Last week Paul was ready to leave the studio for the day and had to go on the hunt for Tugs. He searched high and low without any success until he heard some rustling upstairs near the bathroom. Assuming Tugs had found something interesting to play with, Paul decided to check the bathroom.

Once in the bathroom, Paul hears the rustling again but this time in the storage closet. To his surprise instead of Tugs, Paul finds a baby Opossum. Now most everyone would have probably screamed and ran away, especially when they were expecting a cat but not Paul. He gathered himself, ran downstairs to get his camera and some towels to grab the little guy with.

He picked up the baby Opossum and managed to get him out of the storage closet. Once downstairs, the Opossum squirmed free and had the run of the studio for a bit but Paul got some great shots as proof of his brave tale.

GCI has a lot of June birthdays so we like to celebrate them all at once at what we like to call ‘Junetasum’. This year to commemorate the birth of Jenny, Sandy, Paul & Carly, the GCI team headed over to The Mayan for a delicious Mexican lunch and then returned to the studio for Connie’s made-from-scratch vegan red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting & vanilla ice cream. The highlight of the event was when Sandy jumped up on a chair at The Mayan wearing a sombrero! Sorry there’s no pictures of that, they would be too hot for our blog anyways. Needless to say, it was a great way to celebrate birthdays!

- Carly

When asked by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission for help on the new distracted driving campaign, GCI jumped at the opportunity to help warn others about the dangers of using a cell phone while driving. The team went to work creating a strong logo, web presence, and informational rack card after diligently researching case studies and reading stories after stories of heart-wrenching tragedies caused by distracted driving. GCI also utilized social media as a communication tool by creating a Facebook page to help notify and engage with the public. The goal for each piece is to inform and save lives.

Check out these links to get more information about the new law:

www.texttalkticket.com

www.facebook.com/texttalkticket

It's fool-proof! If the phone rings, I'll wake up!

-Paul

On our homepage, you’ll find an icon to sign-up for our G-whiz e-blasts (which are pretty much incredible.) If you aren’t getting them, then you’re only getting half the impact of some of our blog posts!

What else? Our portfolio is continuing to grow. You should be sure to take a look at some of the slick design work that has been happening around GCI.

Bottom line? Don’t be a square! Click the GCI logo at the top of the page and get ready for some awesomeness.

Paul thoroughly enjoying his ribs

With it being such a beautiful day, a brave few decided they would try out their rafting skills out on the lake. The challenge was that not only was the water chilly, but we only had access to old cheap floaties that hardly any of us could fit on. Enjoy the hilarious videos of our attempts!

The First Attempt at Rafting

Justin holds the rope

Carly’s attempt

Captain Donnie!

After the fun of rafting we headed back for some intense ping-pong action. A few rounds later, we decided that regular ping-pong was not enough of a challenge. Being the creative folks that are, we kicked it up a notch by playing with seven people at a time and with random items we could find in the garage. Enjoy the madness !

Ping Pong

Ping Pong 2

Ping Pong 3

GCI Pong

- Carly

Also in England we had a dry cleaner who delivered door to door. The shop was called “Smart Alex” after the owner, Alex. This being England, the name referred to a “snappy or sharp dresser.” Part of their schtick was to deliver the dry cleaning dressed in a tux. A guy used to ring my doorbell at about 6PM dressed in a tux, complete with tails, dry cleaning in hand. I didn’t make the association right away. I used to think, “Wow, this guy has quite a social life, always going off to formal affairs after he does his deliveries.”

Our Facebook page is getting a makeover and you know you want to see it!

Be sure to log on and “like” page to be kept in the loop of everything advertising, check out our great albums, join in on hot discussion topics & more.

We absolutely practice what we preach! We have several clients who are on Facebook & it’s doing wonders for them. Have you thought about getting your business on? With over 400 million active users and people spending over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook, as a marketer it’s quite simple. You go where the people are. Call me today & we’ll get started.

- Carly

Check out this photo, then walk-no RUN to the donut shop (you’ll need the cardio) and get yourself one!

-Paul