Company 3 has added colorist Nick Metcalf to its growing artists roster in New York. Formerly sr. colorist at The Mill, Metcalf has colored campaigns for brands including Polo Ralph Lauren, Estee Lauder, Harley Davidson, and Cadillac. He has collaborated with leading filmmakers in the commercial space, including Wally Pfister, ASC, Michel Gondry, Diego Contreras, Gordon Von Steiner, and the Hudson Dusters.
Metcalf brings an eclectic background of artistic sensibilities and a deep understanding of technological tools to every job he takes on. He began his artistic career as a high-end photochemical printer for major photographers in the fine art and commercial worlds, then set up and built a digital retouching operation in New York and concurrently worked on set as a D.I.T. (digital imaging technician) for cinematographers on high-level national and international spots.
Originally from Ohio, Metcalf was always intensely interested in photography and printing. He built his first darkroom at 11 years old. Also an avid painter, he received his BFA in photography from New York’s School of Visual Arts.
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