Director and Emmy Award-winner Rob Feng has joined Paydirt for commercial representation in the U.S., U.K. and Japan. His recent directorial credits include spots for Prius, One A Day with BBDO, Clorox with DDB San Francisco, and Bright House Networks. Over the years he has directed campaigns for American Express, Apple, Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser, Snapple, Vodafone, DirecTV and Zappos. Feng, who won a 2011 Emmy for his work on the Game of Thrones title sequence, also worked with Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris to create the signature story graphics for his latest feature documentary Tabloid. For his work on the film, Feng received Cinema Eye Honors for an Outstanding Debut in a Feature Film, awarded annually for exemplary craft in innovation and nonfiction film. He also won a 2005 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects for Muse’s “Hysteria.” Feng began his film career on set in the motion control/ miniatures unit on feature films such as The Fifth Element, Titanic and X-Men. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts program….San Francisco-based agency Eleven has hired creative director Jack Harding, who comes over from BBDO, sr. copywriter Ray Connolly, previously with Cutwater and Deutsch, copywriter Jimmy Carson, formerly of TBWAMedia Arts Lab, sr. integrated art director Sara Worthington, an ex-Goodby, Silverstein & Partners’ sr. art director, sr. designer Matthew Wakeman, who ran his own design consultancy Matthew Wakeman Design, consumer application architect Michael Neuman who had served as a human factors engineer at Apple, and jr. art director Amanda Day who was a student at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco….
Sheriff Reports Preliminary Autopsy Results On Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
Preliminary autopsy results didn't determine how Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife died at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but did rule out that they were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, the sheriff leading the investigation said Friday.
The condition of the bodies found Wednesday indicated the deaths occurred at least several days earlier and there was no sign of foul play.
At a news conference, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said the initial examination by the medical examiner showed no sign of carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas produced from kitchen appliances and other fuel-burning items. When it collects in poorly ventilated homes, it can be fatal.
Mendoza also said an examination of the 95-year-old Hackman's pacemaker showed it stopped working on Feb. 17, which means he may have died nine days earlier.
Hackman's body was found in an entryway. The body of his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, was in a bathroom. She was on her side and a space heater was near her head. Investigators said the heater likely was pulled down when she fell. There also was an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on a countertop.
Whether the pills or other drugs were a factor won't be known until toxicology tests are completed in the coming weeks.
Dr. Philip Keen, the retired chief medical examiner in Maricopa County, Arizona, said it would be unlikely for a person who tests negative for carbon monoxide initially to later be found to have been poisoned by it.
He also said the moment when a pacemaker stops working could mark the point when a person dies, but not always.
"If your heart required a pacemaker, there would certainly be an interruption at that point — and it might be the hallmark of when... Read More