Woo, Sydney! We hit that joint like there was no tomorrow, with John Kane from Happy Soldiers (http://www NULL.happysoldiers NULL.com NULL.au/) in tow. He made a pretty good impression on all that attended. Look at all those rad people hanging out! Look at all those plants! We like plants! As an aside, we can’t believe we even had a hand drawn chalk sign. We think that’s freakin’ cool. See you again soon, Sid-knee!
Penny! Like a fresh breeze she sailed in and told us the what-nots, the who-hows and the go-do-its. This super editor from ThreeThousand, the now sadly out of print Is Not Magazine, and writer for The Age is the go to girl for what’s the hip-hop-’n-happening in this town of ours. Penny spent the evening telling us to shut up, speak the truth, and not to use cliches, ever — which, at the end of the day, we think is pretty sound advice.
Junior last Wednesday was pretty rad. We had Jason Ross – the Executive Creative Director of CHE (http://www NULL.che NULL.com NULL.au/) give us 8 tips in 8 minutes, at the grand ol’ time of 8pm. According to the Chinese, the number 8 (http://www NULL.beijingmadeeasy NULL.com/beijing-society/china-lucky-numbers) is as lucky as it gets. So if you happened to find yourself there, be sure to think of yourself as one of the lucky ones.
It’s also pretty darn lucky we filmed the whole thing just in case you missed it.
‘FINALLY!’ We hear you say – ‘Junior events in Sydney’. Yes that’s right, we finally got shit together. And since we kept y’all waiting so long – we got two of the most awarded creatives in the country – Matty Burton and Cam Blackley, Creative Directors at Droga5 (http://droga5 NULL.com NULL.au) to give their 10 tips. But don’t worry if you missed it, it’ll be appearing as an episode of JuniorTV (http://vimeo NULL.com/user2421636) soon.
The next Junior event is in Melbourne on June 16 at the Workers Club (http://theworkersclub NULL.com NULL.au/) in Fitzroy. Guest speaker: Jo Walker, editor at Frankie (http://www NULL.frankie NULL.com NULL.au/) magazine.
It feels great when people show up to the things you put on. We didn’t really ask anyone to come to our inaugural Junior Film Festival last Monday night; we never pleaded or begged or employed henchmen to break knees. Normal, everyday folk, much like you, just started buying tickets until it was sold-out — which probably had more to do with the fact we were screening the seminal documentary, Art & Copy (http://www NULL.artandcopyfilm NULL.com/), than anything remotely associated to us personally. You know, cause just like any troubled human, we hinge our personal worth on the amount of people interested in the things we do.
Then we were going to give free tickets away to our friends, but because it was sold-out, we couldn’t. Then they got reeeeaaal angry. They said, “But you told us you’d give us free tickets!” So we said to our friends, “We’re really, really sorry, but you should have bought a ticket in the first place you cheap, unsupportive inconsiderates.”
Anyway, don’t listen to our neurotic tripe, quite frankly it’s surprising you’ve read this far. And if you have, thanks, we need all the friends we can get after the free-ticket fiasco of 2k10.
The night was a huge success, blah blah blah, Junior goes from strength to strength, lots of people came, press releasey hoo-hah, floop-dy floop-dy doo.
And the whole thing could never have happened without the unending support of AJF Partnership (http://www NULL.ajfpartnership NULL.com NULL.au/), XYZ Studios (http://xyzstudios NULL.com/), and Campaign Brief (http://campaignbrief NULL.com/) — all of which we used and abused for our own gain. We really hope tacking your logos onto things makes you lots and lots of money.
Sometimes a room fills with incredibly creative people and you can’t help but smile. That’s how we felt last Wednesday when Ghostpatrol (http://ghostpatrol NULL.net/) gave his ten tips in, well, a few more than ten minutes. But we were secretly glad it was a little longer — there was something about his chilled demeanor, humility and beautiful illustrations that inspired everyone on a really deep level. Yeah! See what you missed out on! Everyone had a blast, and we transcended spiritually. Can’t get much more inspirational than that.
We’re a bit lacking on the event photos this month. Unfortunately for you, Barrie Barton (http://rightanglestudio NULL.com NULL.au/)‘s tips were too engaging for our photographer monkey to take many photos. But we did manage to snap one of this new fandangled stationery moustache-esque accessory — thanks Notemaker & O-Check (http://notemaker NULL.com NULL.au/collections/o-check-store-at-notemaker-australia-new-zealand)! If you accidentally missed Junior this month, no fear! Stay tuned for JuniorTV’s recap of BB’s 10 tips – coming soon.
Another brilliant Junior event is done, full of incredibly social and interested young awesomes. Andrew Ashton of Studio Pip & Co (http://peoplethings NULL.com/) was an even awesome-er older awesome — he ignored our brief, and told us stories of what inspired him to work. We also got our act together and filmed the thing, so if you missed it you can see it on a screen near you once we’ve edited it up all nice. In the meantime, look at all these kids attentively listening! It’s like a classroom full of learning.
And so it was, on a night of heat and exhaustion, that friends of Junior & Co. gathered for one final time in 2009. There was beer and conversation and pretty people with pretty smiles. Everyone was stirring and gosh were they nice. In fact, it’s definitely safe to say we forced the yuletide out of the closet to announce it’s homosexuality. It was a very gay evening indeed.
Thanks to everybody who has supported us this year, we couldn’t have done it without you. Well, we probably could have, but no one would have looked at our site or come to our events. So from our deepest cockles we salute you, dear readership. We have no doubt 2010 will be the year your dreams come true.
Merry Christmas one and all! We love you unconditionally.
The Juniorinos
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