Here are some pictures. The sweetshop owner is called Birju. This is the guy who found himself in the middle of the lorry crash but who emerged with a smile on his face. Kindly and miraculously he has also offered to put me up in his apartment while this whole mess gets sorted. It is unclear at this point whether the authorities are keeping me around as a witness to the accident or because they think I somehow caused it. Yes, I was near (but not IN) the middle of the road taking shots on my “lomo” when it happened but the driving was pretty crazy anyway. The other photo is of Birju’s neighbour’s textile factory. His name is Kabir and yesterday he let me sweep up the entire shop floor. More shots to follow. The team back home are encouraging me to shoot as much as I can
and there will no doubt be plenty of visual texture to add to the India campaign.
I believe the rest of the shoot is going OK, somewhere else. I have missed out in one way, but in another I find myself to be incredibly lucky. This morning I watched a monkey jump up and down on an awning as if it were a trampoline. He looked over at me and made a gesture as if to say: What? Then carried on.
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Birju

Thank you Tom/Brett/Molly for your calls and the instructions and for wiring the money out. You’ve saved my life but as I say I’m not sure when I am going to be able to make it back. The consulate still have my passport and for now I am staying put. Still, and you’ve got to look on the bright side, it’s warm and things are more or less OK. For anyone else reading this, I am still in India having been separated from the main crew after a mix up in Mumbai city centre caused by (of course) a giant milk transporter crashing into a sweet shop at what seemed like their equivalent of oxford circus. To add insult to injury I hate milk and gag whenever I see it and there was loads of it all over the place and in the heat it was rank.

Anyway, I will be staying put until monday
at least. For some reason the police thought I was in some way involved. Anyhow. Here I am. I missed the shoot. But I suppose it is cool!
I met a man two hours ago who could imitate voices perfectly. I got him to speak to my mum on the phone.
Bye for now. It’s hot.

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I have arrived in Mumbai and have been separated from the main production team. It is very exciting and yet slightly daunting.
Will post shots when I can. Ed/Molly/Leo/Emily, if you are reading this can you call me on my UK mobile please as a matter of urgency.
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This a quick thank you to Ed who has introduced me to the music of Pat Benetar.
Wicked.

I have been lucky enough to meet some cool people these past few days.

Jason Holroyd who has been in designing some motion graphics work for a super secretive pitch that is still going on now. Jason is from Nottingham and does cool work out of his studio/massage grotto. Have a look at his Bob Dylan video on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNZuTWikSXw

Also the Superfad boys who have been loitering about with their beards and expensive footwear. I have had some very good advice from both groups, mainly about scarves and whether it’s OK or not to wear boat shoes still. Most think it is not OK.  

Been in an edit over the weekend on 3D season and if I see another pair of 3D glasses (I was used as guinea pig for all cuts and one of my eyes has swelled up to twice its usual size and my left profile is now that of a guppy – no joke) I will be angry. Doctors assure me it will go down in time but one of the weird side effects is that now I see EVERYTHING in 3D. Which is useful.

Joseph and Alex were directing and I’ve never had so much fun on set.

It is about this time in the afternoon that cake seems like an option.

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Hasn’t the weather been lovely?
I have been keeping busy and I should say thank you for all the comments that are flowing in. Especially the ones from the Viagra people. You know who you are. I don’t need that stuff. I’m just out of college! I am the wrong target audience – you can’t just send these messages out willy nilly.
We’ve been busy and I’m just back from helping out on a stills and telly shoot for Misfits (I was also lucky enough to see a sneak preview of the first episode which is excellent). I spent most of the time trying to block the sun out from the shot with a bunch of grips who kept making me do stupid things like to and get a long weight. Very funny boys.
Alice was art directing the shoot and Neil was doing the TV. Both are out soon. Look for good sun blocking work, especially in the stills. (I am will try to upload shots later today).
3D season is also in full swing and we shoot two spots this week which should be good. I’ve been designing some 3D glasses with Kevin the designer which are looking fairly rad. They’ll be out soon so grab a pair and think of us when you wear them. There’s a lot of love that’s gone in to them there shades.

Also on the go: Two external pitches that I am not allowed to know about. If I did know about them I couldn’t talk about them on the blog. People are looking excited though and talking about foreign adventure, which seems cool.
Joseph’s ear is getting better.
Emily&Leo and Ita are just back from shooting a spot for Impulse which sounds like fun. They’ve been hanging out with bands and having a ball all in the name of a cool new campaign.
I was not invited, even though I have the skinny jeans and pointy shoes.
I have been eating BLTs this week. They really are good. There is a common saying here at 4Creative that there is very little that isn’t improved by being wrapped in bacon. It’s a good life philosophy.
Sorry for any typos, I am in a hurry. Misfits photo edit happening right now.
Take care and wrap it in bacon.

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