Associate Partner/Creative Director
Venables Bell & Partners
1) Creatively ideas will continue to move from the traditional to emerging platforms across all media. Ideas that tell stories across all of these platforms will be the big winners. The center of gravity of these ideas will change but the ones that engage across film and social, experiential, PR, branded entertainment and new emerging platforms will be the ones we all remember.
2) Looking for big brands to play bigger roles in society. To be fearless as we continue to pursue creative platforms that can stretch to hold content that can educate, entertain and engage. As we pitch new business and expand relationships with existing clients we have a pretty high bar when it comes to what we feel will move both our clients brands and our own brand forward. With regard to agency culture we want to change the way we each think about, connect with and represent those different from ourselves.
3) You never know when or where that next game changing client or idea will appear. Never write off the little things. Chase down and every opportunity but remember to stay honest and true to what you believe in deciding what to pursue. Once you’ve decided to engage, jump in head first and don’t look back.
4) Meditation! I’m 15 days in and feeling great. (I’m also really bad at keeping resolutions.)
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer โ but not the trigger โ and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More