New York-based Action Sports Adventure Productions (ASA) provided the footage for "Reflex Action," Anheuser-Busch’s national Bud Light campaign featuring ’99 U.S. Women’s National Soccer star Julie Foudy, via DDB Chicago. Over the past year, ASA has produced 35mm film footage of the ’98 Goodwill Games and for clients such as Nike, Reebok, Time Warner, ESPN, Turner Sports, FOX Television and The Women’s Sports Foundation, as well as UPS and others….Energy Film Library, headquartered in Studio City, Calif., announced the release of hundreds of hours of rare archival footage including imagery of celebrities and historical figures and events, scientific achievements and stupid inventions, as well as home movies from the ’20s, public hygiene films from the ’40s and ’50s, and cartoons from the ’70s….Mark Cass was named managing director of the Stills Division of The Image Bank (TIB), New York. He previously served as managing director of TIB/U.K. Cass will implement product regionalization in his new position, with photography and illustration geared toward the needs of clients in Europe, North America, Asia and South America….New York-based Breeze International provided footage for Secrets of the Soviet Space Disasters, part of the "History Undercover" series for the History Channel. The footage reveals mishaps of the Soviet space programs, including unsuccessful launches, explosions and malfunctions in space resulting in human tragedies. Breeze has exclusive rights to the Russian library of more than 200,000 films and videos on such subjects as aviation, animals, the cosmos, culture, the Czar and history…. Archive Photos, New York, has entered an agreement with The Anne Frank House for exclusive worldwide representation of the Anne Frank Photo Collection, which is comprised almost entirely of photos found in both the diary of Anne Frank and the Frank family photo albums….
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