The idea of this spot is simple yet “stays with you” (to borrow its tagline). This :30 takes regular Angelenos, going about their business in typical situations all over Los Angeles, and replaces their heads with art from the Getty Museum in L.A.
We see a man walking down a busy city street, his head being a Rembrandt painting. Another man walks his dog along a residential street, his head being an antique camera. Yet another gent is shown going up an escalator, his head being an exquisite vase.
The tagline is that a trip to the Getty “stays with you.”
“Heads” was directed by the team of Peter Martin (Martin Dix and Peter Livolsi) from Sleeper Films, Los Angeles, for agency M&C Saatchi, L.A. Visual effects, which are integral to the spot, were done by Ring of Fire, Santa Monica.
The agency team included creative director Dix, art director Ton Tapia, writer Dennis DiSalvo and producer Rebecca Silverstein.
Alex Blum and Andrea Ruskin executive produced for Sleeper with Tracy Broaddus serving as line producer. The DP was Eric West.
Jerry Spivack was creative director/VFX supervisor for Ring of Fire, with John Myers exec producing for the studio.
Editor was Patrick Griffin of bicoastal Lost Planet.
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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