Wax Communications | 13.10.09

We’re supporting Breast Cancer Awareness week – and if you happen to meet any on of us today, you’ll find us wearing pink.

Our support is in aid of a serious issue, with on average 120 women being diagnosed in the UK every day with breast cancer.

We are holding a cake sale today to raise funds as a small way to demonstrate our support for the charities involved.

Tired of eating at the same places weekend after weekend? Pizza express just not doing it for you anymore?

How about something with a bit more of a Greek drag queen / wartime speakeasy-esc- atmosphere. Well, I’ve found it!

If your looking for a “very” alternative dinning experience and are up for something a lot different – make sure you check out ‘Behind the Pale Blue Door’ at The Pale Blue Door. [5 Glebe st, E8 4BD].

Essentially, part art installation, restaurant, and performance; Set designer extraordinaire Tony Hornecker (who designed the artwork on Bat for Lashes’ latest album) has opened a pop up restaurant in his eclectic abode to tingle both your taste and eyebuds.

Tony draws on his previous experience as a chef to create a delicious experience involving roast beef and arts to create an evening like none other. Just remember to knock three times and wait till a heavily lacquered hand reaches out to invite you in.

The experience is £30 a head and If you are interested in making it an evening email thepalebluedoor@hotmail.co.uk to make a booking.

Peace Out!

Brydon Gerus

Wax Lyrical | September 2009

The September edition of Wax Lyrical, our monthly round-up of all things Wax, is published here.

RRRRRRR, can you believe it’s already that time of the year again!

The summer’s only just coming to a close and already every window display in London will be turning over to celebrate this massively commercial and international event ­ talk like a Pirate Day is finally here!

Although we all know the official day is September 19th if you want to don your eye patch and wooden leg early, thankfully tonight’s your only chance.

Wilton’s Music hall is going to be hosting a good old fashioned Pirate band bash complete with pirate-themed musical shenanigans, hot rum and more shiver me timbers then you can shake a sword at.

Bands that will be rocking the boat are The Pyrates, Seas of Mirth and Dead Men’s Tales so it’s bound to be bRRRRRRRRRRiliant.

So if you’re planning on heading down don’t forget to check out the official talk like a pirate page to learn some lingo and get your grog on - go here!

See Myspace here and here!

Peace out!

Brydon.

NABS | 10.09.09

On Thursday 10th September, 700 industry runners competed in beautiful Regents Park in the inaugural NABS / LGN 5k Run.

Congrats to Brydon, Gee and Chris from Wax, along with the other runners from  Media Square agencies, Twentysix and CMW.

You can see them here … (!)

See the rest of the photos on Facebook.

Culture | 08.09.09

On September 3rd, team Wax Balls literally went ‘Old Skool’ and headed off to Regents Park for an afternoon of fun, frolics and frivolity.

Despite gale force conditions, an impressive 25 competitors took to the start line.

Proceedings were kicked off by a rather half hearted warm up routine, spurred on by the 2 team captains, Anna for the yellows and Brydon for the blacks.

Once ‘warm’ both teams jumped, skipped, ran, and hopped their way through 6 retro races.  Some impressive performances to note were Phil ‘Ussain Bolt’ Pawsey, Brydon Gerus managing to run scarily fast in high heels (had he done that before??!), Sean ‘Wallaby’ Watkins and Gina ‘my boobs hurt’ Bolger.

The yellow team took an impressive lead winning the relay, 3-legged and sack race.

Not to be deterred, the black team made an astounding come back, winning the fancy dress, spinning and egg and (giant) spoon race!

The tug of war was the deciding game – and tensions were high.

The excitement was at fever pitch as Graham struggled to keep both teams in order before dropping the rope.

After a few almighty heaves, team yellow were victorious and held the impressive Wax Balls trophy aloft (many thanks to Sophie for making the trophy in her Dads garage- it was brilliant!)

A special mention also has to go to Chris Vincent who was wearing the only fancy dress outfit (even if the boys did pop out of the barracks a bit too often!), Graham Vernon Grace and his able helper Craig for some great umpiring and to the Wax Live team for organising the whole event and Brydon for his creative genius.

Obviously all that activity made us very thirsty, so we all popped off to the local for a few pints of beer.

Lovely.

Rod Geoghegan | 07.09.90

Whilst digital natives are immersed in the digital space, digital immigrants are still coming to terms with opportunities (and also the technologies).

To this end, Mickey Rooney talks to Ben Stiller about Twitter.

Brilliant.

Rod Geoghegan is Marketing Director of Wax Communciations

Back from a little R&R in the last frontier of Alaska I’m all ready to be back in the swing of London life.

The only thing I’m not so excited about is spending countless lunch hours in front of my screen eating a bowl of curly kale while daydreaming about the glory days of kickstand beer bongs in my days at Uni.

Well thank goodness I’ve found something to do at lunch where I can finally re-live those moments of excess!

Minus the drinking, fancy dress and snogging.

UCL’s Lunch hour lectures which, are just around the corner from us, start again on October 13th and run ’till December 10th.

So make sure you put the dates in your calendar and learn about everything from: the power of Lagerlöf to how the recent new offence of possessing extreme pornography has breached the principle of the right to obscene thoughts – totally what I was thinking about!

Admission is free! With the lectures starting at 1:15 - 1:55 at the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

If you miss one you really wanted to see and just can’t get out of the office you can always watch it

online from 7 days after the event.

So get out there and expand your mind

Peace Out!

Brydon G.

F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi Brazil | 28.07.09

A new campaign to save water has been unveiled by Saatchi & Saatchi Brazil. And you don’t need to understand Portuguese to get the gist …