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The Cure, Tim Pope, and Lego
Director Tim Pope did a lot of music videos for The Cure, “around 37” in fact. I always was intrigued by his work: it’s lushness and tonality, as well as their fantastical imaginative ways of telling a story (the swinging camera for Inbetween Days! The herk-jerky sped up/slow down of Neil Young’s “Wonderin’”!) They were pretty much the perfect creative […]
This – looks very interesting! Finding Vivian Maier.
Finding Vivian Maier. In 2007 Chicago 26-year-old real estate agent (and president of the Jefferson Park Historical Society) John Maloof walked into an auction house and placed a $380 bid on a box of 30,000 prints and negatives from an unknown photographer. Realizing the street photographs of 1950s/60s era Chicago and New York were of unusually high quality he purchased […]
Hot out of the Avid! MSO Bravo IV TV Spot! – Beethoven’s Sixth!
Hot out of the Avid! The penultimate spot in the 2012/13 MSO season! MSO Bravo IV – Beethoven’s Sixth! Thanks again to Matthew Beall at TRiNiTiFX for the CG, Jeff Pedigo, Billy Browne at WAB Partners , and Sam Watson at Sam Watson Music for the sound recording & mixing!
An Oral History of “Pulp Fiction”
From Vanity Fair “Gladstein remembers Jackson’s audition: “In comes Sam with a burger in his hand and a drink in the other hand and stinking like fast food. Me and Quentin and Lawrence were sitting on the couch, and he walked in and just started sipping that shake and biting that burger and looking at all of us. I was […]
“2001”-HAL 9000 was Built Using a Nikkor 8mm f/8 Lens
This made me kind of happy in a geeky way this morning. The full scale mockup of HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey” was built using a Nikon Nikkor 8mm f/8 fisheye lens as it’s glowing red “eye”. The article from petapixel.com goes on to say that interestingly enough, The 8mm lens wasn’t used to shoot HAL’s POV shots. […]
Archives Friday! Paul Moak Auto TV Campaign 2004
We literally just stumbled accross this campaign on an old hard drive that was forgoten about, until yesterday… The brain child of Keith Fraser at Maris West Baker Advertising, the Paul Moak Auto 2004 TV Campaign was simple and effective. It won multiple awards at teh 2005 ADDYs.
Kickstarter Project For a Documentary About Mad Magazine
“When We Went Mad” I’m really interested in seeing this documentary. I grew up reading Mad in the heady days of the 1970’s, not always understanding exactly what I was reading, but learning quickly!
Hot out of the Avid! Check our new spots for Singing River Health System!
Hot out of the Avid! Check out our new spots for Singing River Health System! Thanks again to The Gibbes Company for the gig, Sam Watson for the music, Matthew Beall for the animated logo, Jeff Bauman, Alex, Colt, & the rest of the team! We had a blast shooting these spots! [vimeo 57772748 w=500 h=281] Singing River Health System TV […]
Doing some serious grading at Crawford Media today!
In Atlanta today with Jeff Bauman at Crawford Media doing color correction for our Singing River Hospital spots we shot back in December for the Gibbes Company Advertiding.
The Making of “The Blues Brothers”
Here’s a nice Vanity Fair article about one of our favorite movies, “The Blues Brothers”. A $17.5 million production going over budget by $10 million, and expected to flop. Instead it makes $115 million. Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers