A veteran executive is in an office staring at two charts which are not yet revealed to us. He’s flanked by two colleagues–a guy and a gal–and asks each for an opinion. The guy goes for the bar graph chart, the gal suggests the pie chart. We then see the two charts side by side as the senior exec mulls over what he calls the “age-old dilemma.”
Suddenly, a giant hand holding a job seeker bursts through the wall. The female job seeker is clueless as to what’s just transpired as she’s thrust into this office debate. The executive asks her what she thinks and she hesitatingly responds, “Bar graph.”
“Exactly,” responds the now satisfied executive.
The spot ends with a voiceover declaring, “Find the perfect job faster than you think on WashingtonPost.com–thousands more D.C. jobs than any other website.”
“Charts” is one of three spots in a campaign directed and edited by Michael Wilde of Phasmatrope Studios, Haverford, Penns., for agency Adworks, Washington, D.C.
The Adworks team included creative director Mark Greenspun, associate creative director John McEown, copywriter T.J. Aseltyne and producer Kristine Punga.
Jonathan Isen exec produced for Phasmatrope with Claudio Kuhn serving as producer and Amy D’Alio as production manager. The DP was Andy Lilien. Production designer was Jesse Rosenthal.
The giant hand was created by Philadelphia-based props/rigging company Kitchen Sink.
Post house was Shooters Post and Transfer, Philadelphia.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More