A sprinkler pops up and starts spraying water on the front lawn. Inside the house we see a guy in a mundane slice of kitchen life. But he hears some muffled commotion that causes him to seek out the source of the noise, which gets louder as he approaches the front door. He opens the door to find a man in swimming trunks having a grand old time on the front lawn, being doused by the sprinklers.
Indeed the lawn is this bathing suit-clad guy’s personal water amusement park. He’s seen in various positions getting soaked–laid out on the lawn kicking his feet in celebration and standing and spinning about repeatedly like a whirlybird.
A series of supered sentences relate: “Don’t make us ask you again. It’s a desert out there. Water only one day a week.”
A voiceover chimes in, “To find your watering schedule, go to changeyourclock.com.
This offbeat yet direct water conservation message on behalf of the Southern Nevada Water Authority was directed by Peter Harton Jensen of The Joneses, Santa Monica, for agency R&R Partners, Las Vegas.
The R&R team consisted of executive creative director Daniel Russ, creative director Ron Lopez, copywriter Jason Luery, art director Diane Vafi, executive producer Don Turley and producer Kelly Thompson.
Mel Gragido exec produced for The Joneses, with Jeanne Stack serving as producer. The DP was Stops Lagensteiner.
Editor was Bill Marmor of Rex Edit, Santa Monica.
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.
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