Independent, creative and strategic agency The Distillery Project (TDP) has hired Eric Cosper as creative director. He will work on the agency’s Arrow Electronics and Ferguson Enterprises accounts and new business. Cosper will report to founder/chief creative officer John Condon.
Cosper believes every marketing problem is a creative puzzle waiting to be solved with a simple, well-crafted idea. Agencies he’s worked at include Wieden+Kennedy, BBDO, and Fallon, and brands he’s partnered with include Nike, ESPN, GE, Citibank, Coca-Cola, and T-Mobile. He’s picked up assorted industry awards and even a primetime commercial Emmy nomination for GE’s “Childlike Imagination,” for which he served as a sr. creative director during his tenure at BBDO NY. Directed by Dante Ariola of MJZ, “Childlike Imagination” earned the Emmy nod in 2014. It depicted a girl dreaming about the amazing things her mom makes as a GE employee. This piece underscored how GE is stretching the limits of human imagination to create brilliant machines which positively impact society.
Additionally, Cosper’s work on Charles Schwab, CitiBank and GE has been awarded Effies, affirming his belief that the power of an idea can move business.
“Eric has worked on a wide variety of some of the world’s best-known brands at some very highly regarded agencies,” said Condon. “He brings a wealth of experience, along with a proven ability to create ideas and craft them in a way that demands consideration. And on top of that, he’s a really good guy.”
Founded in April 2012, Chicago-based TDP has a client roster which in addition to Arrow Electronics and Ferguson Enterprises includes Meijer, Caterpillar and Fresh Thyme.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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