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So another year for Addy’s in Jackson…. and for another year we took alot of awards. Here are our stats:

58 awards (14 Gold / 44 Silver)
Best: Art Director, Copywriter, Broadcast, & Mosiac
2 Gold & 6 Silver were Interactive

So we had a good year… a good party time afterwards!

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Gypsie and I decided to go with the theme of the awards and live it like Rockstars…

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So Saturday night we went to the Addy awards once again and it was more different than the year before.

• 01. Being that not everyone had a place to sit down.
• 02. The food was a bit better than the year before, the shrimp & grits were pretty damn good.
• 03. The judges must have been smoking crack this year… seriously…
• 04. TIGHT quarters… not only could people not sit down, but you could hardly walk anywhere.
• 05. I like the boxing theme, Gypsie and Kelly got in there for some photos, sorry not mud wrestling.

I could go on, but I think that is enough for now. We left the party and hung out at Marc’s “Pub” … Two words, Crowded & Freezing! But when you get a crew like us together the humor starts flying… Fraser + Shelf = Blood.

Then we went to a local bar till 2am. All and all it was a fun night and I quote, “Gypsie and I look like we walked out of a Vogue magazine.”

Thanks for the photos Tate!

UPDATE: (We didn’t do as bad as I thought…)

“The Jackson Advertising Federation awarded Maris, West & Baker (MWB) 16 Gold and 11 Silver ADDYs at the 2007 ADDY Awards®, continuing the agency’s streak of winning more gold awards and more awards overall than any other agency in the competition.”

So the word is out now! I got to meet and skate with Rob & Big tonight at Doc*36. More on that later…

Update:
It was an interesting night, Rob & Big showed up to film for the second season of the show Rob & Big on MTV. I got to have a good conversation with Chris “Big Black” Boykin and skate with Rob Dyrdek for awhile why he was trying his tricks for the video. They turned out to be really cool guys and I would hang with them again anytime.

Same night Patrick Melcher & Danny Gonzalas showed up as well to ride the skatepark before their demo the next day… Danny accidently left his board at the skateshop they were doing an autograph signing earlier that day because they rushed them out of the store… So I got to skate a little with them some…

Some photos:

Those Tenacious D boys have created a masterpiece once again with their new movie. Featuring (of course) Jack Black & Kyle Gas and Sasquatch!!! The story unfolds with a band trying to make it big, but need the pick of destiny. This is SURE to be one of the funniest pieces of work you will ever see!

Movie Website:
 http://tenaciousdmovie.com/

Music Video:
Watch On YouTube