An animated beep character tells us about his career progression in this spot for Recruit Ireland, a company in the business of lining up new worthwhile professional jobs for those seeking employment. The beep looks back on his less than stellar start, providing the beeps for an old audiotape phone answering machine. There beeping off was not only an annoyance to those leaving messages, often cutting them off in mid-sentence–but also an embarrassment to the ambitious beep character who is much too talented for such a mundane task.
But now thanks to Recruit Ireland, the beep protagonist has got a new fulfilling gig–beeping out the nasty words in TV shows. Ah, to be in show business.
This clever look at what Recruit Ireland can do for its clients came from Dublin agency Chemistry, with Steve Angel of Head Gear Animation, Toronto, serving as director/animator, working with animator/compositor Nick Fairhead.
The Chemistry team included executive creative director Mike Garner, deputy creative director Emmet Wright, copywriter Anne Fleming and art director Nicole Sykes.
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