This blog is basically a place we do posts and podcasts about events or meeting production. We also like to interview different perspectives of the event industry. Yet I find myself thinking about themes and stories constantly. When any production company is producing creative for events and meetings they try to push for engaging audiences though storytelling. To spark ideas we should look to real life.
I live in an affluent neighborhood of Oakland California. The Oakland Hills. I go to a gym in either Oakland or Emeryville every morning (same climbing gym company) This morning I had to write a particularly crappy email to an organization I was bowing out of. So I was in a kind of mood which matched the gray sky.
As I drive to the gym, I go by some insanely large rich homes and then through some really bad neighborhoods. I also drive by a very successful business area. The movie studio Pixar, the huge pharmaceutical campus of Novartus to name a few of the businesses. It is also hugely multicultural area. I have seen lots of hipsters, hookers and once I saw a guy who had just been shot. So it is always seems to be a visual adventure everyday.
So this mornings drive at 7:30am I stopped at a red light, a young mother sipping a can of Sparks (caffeinated alcoholic drink) out of a straw in a paper bag walked in the crosswalk with two small kids, like 4 years old each. They all had just come out of the corner Liquor store and the two were happily eating two bags of Fritos. Made me sad for these little kids who seemed to be doing ok as they skipped across the street. Breakfast of Champions I guess. I have no idea maybe they ate already…this was a treat of some kind.
I moved on down the road, past PIxar, the little diner that the guys from Green Day own. As I came near the Novartus campus many huge white film industry trucks were parked everywhere. I see a bunch of people standing there near the movie star trailers. One is Clint Eastwood and I also saw Matt Damon who are shooting a movie.
You know what went through my mind?
I wonder what they had for Breakfast.
Photo credit- SpiritualMonkey
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