A woman in the copier room at work is xeroxing some documents, a scene that makes for a pretty mundane slice of office life–except for the flies. They’re buzzing all about her as a male co-worker looks on with a facial expression that’s part disgust, part perplexed.
Next she walks back to her desk where a nearby female colleague also wonders about all the buzz.
Two supers then offer an explanation: “Full of it,” which is followed by, “Get it out.”
A logo for a local Italian store (Erboristera della Piazzella) and its Natural Laxative Tea appears.
Currently being shown in movie theaters in Italy, the spot was created by Special Team, a Milan-headquartered ad agency with a branch office in New York. Creative director was Pasquale Diaferia who’s based in Milan. Agency producer was Veronica Diaferia who works out of Special Team’s N.Y. shop.
Gigi Piola directed the cinema ad via Milan production house Bedeschi Film. Exec producer was Giovanni Bedeschi with Federico Salvi serving as producer. The job was shot in Milan by DP Giancarlo Lodi.
Visual effects artist was Patrizio Rizzi of Milan-based house RIZZI.
Editor was freelancer Luca Angeleri.
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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