“But can he shoot cats?”
Ben Hume-Paton Ben Hume-Paton

“But can he shoot cats?”

Flying the flag! Cannes Special…

Not sure if posting this a day late has completely ruined the algorithm, my career and possibly Western civilisation, but here goes.

Hello gang.

With several of you currently swanning about in Cannes, luxuriating in 30-degree heat — so, basically London with a marina and more sunglasses indoors — I am feeling a massive twinge of:

“Bugger. I should be there.”

Captain @toby Walsham, @janette, @foxy, @nathan perry-greene… I see you. I salute you. I resent you slightly.

I remember my first Cannes very clearly.

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“But can he shoot cats?”
Ben Hume-Paton Ben Hume-Paton

“But can he shoot cats?”

“But can he shoot cats?”

Ben HP’s musings as a director…

Hello gang.

After an ever-insightful chat with the very clever Aaron Hutchinson and after he gave my website the sort of rinsing usually reserved for crime scenes and restaurant chopping boards, I’ve decided to stop telling stories on the Croisette, about the Croisette, and start telling them here.

So here goes.

This week: “We just want to make award-winning ads…”

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