Formerly Of Rubin Postaer And Associates.
By SUSAN LIN
Eric Harnett has joined Los Angeles ad agency Kovel/Fuller as its head of production. His new roost’s broadcast accounts include Jiffy Lube, Playboy, Nintendo and Vista Optical.
Harnett was most recently with Rubin Postaer and Associates, Santa Monica, where he worked on Honda automobiles’ regional marketing program, producing nearly 35 spots a year. During his 10-year stay at Rubin Postaer, Harnett collaborated with such clients as Honda, US West, The Disney Channel, Acura, Home Fed Bank and Millers Outpost.
"After searching the country, we felt Eric was the perfect person to help us run a busy and fast-growing department," said Kovel/Fuller chief creative officer Lee Kovel. "His depth and obvious creative talents and relationships with the production community are a perfect fit."
Among Harnett’s other accomplishments at Rubin Postaer was helping in the design and building of its A-V studio seven years ago. He earlier served at multinational holding company, Meeker and Co., Los Angeles. His duties there included consulting on entertainment acquisitions and international production deals, as well as taking the company through development and contract negotiations on theatrical productions, TV projects and Webcasts.
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 — 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 — 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.' … (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