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Drivesafe, Manchester City Council's road safety initiative.
doodledoMOTION are teaming up with Channel M commercial production to produce some 15 second stings for Drivesafe, Greater Manchester's road safety initiative.
Drivesafe will be sponsoring Channel M's City Life programme and dM have been invited to produce 15sec stings for the show as well as web banners and newspaper adverts.
The sponsorship begins in October so look out for it there, and remember to drive responsibly!
• POSTED BY JAMES
Evacuated from Houldsworth Mill - and James eating his All Bran!
Well, don't worry, we're back now! And all the work is safe!
This morning we were evacuated from our office having ignored the quiet whimper of our inept fire alarm (we shall be enquiring about this!). Why is it that on any given friday at 11 o'clock, no matter how prepared you are, the fire alarm test never ceases to shock you out of your morning daze with the menace of a Joey Barton training disagreement and louder than a Mr Motivator lycra leotard? On the upside it removes the weekly yearning for a sky dive or bungee jump, instead spending our adrenhaline reserves on pretending to be unaffected by the aural assault from our lovely landlords.
But today was different! Today there came a faint murmer from somewhere in the depths of Houldsworth Mill. An alarm as arresting as the tone you hear from a forgotten handset down the back of an old sofa. Oh, we heard it (just about), but assumed someone had got themselves stuck in the lift again, and muttered about the 12 flights of stairs we would have to exit by at the end of our day as a result.
And so it came something of a surprise when our door burst open and we were evacuated from the building. I grabbed the essentials - car keys, laptop, phone and a bowl of Kelloggs All Bran - and we headed down the stairs and outside, greeted by firemen who spent the next half hour playing.
And then with the kind of inevitable anticlimax of an England team heading out of a major competition, the firemen had had enough of this non-event and we all returned to our computers...and started writing blogs!
• POSTED BY JAMES
Old Trafford Cricket Ground
We had an excellent meeting this morning at Old Trafford with Rebecca Trbojevich from the Lancashire County Cricket Club. doodledoMOTION will be working with the club to produce all the videos for this year's Player of the Year Awards Night.
This latest project extends an ongoing relationship with the club that has seen dM produce work for the 2007 awards, a promotional video for the club's website earlier this year, as well as titles and promos for the LCCC television show on Channel M.
dM would like to wish LCCC every success for what's left of the rest of the season!
Beneath the Old Trafford surface
We thought this might be of some interest to LCCC fans (as well as drainage and turf suppliers!)
The site that greeted us at our meeting this morning is probably unique in the last 150 years of Lancashire County Cricket history! The club's perilous league position this year can be attributed - in part at least - to the appauling weather conditions this summer. Over 90 hours of cricket have been lost to the British precipitation, and as a result the club have decided to invest over £600,000 in a drainage system similar to the set-up at Lords.
After rain, the field should be playable within half-an-hour... something that North West fans of cricket will be extremely glad to hear. As you can see, the effect on the pitch at the moment is quite immense!
So now you know!