We see the reflection of a man eyeing himself in a small mirror which is perched atop an office bookcase alongside piles of folders and paper. A dying small potted plant on a nearby windowsill fits in well with this disheveled workplace.
The spot then gives us a better look at the man who’s shirtless. He’s shaving himself with an electric razor but it’s not his face that’s getting groomed. Instead he’s shaved out his chest hair to create a pattern resembling a shirt collar and neck tie. Guess he’s getting ready for a formal business meeting. The camera then reveals that he’s otherwise only wearing briefs and a pair of shoes.
Filling the screen is a message which reads, “Bad things happen when you’re bored.”
The solution: entertainment.ie, a site that offers TV, cinema and loads more.
“Shave” was one of two spots in the campaign, which was directed by Lena Beug via Red Rage Films in Dublin, Ire., for agency Cawley Nea TBWA, Dublin. (Beug is repped stateside by RSA and in Canada by Untitled).
The agency team consisted of creative director Alan Kelly, art director Mark Black and copywriter Graham Stewart.
Paul Holmes was the line producer for Red Rage. The DP was Kip Bogdahn.
Editor and colorist were Philip Cullen and Dave Hughes, respectively, of Windmill Lane, Dublin. Audio post mixer was Paddy Gibbons of No. 4 Studios@Windmill Lane.
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.
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