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      CommentAuthorm_xl
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2010
     
    Hi everyone,

    A friend of mine asked me to spread the word, as he's working on a Nokia internet ad that requires three couriers riding fixed-wheel bikes. It looks like it will pay £300 each for around 1.5 days' work. Boys only I'm afraid.

    Casting is this Thursday, the ad's shooting later in the month. I've pasted all the details in below. I don't know much more than this, but if you get in touch I'll try to help out. Better to talk to the casting director.

    Cheers

    Max

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    Max,

    The project I spoke to you about is a for a Viral for Nokia to be directed by Ed and Rory McHenry.

    Anyone interested should send a head shot and a full length shot (preferably with Rider and bike), along with their contact details to the Casting Director who will arrange Casting times. This required a commitment to a days filming ( it will be a part of that day) and a half day rehearsal ( dates tba).

    Shoot Date is one of either: 20th , 26th or 27th. Anyone interested should make it clear if they cannot make any of these dates.

    The Casting Session is to be held at Mission in Mercer Street , Covent Garden, in the afternoon of Thursday Sept 2nd. Tree will arrange the times of the call so Head shots and pictures of Courier with bike to be sent to her email address below.

    casting@treepetts.co.uk

    Tree Mob: 07966283252


    Casting Brief: 3 x COURIERS. Serious, fit looking and lean. Male. All ethnicities. Need to be good on fixed wheel bikes and own/ supply bike.

    Rates: £ 300 to include buyout and filming and possibly 1/2 day rehearsal if needed. To be filmed in London. If we travel beyond London we will pay for travel expenses.

    Usage: On the internet as a viral and a single projection screening event at the handset launch.
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    sexist wankers
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    is it white people only as well you bastard?
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    i mean obviously you have to say "all ethnicities" to avoid getting in trouble for some contravention of the 1976 Race Relations Act... but that's just a formality in reality
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    Why are you abusing the messenger, when you should be phoning or emailing the originator?
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2010 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2010
     
    @breadpeddler
    fucking shut up.
    the way things are going right now, i wouldnt mind 300 for 1.5days work.

    and why do you assume they are white?
    that comment makes you just as racist.

    or did you get a knock back?
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      CommentAuthorm_xl
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2010
     
    Hi all,

    No, it's not a joke. I'm just passing on a request. I agree about the male only thing.

    I could just put it up on the fixie forum, but I thought that seeing as they wanted couriers, I'd post here and ask Winston to post on the muppet league. I asked Bill, he said it was cool to post.

    At least they seem to be paying decently - why let fakengers take the money?
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2010
     
    I dont think i would be suitable...but good luck, good money.
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    Hang in glib delight, fucker
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    bread pedaler

    "Hang in glib delight, fucker "

    you are a cocksucker, but you think you are hunter s thompson

    long live the internet
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    "i mean obviously you have to say "all ethnicities" to avoid getting in trouble for some contravention of the 1976 Race Relations Act... but that's just a formality in reality"


    He said "boys only". Im sorry DedPed but however much I enjoy your blog/comments here, thats out of order. Where does ethnicity come in to this??

    A boy can be black, white, brown, or green ect. How come your invoking the race relations act of 1976? I for one did not notice any racialy motivated discrimination in the request for couriers to participate in this ad?
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    I can recomend the following for a "chip on the shoulder" fix: monocalcium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate and calcium carbonate.

    Might do you some good...
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    I think he was being over the top/facetious.
    But basically like a snaggle toothed courier chick what he really wanted was a shot at fame, impossible not to say something.
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    "like a snaggle toothed courier chick what he really wanted was a shot at fame"

    LOL

    But no need to bring race into what was an innocuous request for a courier to star in a bullshit Nokia ad.
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      CommentAuthor1+1/8
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2010
     
    fuck nokia
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    hang in glib delight nokia
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      CommentAuthorzerofivezero
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2010 edited
     
    Maybe DedPed/BredPed should be known from now on as "Snaggle tooth"? (until he renounces his racist ways)

    (I take real offence to this, if you are a "boy" whats the difference in what your skin colour is?)
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2010
     
    "Boys only I'm afraid."

    I called the casting director yesterday and I was told they want a female courier too.
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2010
     
    Iv got some wigs if you want em?
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2010
     
    @breadpedler
    just because your mum drives a tractor
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2010
     
    "Iv got some wigs if you want em? "

    Sweet,Redrum never returned my ginger wig.
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    Look I'm just trolling OK. Wasn't intending to shoot the messenger.

    The add is sexist, though.

    The reason I brought race into it is because, well, what would the reaction have been if the ad said "white people only"? I'm sure people would have been pissed off if it did. So why is it OK to discriminate against women but not coloured people?
    • CommentAuthorredrum
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2010 edited
     
    overdrive...i left the wig at your mums house...
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2010
     
    I think asking for all ethnities might have been more to say..everyone is included.
    Live in another country for more than a couple of years and even though you might start supporting the local team, get used to their beer and even pick up the accent, there is always a small part of you that remains seperated(my experience), and racism is not just a european white scurge. Its happening all over the world, most are guilty. Just look at the news.(not the bbc)
    And Im not white nor a euro, I do have a penis and I reckon in some eyes Im already guilty.
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    "And Im not white nor a euro"

    I think you're a thief.
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    You've stolen my heart.
    • CommentAuthordazzler
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2010
     
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    "I think asking for all ethnities might have been more to say..everyone is included."

    So you clearly missed the bit that said "boys only". i.e. "no girls". i.e. not everyone is included. You thick twat.
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    Bread Pedaler

    you again...

    go Hang in glib delight (fuck off)
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      CommentAuthortf_rj
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2010
     
    I agree with the spastic - using male actors to play male roles is a disgraceful practice that must be stamped out. They're like Hitler crossed with that guy who knocked up his daughters a lot.
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    I am thinking of applying for the new tampon ad where a beautiful girl on rollerskates gets pulled along a beach promenade by a deleriously happy dalmatian.

    I've decided that I want to be the dalmatian and I'm recommending my pet hedgehog for the role as the girl..
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    Oh, sorry. Didn't realise that couriers could only be male.

    My apologies for failing to realise this most obvious fact.
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    "I agree with the spastic - using male actors to play male roles is a disgraceful practice that must be stamped out. They're like Hitler crossed with that guy who knocked up his daughters a lot."

    Seriously - riding a fixed wheel bike (or any other kind of bike) is a 'male role'?

    You MASSIVE fuckwit.

    What is gender-specific about riding a bike?
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    bread pedaler

    thanks for clarifying, we now all think you're a genius.

    you massive fuckwit
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    Can you guys pack it in now, or at least stop hurling abuse at each other? It's boring.
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeSep 6th 2010
     
    they started it.

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