!SÍMINN!
Segjum sögur, 2013
My first ever TV commercial and it's really close to heart. Síminn, Iceland’s oldest telecom company, did a campaign based on short stories told by people from different eras. The inspiration came from the fact that through the decades we’ve all been telling stories through phone conversations, random stories about every day life. I was assigned to write a story for the concept. After writing down a bunch of them, the one that actually got produced popped up during a Facebook chat with the creative director of the campaign. It was the story of how me and my little brother always pretended that we were our favorite basketball players while playing on a backboard that hung on our neighbours’ garage. I always picked Larry Bird. He always picked Michael Jackson…