Thursday, July 06, 2006

Da Job

I said that I would talk about my job before and here it is:
I'm working at AOI Advertising Promotion Inc. in Osaki, a part of Tokyo. Right now I'm working in the Kokusai department, which is primarily dedicated to finding and assigning directors to the advertising shoots that AOI produces. This means they have shelves upon shelves of director's reels (a sort of visual resume) that contain a sample of the work they've done. So my job has been to watch the ones that the company hasn't catalogued yet and then input the information into a computer. This lets the company have easy access to what type of commercials or music videos a certain director has done and makes it easier for them find the director they want. I've seen some great commercials so far that I had never seen before. One had Andy Roddick playing a game of tennis vs. pong, another had a man who would wag his arm like a dog's tail whenever he had a miller light beer in it. Check out
http://www.ascheandspencer.com/main/ Go to Spots in the upper list and look at some of the commercials they did the music for. There are some pretty funny ones out there. So I've pretty much been watching commercials and doing a little organizing around the office.
There is one thing that is incredible though. In the bathroom they have a hand dryer that is the coolest piece of technology in the brief history of man. It hangs from the wall and you put your hands into this enclosed area that starts blowing gale-force wind on your hands. The front of the machine has phases that light up to tell you when to slowly remove your hands and when to take them fully out of the machine. It takes like 2 seconds and your hands are totally clean. It's freaking ridiculous. I'll post a picture once I bring my camera to work.
One last thing. I had some sushi from the grocery store downstairs in our office and it cost about $3.50 for an 8 piece roll. It was the freshest and best sushi I have ever had. My coworkers were like "yeah that stuff is ok." and I punched them all in their heads. But yeah, that's a perk. I'm gonna get back to work but you guys stay classy.

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