I am inedbted to Doug Cook for spotting and sending me this. It’s a recruitment ad for the very early days Leith Agency. I was an account man there at the time. The shot was taken from an award winning press campaign (I was the account handler) for The Edinburgh Club. The original ad that the photo derived from featured an exaggerated ‘before and after’ comparison. Naturally, I was the ‘before’.
Anyway the Leith recruitment ad was essentially saying we want account handlers who are prepared to get their tits out.
It worked.
I left six months later to set up 1576 with Adrian and David.
That’ll teach ’em to give me a public profile!
Here it is at a more browser friendly size.
In your hairier days.
I knew someone would spot that…
Thank God Doug didn’t find the DPS version….
Oh very funny. My readers don’t know what a DPS is. They don’t exist any more.
ha. i’ve still got the poster on my bedroom wall.
Seriously dodgy male model but a class piece of copywriting.
Never knew I had Meatloaf next door! I see that slimline tonic doesnae work then.
Doug,
Why have you kept pictures of Mark in the buff stashed away in your attic all these years? Is there something you two want to tell us?
Nope. Not me. I didn’t stash them. Doug? Is there something you’ve been wanting to say to me? Come on, out with it…
Gerry. I take it you wrote the copy, you modest old thing.
Brian. May I introduce you to Doug?
Was that just before you gave birth to the twins?
No, just after, you know how hard it is to get one’s shape back. Cheeky bastard.
I found it in an old awards issue of Scotmedia.
Nice one Mark – I remember that. At least you weren’t the person on the bike if I recall that other shot correctly.
I’ve always blamed my avoirdupois on too many pints in Clark’s and then nipping next door to your Dad’s place for a feed…
I could be now though!!!
Never mind your prowess as a model, you are not too bad a the photography lark! want a job
G
Ok. I’m underemployed just now
Underemployed???? With your 20 jobs???? Ha! I don’t think so.
Now now Stephen. You never learned multiple punctuation at journalism school did you.