CLIENT
Charles Schwab Investment Services.
PRODUCTION CO.
Headquarters, bicoastal. David Cornell, director/DP; Alex Blum, partner/executive producer; Tom Mooney, partner/director of sales; Andrew Denyer, head of production; Kati Haberstock, producer. Shot on location in Los Angeles.
AGENCY
BBDO New York. Ted Sann, chief creative officer; Charlie Miesmer, senior executive creative director; Jimmy Siegel, senior creative director/copywriter/art director, "Mutombo"; J.D. Williams, producer; Rani Vaz, music producer; Steve Rutter, creative director, "Picabo"; Susan Credle, creative director/copywriter, "Picabo."
EDITORIAL
Crew Cuts, New York. Clayton Hemmert, editor.
POST
Manhattan Transfer, New York. Peter Flack, online editor. Nice Shoes, New York. Ron Brower, colorist, "Picabo." SMA Video, New York. Larry Trosko, colorist, "Mutombo."
AUDIO POST
Buzz, New York. Michael Marinelli, mixer/engineer.
MUSIC
Sicurella & Associates, New York. Jack Cortner, composer, "Picabo."
THE SPOTS
"Picabo" and "Mutombo" (:30s) feature athletes who also happen to be Schwab customers. Picabo Street discusses investing while doing rehabilitative exercises, and Dikembe Mutombo of the Atlanta Hawks asks an investment question while attending a seminar. Both spots end with the tagline, "Creating a world of smarter investors."
Spots broke in October.
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