the usual life-shrinking hotel basement conference facility. It was this old theatre place, the stage looked like this:

Kind of intimidating. We watched a bunch of the speakers yesterday and worked out what we were going to say. Then we met up with John January from American Copywriter and recorded a podcast which was  a big highlight for me. What a splendid fellow he is. Though I suspect he egged me into annoying more people with my podcast contributions. Dinner that night included the irresistible Ze Frank who is both more and less manic than he seems from The Show.

Kanas City coffee morning was a resounding success. I was joined at an early hour by Andrew and Bruno, both from SHS. Very kind of them both to keep me company.

Dave and I did our thing, which seemed to go OK. The Barkley people were really smart and enthusiastic, great for working with. Hope they enjoyed it. Big thanks to Jim and Kay for looking after us.

Once we'd done our thing I wondered over to the Nelson-Atkins Museum which I really enjoyed. There wasn't the sheer amount of stuff you get in the great metropolitan musuems but I liked that because it makes you pay more attention to what's actually there.

I noticed this 18th century 'Jug In The Form Of A Bear' which looked exactly like one of these new generation of vinyl toys you'd get from Playlounge or Kidrobot.

And I noticed that this stained glass window appears to show Our Lady practising a googly.

Comments

[Richard Buchanan]

Ze frank rocks.

[Ben]

Love the shuttlecock.

[Bruno]

It was a pleasure having coffee with you, Russell. Hope you had a good time in ol' KC.