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Sorry for the hiatus.

Advertising is 24/7; that's 48 hours a day and 14 days a week or at least it feels that way, but gosh darn, is it a great industry to strive for. I hope I can be as good as what I see out there. As my professor/coordinator of my Creative Advertising program says, "If it is to be, it is up to me." I believe that. I must believe in myself if I want to be the best. As I have learned over the course of the past few months, between talent and passion, passion wins out and although I strive for talent, I know I have passion. You have to have a thirst to be quenched; without that, all you have is untapped potential.

A friend once said something that stuck with me:
Dreams are there to be achieved, not admired from afar.

Allow me to introduce my new personal logo. What do you think?

Possible.

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Billy Deals With His Lemons - Director's Cut!
---Over 3 seconds more footage!!!!!!---

For this, I took away one title slide (about Copenhagen Summit being this December) because it ruined the flow of this version of the ad. For this, I concentrated more on putting out what we intended you to see. Nevertheless, I think it still works as an ad to lead you to the petition.

During editing of the first one, it was so hard to cut away a lot of the footage because the more we cut, the less funny it seemed (the original is around 2-3 minutes or something). You'll notice this version is still significantly less than that and that's because the original had a lot of unnecessary parts that we had refilmed to compress the time of the video such as adding a 2 second voice-over that effectively allowed the elimation of an entire 6 seconds. This version is has the stuff we had to cut out before, but doesn't waste time like the original did.

I hope you enjoy this version:

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The Youtube/Cannes Young Lions Contest is closed.
I just wanted to update you on that and say that my ad did not win. I am dissapointed at that but delighted, at the same time, that it made it as a finalist. According to the e-mail, the shortlist of finalists had only 35 ads within it out of an approximate of total 700 entries toward this contest to begin with. I say that's pretty damn good, being in that 5%!! I e-mailed them to try and see exactly where I ranked within that shortlist so if I get that information, I'll let you know.

Thank you everyone who supported my ad. I really really appreciate it! Seriously, you're the best.
For you others who didn't, nuts to you! haha joking..

So I'll keep you posted on what rank I came in exactly if I obtain that information.
Otherwise, here are the winners of this contest:



And here is my entry again. Enjoy:

I hear one of them copies something called "Greentube". I didn't care to look it up but yeah, just putting that out there. Otherwise, congrats to the winners!

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I found this so hilarious and I want to share it!

Fat asian man ftw!

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Please VOTE for my ad - rate it and comment and view it more too!

This was made for a contest where we had to make the ad in 48 hours. It urges us to go sign a petition that will convince politicians our world is worth saving. It urges them to sign an agreement that is probably our best change to curb climate change.

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Follow these steps:

1. http://www.youtube.com/user/canneslions
2. Search "Billy" and click "GO!"
3. Vote thumbs up!
4. Post this on your blog or Facebook too to help it spread!

Thank a bunch!!

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Recently, I've started looking at things a little more closely and have found that some things are just placed oddly...

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....some things are still floating in the air...

...it's both dark and awesome though, and I've played them over and over in my head...

...the world is really different when you look at things under a microscope and if you're as meticulous as I can be...

...you can see so much and appreciate everything so much better, but be aware of seeing things that aren't really there because it happens sometimes, rarely though...

...you'll notice gigantic differences in things you thought were so similar too...

...if you've ever looked at yourself that way, I bet you would find a whole new world that peaks your curiosity, frightens you to death and sweeps you away at the same time. What would you do at this point - explore the cave deeper or walk on by?

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Hope you enjoyed the pictures! I reversed my lens to take the close-up photos - so awesome =)