While he has a distinguished track record as an editor–as seven AICP Show-honored inclusions into the permanent film archives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, would attest–Jonathan Del Gatto of Foundation Content, Chicago and Los Angeles, is no stranger to directing. While continuing to edit, he has found time between cutting to take on select helming gigs which include web content for United Airlines, a PSA for Inside Out/Venice Community Arts Center, and an interview piece with musician Herbie Hancock (also for United Airlines).
Last week he broke new directorial ground with the debut of his first music video (edited by Anna Patel of Foundation, L.A.), “Cameras,” for Matt & Kim.
The clip shows Matt on keyboard and Kim on drums in session when she accidentally knocks a drum into a microphone which hits Matt, disrupting his performance. This spurs some tossing of objects, first in a playful manner but then their musical “food fight” escalates into an all-out battle with fists flying and instruments being thrown about, making a shambles of the room and in fact breaking through to another room which expands the fight–only now Matt and Kim are a team again, punching out the guy musicians in the second room.
Stacy Paris produced for Foundation Content. DP was Helge Gerull.
The video debuted last week on MTV and its affiliate channels as well as online.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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