24 Hours With… Pia Chaudhuri, creative director, One Green Bean
24 Hours With… spotlights the working day of some of the most interesting people in Mumbrella’s world. Today we speak with Pia Chaudhuri, creative director at One Green Bean.
Morning: Where am I? This is neither a philosophical question, nor a case of ‘dirty stop-out-ism’. Rather, this morning I’ve awoken in an AirBnb in Redfern. My boyfriend and I are staying here while we wait to settle on our first home. I hate it. But I’ll probably still write a rave review when we leave.
On my walk to work, I listen to an episode of This American Life. Ira Glass is quite possibly my hero.
8.00am Wake up as late as possible whilst ensuring I still get to work on time.
9.00am Arrive in the office. Someone has a birthday so we all stand around awkwardly half singing to someone we barely really know.
9.01am – 7pm A blur. It’s all a blur of disaster, triumph, fear, bravery, authority, helplessness, creativity, hope, friendship, hatred, inspiration and chore. I’m scared, ebullient, and I am five different people in the course of one day. Most everyone I know feels the same.
7.30 pm Get home, order food and do as little as possible on my sofa.
10pm Read a ridiculously curated post on an industry website, clearly meant to cover selected areas that require some
PR around them, from an agency type who uses more superlatives about co workers than I have ever read before. Understanding that this is calculated PR from an agency, still wonder if the agency has any self awareness and understanding of their place in the industry let alone the world. Decide that the word braggadocio is my word of the day. Create a response meant to inject some humour and reality, and perhaps even ensure some introspection by the PR agency. Goodnight.
Likeable person. As @My Day highlighted, a bit contrived.
But my reason for posting is really to ask, to beg…bring back Kerwin Rae!! Why can’t we have 48 hours, or even a whole week, in his life? Please.
The Maurice Blackburn video is spot on and so powerful. Congratulations on capturing the spirit of social justice so well.
24 hours with…..is my favourite part of mumbrella. Sure it has an element of self/agency promotion. But it takes guts to put yourself out there. Good on you Pia and keep them coming mumbrella!