Former Rep For HSI Enters Editorial Arena.
Editorial house Inside/Out—which has a roster that includes cutters Igor Kovalik, Robert Ivison and Fred Fouquet—has named Esther Gonzalez to serve as its executive producer. In her new capacity, Gonzalez will be directly responsible for sales, servicing the client base, project management and the supervision of the day-to-day operations for the Santa Monica company.
Gonzalez comes to Inside/ Out after a two-year run as the West Coast sales rep for bicoastal HSI Productions. While there, she was responsible for obtaining work for a roster of directors that included Samuel Bayer, Gerard de Thame and Peggy Sirota. Among the assignments brought in by Gonzalez were spots for Banana Republic, The Gap, Saturn and Nissan.
Prior to that, Gonzalez spent 12 years at the Los Angeles office of bicoastal Coppos Films, the last seven as head of production. It was in this position that, under executive producer Bill Bratkowski, Gonzalez bid, negotiated and closed jobs for such helmers as Mark Coppos and Craig Gillespie. Gonzalez worked on a series of ad campaigns that brought Coppos Films the coveted Palm D’Or at Cannes in ’91. Gonzalez also scheduled and hired the crew and oversaw all the productions that ranged from low-budget PSAs to multimillion-dollar shoots.
Before her tenure at Coppos Films, Gonzalez spent a year at Chiat/Day (now TBWA/Chiat/ Day), Los Angeles, as a broadcast secretary working on such accounts as Apple, Nike, Porsche, Pizza Hut and Yamaha.
Of her move to Inside/Out, Gonzalez explained: "Although I enjoyed being a sales rep, I really wanted to get back on the management side of the industry. When I met Igor [Kovalik], I was extremely impressed with the quality and standards of Inside/Out, [as well as] the talent and creativity evident in the editors’ work."
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