A little girl walks out the front door of her house. She’s wearing a raincoat and sits on the front stoop to put on some rain boots even though it isn’t raining.
She then looks at a puddle just beyond her front porch steps. In the puddle she sees several small forms of marine life, the most prominent being a starfish which she reaches out and touches.
Her attention then turns to another puddle further ahead. She looks into this one and sees a penguin frolicking and swimming about. She then jumps into the puddle with both feet making a big splash.
A super appears which simply reads, “Some experiences follow you home,” followed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium ID, logo and the suggestion that we visit the venue’s “re-imagined Splash Zone.”
Titled “Puddles,” the :30 for the Northern California attraction was directed by Marjolaine Tremblay and Alex Either via elementFX, San Rafael, Calif., for agency BuderEngel, San Francisco. Suzanne Atherly produced for elementFX. Gab Gerrano and Todd Gill were the studios CG artists with Gerrano additionally serving as editor.
The BuderEngel ensemble included creative director Vince Engel, copywriter Nino Dedenroth, art director Ming Yu and director of integrated production Dennis Minor.
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