This spec piece directed by freelancer Jesse Jacobs takes us to a billiards hall where a young man makes an incredible shot clearly due to other worldly powers that go beyond his dexterity with a cue stick.
Another guy witnesses the shot and immediately declares, “You’re that telekinetic guy.”
The man with mind-bending prowess denies the claim. “You must have me confused with someone else,” he says, as we see cue sticks moving by themselves in the background.
Further conclusive evidence, though, comes when our mind-over-matter gent starts pilfering Skittles from the other guy’s package of the delicious candies.
Though he doesn’t realize that he’s losing his Skittles, the man sticks to his guns about the telekinetic accusation. “Maybe I have you confused with you,” he says sarcastically as he then instinctively tries to shield his package of Skittles from the mind bender.
However, there is no protection as the telekinetic guy just breaks off the man’s hand without touching him. The hand holding the Skittles floats towards him and empties the package of bite size candies into his mouth.
Having just lost his right hand, the other man somehow finds consolation in the fact that his suspicions were correct. “I knew it,” he exclaims triumphantly.
An end tag contains a Skittle package and logo, accompanied by the slogan “Touch the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow.”
Besides directing the spot via his Venice, Calif.-based Jesse Studio, Jacobs additionally served as its designer, art director, co-creative director and co-writer. He shared the latter two roles with Brian Nash who was at Draftfcb, Chicago, at the time and has since moved over to Maddock Douglas in Elmhurst, IL.
Line producers were Bruce Devan and Merilee Newman. The DP was Brian O’Connell.
Visual effects/compositing house was Eden FX, Hollywood, with Fred Pienkos serving as VFX director.
Editor was Bryant Wang of 89 Edit, New York.
Sound designer was Mike Farnan of Desiderata Media, Los Angeles.
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The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
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Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
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