Dec. 6/Brooklyn, N.Y.: Freelance Producers Network meeting at Cinema World Stage. (917) 933-5566….Dec. 7/New York: AICP/East’s Holiday Bowling Party at Chelsea Piers Lanes. Jennifer, (212) 420-8900….Dec. 7/New York: New York Women in Communications Inc. (NYWICI) Holiday Breakfast Honoring Dress for Success New York. Amy Peloso, (212) 297-2126….Dec. 8/San Francisco: ITS Workshop On California’s Postproduction Tax Break at Realtime Video. Eileen Kramer, (323) 461-5890….Dec. 8/San Francisco: Broads in Broadcasting’s "Broads Last Bash," a holiday cocktail party at Fuse. (310) 319-6140; broads@spots.net….Dec. 9/Prague: The 1999 AICP Show on Tour at the Museum of Modern Art. (212) 475-2600….Dec. 16/Los Angeles: AICP/West Holiday Party. (323) 960-4763….Dec. 17/Tahoe City, Calif.: Tahoe International Film Festival (T.I.F.F.) early call for entries deadline (Jan. 14 is the final deadline). Hilary Kleger, (530) 583-FEST; info@tahoefilmfestival.org….Dec. 23/New York: Adweek’s Best Spots of the Year entry deadline. (212) 536-6453….Jan. 5/San Francisco: San Francisco International Film Festival’s Narrative Feature call for entries deadline. (415) 929-5026; fax: (415) 921-5032; djones@ sfiff.org….Jan. 25-27/New Orleans: 37th Annual NATPE Program Conference & Exhibition. (310) 453-4440; www.natpe. org….Jan. 28/ Vienna, Va.: Final deadline for entries to the 21st International Monitor Awards. Tracy Murley, (703) 319-0800; fax: (703) 319-1120….Jan. 29-Feb. 3/Key West, Fla.: ITS: The Association of Imaging Technology and Sound’s 13th Annual President’s Retreat at the Hilton Key West. Nancy Zern, (703) 319-0800; fax: (703) 319-1120….Feb. 24-25/ New York: AAF Foundation 25 Most Promising Minority Students. Rebecca Martin, (202) 898-0089; rmartin@aaf.org….March 21/New York: AAF Advertising Hall of Fame. Lisa Rubin, (202) 898-0089; lrubin@aaf.org…. April 20-May 4/San Francisco: The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival. Brian Gordon, (415) 929-5014….
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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