Feb. 11/Houston: The33rd Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival call for entries deadline. Kim Roseland, (713) 965-9955; fax: (713) 965-9960; worldfest@aol.com; www.worldfest.org….
– Feb. 11/New York: The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) call for entries deadline for the 2000 AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Television Commercials. (212) 475-2600; www.aicp.com/show….
– Feb. 15-17/Los Angeles: AICP Commercial Production Seminar, "How to be a commercials coordinator … and why." (323) 960-4763; (212) 475-2600….
– Feb. 18-27/Miami: FIU 17th Miami Film Festival. Jorge Martinez/C.L. Conroy, (305) 662-6960….
– Feb. 24-25/New York: AAF Foundation’s 25 Most Promising Minority Students. Rebecca Martin, (202) 898-0089; rmartin@aaf.org….
– Feb. 24-March 5/San Jose, Calif.: Cinequest San Jose Film Festival; www.cinequest.org….
– Feb. 25-27/Los Angeles: Locations 2000 Global Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. (323) 883-1655; afci.org.
– Feb. 17-20/Palm Springs, Calif.: ITS Technology Retreat 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Suites. Nancy Zern (703) 319-0800; Fax: (703) 319-1120; nancyzern@erols.com.
– March 13-April 13/New York: School of Visual Arts’ "The Art of Production Design." (212) 592-2010; proffice@adm.schoolofvisualarts.edu….
– March 13/New York: William Linsman teaches "Directing Television Commercials" at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. (212) 998-7140; www.scps.nyu.edu/film….
– March 14-15/New Orleans: Kid Power Xchange’s eTeen Power: eTailing and Marketing Strategies to Reach Teens Conference. (800) 882-8684….
– March 17/New York: Cresta Awards call for entries deadline. Nancy Ross, (212) 696-1323; Fax: (212) 696-5505; crestaawads@aol.com; www.cresta-awards.com….
– March 21/New York: AAF Advertising Hall of Fame. Lisa Rubin, (202) 898-0089; lrubin@aaf.org….
– April 1/West Palm Beach, Fla.: The Palm Beach Independent Film & Video Festival call for entries deadline. (561) 802-3029; www.wpbiff.org….
– April 7/Hoilywood: 9th Annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards.. Drea Clark or Shana Betz, (323) 469-9494….
– April 7-16/Houston: The 33rd Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival. Kim Roseland, (713) 965-9955; fax: (713) 965-9960; worldfest@aol.com; www.worldfest.org….
– April 20-May 4/San Francisco: The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival. Brian Gordon, (415) 929-5014; ggawards@sfiff.org….
– May 3-June 4/Hollywood: World Animation Celebration. (818) 575-9615; fax: (818) 575-9620; wacfestusa@aol.com; www.wacfest.com….
– May 31/New York: Saatchi & Saatchi Innovation in Communication Award call for entries deadline. www.saatchi-saatchi.com….
– June 14-15/Chicago: U.S. International Film and Video Festival at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Hotel. (630) 834-7773; fax: (630) 834-5565; www.filmfestawards.com….
– June 20-22/Las Vegas: AAF American Advertising Conference. Karen Cohn, (202) 898-0089; kcohn@aaf.org….
– July 14-16/North Hollywood: VES 2000: A Festival of Visual Effects. Addie Bua, (818) 708-3355; adgogirl@aol.com….
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