A bespectacled audiologist named Dr. Smith introduces himself to us. He comes out from behind his desk and walks to an examination table. He points to a nearby watermelon, noting that a person is “a soundaholic” if he wonders what the melon would sound like if dropped from a 36-story building, or if he hears a skidding car and identifies the noise as registering as a B flat musically. For the latter example, Dr. Smith points to a tire.
A soundaholic, says Dr. Smith, sees a rooster and a bird and wonders if one thinks the other can’t sing well. Pointing to a flip chart containing drawings of different people, Dr. Smith notes that soundaholics “are everywhere.” He hesitates momentarily when one of the pictures resembles him. Dr. Smith then identifies the definitive sign someone is a soundaholic–the wearing of a Sony MP3 Walkman. Consider the soundaholic the way you would a relative, for they’re human too, says the compassionate doctor. With a shot of Dr. Smith dancing to the music on his Walkman, the website address www.feeleverysound.com is supered on screen.
Eric Steinman of Trio Films, Los Angeles, directed “Doctor”–one of three virals which gained airtime in Southeast Asia–for Young & Rubicam, Singapore. “Doctor” and a second spot, “Calvin,” have created a buzz, gaining fans in the U.S. on YouTube.
The agency team included creative director Rowan Chanen, art director Rudino Bin Kassim and producer Kim Lim.
Taylor Ferguson and Erin Tauscher executive produced for Trio, with John Marx serving as producer. The DP was Kip Bogdahn.
Editor was Ira Kline of Union Editorial, Los Angeles.
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