Welcome to the future neighborhood. As we hear a “Beautiful Day” serenade, we see a succession of people seemingly oblivious to the fact that they are in the midst of natural disasters.
A couple pushes a baby stroller along the sidewalk in the face of a powerful wind storm. Next, we see campers enjoying the great outdoors with a bonfire next to their tent–while the countryside behind them is ablaze, almost fully engulfed in flames. And finally we see a flooded neighborhood in which we see a man, waist deep in water, washing his car which itself is about two-third submerged. Also in the flood scenario, two guys are tossing a football back and forth, and further in the background it appears yet another man is cooking a meal on his barbecue.
A supered message than appears which simply reads, “Ignoring global warming won’t make it go away,” followed by an end tag carrying the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) logo.
“Beautiful Day” was directed and shot by Chris Sargent via Untitled, Toronto, for FCB, Toronto.
Peter Davis executive produced for Untitled, with Tom Evelyn serving as producer.
The FCB team consisted of executive VP/creative director Robin Heisey, VP/group creative director/art director Joe Piccolo, associate creative director/copywriter Chris Taciuk and co-head of production Judy Hamilton.
Editor was Pete McAuley of AXYZ, Toronto. Irene Payne produced for AXYZ with Dave Giles and Joel Saunders the Inferno artists from that studio. Audio post mixer was Toronto-based freelancer Paul Seeley.
Contributors from Rosnick Mackinnon Webster (RMW), Toronto, were music arranger Mark Hukezlie, sound designer Vlad Nikolic and producer Ted Rosnick.
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More