Post Shop Is A Division Of Paradise M&E.
By ROBERT GOLDRICH
After a hiatus which entailed moving from Southern California to New Orleans to devote more time to parenthood and to dabble in the fine arts, editor T.G. Herrington has returned to the post community, launching Vapour. The new venture, a division of publicly traded, bicoastal Paradise Music & Entertainment, has set up interim quarters in Paradise’s Los Angeles complex. Herrington plans to scout for space on the Westside to serve as Vapour’s permanent site.
Herrington said that Vapour operates autonomously of Paradise and is totally separate from Straw Dogs, a bicoastal commercial production house which Paradise made a deal to acquire earlier this year (SHOOT, 5/7/99, p. 1). Though Vapour’s core business will be creative editing, the boutique also plans to be involved in design and execution of special effects, graphic design, and designing of content for the Internet.
Herrington is best known for his tenure at now defunct Mojo/ L.A., a Santa Monica editorial shop he opened in ’94. Among his editing credits is the original Budweiser "Frogs" spot out of DMB&B, St. Louis. He also cut some Budweiser Super Bowl fare, including "Caveman," for Laguna Beach, Calif.-based ad agency Open Minds. Over the years, Herrington edited regularly for such noted directors as Simon West and David Kellogg of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films; Jesse Dylan, who’s now at Straw Dogs; and Allan Van Rijn of bicoastal RSA USA.
Last year (SHOOT, 8/28/98, p. 7), Herrington sold Mojo to Los Angeles-headquartered post house Bedlam. The Mojo facility became Bedlam Santa Monica. As part of that deal, Herrington agreed to be repped as an editor via Bedlam. But his focus was on raising his son, which involved the aforementioned relocation to New Orleans. Earlier this year, Herrington did manage to cut one job via Bedlam: an urban-targeted Mountain Dew spot featuring rapper Busta Rhymes. But as ’99 dragged on, Herrington said he found himself missing the art and craft of editing. That translated into his decision to return to the Los Angeles area a few months ago, which led to the formation of Vapour.
Herrington said that Vapour is in the market for additional editors and plans to form a national sales force. At press time, Herrington was being bid on several undisclosed projects.
Tim Burton Discusses His Dread Of AI As An Exhibition of His Work Opens In London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits โ all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters "really disturbed me."
"It wasn't an intellectual thought โ it was just an internal, visceral feeling," Burton told reporters during a preview of "The World of Tim Burton" exhibition at London's Design Museum. "I looked at those things and I thought, 'Some of these are pretty good.' โฆ (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside."
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because "once you can do it, people will do it." But he scoffed when asked if he'd use the technology in this work.
"To take over the world?" he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
"I wasn't, early on, a very verbal person," Burton said. "Drawing was a way of expressing myself."
Decades later, after films including "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice," his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton's personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition's final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in... Read More