Friday, November 12, 2004
Good morrow
No, I'm not a Renaissance Festival person. Never will be either, but I had to read alot of olde english and middle english in high school and I guess some of it stuck.
Hmmmm, I was going to post on my strange facial hair patterns, but now I'm inspired to tell you about a past job. So my facial hair can wait, and I now have time to post some pics of my facial hair. Actually it's my brother's facial hair but ours is exactly the same, and you can judge for yourselves if him and I look like twins.
So I worked one summer, the summer preceding grad school, for an advertising company. *Yawn* No wait, it gets better. This advertising company had been hired by Red Bull North America Inc. to educate consumers about their product. Personally I love Red Bull, the company and beverage. Their marketing strategy is to start on the street. In new markets they send out Consumer Educators, me, and hand out cans of Red Bull to people "who need energy". So basically we drove around in a rental Camry, why? because we were supposed to get a cool Red Bull truck with the giant can on the back from ATL but it was in an accident and didn't make it. So we had the Red Bull Camry and drove around to different places handing out Red Bull and educating consumers. Telling them why it's good, what's in it, what all that stuff I just said really is, etc...
So one day we're in Homewood, small suburb of Birmingham and home to my grandfolks, and drive past one of Homewood's parks. I spy with my little eye some people fighting with swords and helmets and shields. HOLY SHIT! Stop the car! So we pull a Uey? U-turn and head back to the park. It's some real live medieval reenactors complete with chainmail, broadswords, daggers, maces, and various other weapons that D&D players dream about, or other weapons about which D&D players dream. (Thanks Catt!) And they are sweating up a storm. So they obviously need some energy. So we bust out the camera, take some action sword shots, Red Bull flows from the heavens and all is well in Oxmoor Park in Homewood, Alabama.
But I loved Red Bull before I started working with them, and still love it. They only sponsor "extreme" athletes. Basically if you don't play a major sport, you might get sponsored by Red Bull. And as I understand it, if you are sponsored by them, they pay for everything and you just have to do your best and wear the blue and silver and the red bull with pride. They sponsor car racing teams, No not fucking NASCAR, motocross riders, kayakers, kite surfers, wind surfers, etc. I'll link the list here.
Sponsored Red Bull athletes by sport they even have a breakdancer and bull riders, how cool is that!
So that is why I love Red Bull, the energy drink is delicious and yummy and crack in a can, and sugar-free now too and tastes exactly the same, and they sponsor some great athletes in sports that otherwise would get no recognition.
And I should've stolen that Red Bull hat cuz they also don't have any purely Red Bull apparel. Only Consumer Educators and sponsored athletes get to wear Red Bull clothes. Put that on my lifetime regrets list.
Hmmmm, I was going to post on my strange facial hair patterns, but now I'm inspired to tell you about a past job. So my facial hair can wait, and I now have time to post some pics of my facial hair. Actually it's my brother's facial hair but ours is exactly the same, and you can judge for yourselves if him and I look like twins.
So I worked one summer, the summer preceding grad school, for an advertising company. *Yawn* No wait, it gets better. This advertising company had been hired by Red Bull North America Inc. to educate consumers about their product. Personally I love Red Bull, the company and beverage. Their marketing strategy is to start on the street. In new markets they send out Consumer Educators, me, and hand out cans of Red Bull to people "who need energy". So basically we drove around in a rental Camry, why? because we were supposed to get a cool Red Bull truck with the giant can on the back from ATL but it was in an accident and didn't make it. So we had the Red Bull Camry and drove around to different places handing out Red Bull and educating consumers. Telling them why it's good, what's in it, what all that stuff I just said really is, etc...
So one day we're in Homewood, small suburb of Birmingham and home to my grandfolks, and drive past one of Homewood's parks. I spy with my little eye some people fighting with swords and helmets and shields. HOLY SHIT! Stop the car! So we pull a Uey? U-turn and head back to the park. It's some real live medieval reenactors complete with chainmail, broadswords, daggers, maces, and various other weapons that D&D players dream about, or other weapons about which D&D players dream. (Thanks Catt!) And they are sweating up a storm. So they obviously need some energy. So we bust out the camera, take some action sword shots, Red Bull flows from the heavens and all is well in Oxmoor Park in Homewood, Alabama.
But I loved Red Bull before I started working with them, and still love it. They only sponsor "extreme" athletes. Basically if you don't play a major sport, you might get sponsored by Red Bull. And as I understand it, if you are sponsored by them, they pay for everything and you just have to do your best and wear the blue and silver and the red bull with pride. They sponsor car racing teams, No not fucking NASCAR, motocross riders, kayakers, kite surfers, wind surfers, etc. I'll link the list here.
Sponsored Red Bull athletes by sport they even have a breakdancer and bull riders, how cool is that!
So that is why I love Red Bull, the energy drink is delicious and yummy and crack in a can, and sugar-free now too and tastes exactly the same, and they sponsor some great athletes in sports that otherwise would get no recognition.
And I should've stolen that Red Bull hat cuz they also don't have any purely Red Bull apparel. Only Consumer Educators and sponsored athletes get to wear Red Bull clothes. Put that on my lifetime regrets list.
# posted by Seth @ 7:06 AM 
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