Creatives Stuart Harricks and Siavosh Zabeti have joined Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. Harricks comes aboard as creative director after departing Young & Rubicam, New York, where he was global creative director for LG worldwide, LG US Mobile and the United States Olympic Committee alongside Andrew McKechnie.
Harricks’ notable work at Y&R included the lauded “Something’s Lurking” piece for LG, created with Psyop, New York. Prior to Y&R, Harricks was an integrated associate creative director at Modernista! in Boston where he helped integrate the agency’s above the line and digital creative across the Palm, Cadillac and National Parks Foundation accounts. Earlier Harricks was at Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore.
At W+K Amsterdam, Harricks will be partnered with creative director Edu Pou.
Zabeti is a young, up-and-coming talent who created a diverse body of work for DDB Paris, including: a billboard powered by oranges for Tropicana, a full-scale Wii video game for Henkel, a 15 minute interactive Anime for an anti-smoking campaign, and a book of Facebook memories for French mobile provider Bouygues.
During his four years at DDB, Zabeti’s work earned four Cannes Lions, a ONE Show Pencil, a pair of Webby awards, several Young Guns awards, and a couple of D&AD nominations.
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 — but not the trigger — 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.
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