Andy looking surprisingly good in lurid green

Big congratulations to Andy who completed his second Great North Run yesterday, raising £480 for Leukemia Research UK. Shaving five minutes off his 2008 time, Andy completed the half marathon in a highly respectable 1 hour 57 minutes.  He finished in 9,819th position, leaving 44,181 other runners behind him in the dust.

We’re impressed, despite the fact that he was overtaken by someone wearing a Scooby Doo costume on the home stretch!

Thanks to everyone who sponsored Andy  and don’t be surprised if he tries to hit you up for some sponsorship for next year’s London Marathon ….

NZ tennis players, like Brett Steven, know short = sweet!

As we turn up the radio coverage of Andy Murray playing Andy Roddick in today’s Wimbledon Semi-Final, I have a confession to make.

I have very mixed feelings about tennis. Basically, I find it inexorably dull. However, I can handle watching matches where one player absolutely whips the pants off another – like when Venus Williams beat Dinara Safina earlier in the week – because it means the games are really short (53 minutes).

What I cannot stand is a) actually caring whether one of the players wins (and therefore being emotionally involved) AND b) the game taking a long, long time to play. Andy Murray requiring five sets and four hours to win against Stanislas Wawrinka in the fourth round of Wimbledon would, therefore, have been an excruciatingly painful experience … had I been watching it. (I wasn’t.)

With cricket, you know you’re in for the long haul, and can gear up accordingly. You know it will take all day (or five days) to play so you don’t feel the need to stay glued to the radio or TV. You can go to the loo, or to the fridge for another beer, fairly safe in the knowledge that the game won’t be over by the time you get back.

But tennis. Well. The shortest Wimbledon match ever involved one of my Kiwi compatriots – Brett Steven – who put his back out in the first rally of a doubles match in 1995, thus ending the game after mere seconds. Compare this to the game Todd Perry and Simon Aspelin had against Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in 2006, where they lost the Wimbledon doubles quarter final 5-7 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 23-21, after being on court for six hours and seven minutes. That’s just ridiculous.

And now I find myself tuning in to Murray and wanting him to win. If I hear the words ‘tie-break’, ‘7-6’ or ‘sixth set’ within the next one to six hours I shall scream.

I came across a great site recently called datelance.com. In essence it’s a marketing site for a US design agency, dressed as an earnest attempt to find one of their employees – the eponymous Lance – a new girlfriend. Apparently he’s the only single person at Logoworks, and his colleagues are keen to get him hooked up. Within the FAQ section of the site you’ll find a very pertinent: “Is Lance desperate?” question, which is answered with “Lance is definitely not desperate”. Phew.

Anyway, the good news is that bda has its very own Lance. He may not have a Harvard MBA, but he does look good in a dinner suit. His name is Adam. We haven’t built him his own dating website, or created an advertising billboard, but if you are interesting in dating Adam, you can always drop us a line at ideas@thinkbda.com and we’ll make sure he gets your email.

A little bit early for Christmas, but a fun game anyway.

Well we’ve managed to do it, bda’s new website is now live, yet still not complete and likely to always be a work in progress. But, then that is a good summary of most of today’s sites.

I hope you like what we have put together. We feel it gives you a better view of us, our work, our personalities and our inspiration.

We’ve been making lots of changes at bda to improve every facet of the business both internally and externally, we hope you like what we’ve done.

Have a look at our portfolio, our news, blogs, moodboard, profiles and do let us know what you think, and make sure you keep coming back!

Will write again soon!