Eric Bauer has come aboard creative content and brand communications company Gravity as a creative director. In his new role, he will be involved in commercial and digital branding projects, as well as occasionally feature film and TV opening title sequences. Bauer will report directly to Zviah Eldar, CEO/chief creative officer of Gravity, which maintains offices in New York, Santa Monica, and Tel Aviv.
Bauer has been working as a director, creative director and animator for nearly a decade, freelancing for such shops as Eyeball, Gretel, Stardust, Favorite Color, Brand New School, Plus et Plus, Digital Kitchen, Imaginary Forces, Superfad, Tronic, and Offspring. He ha contributed to campaigns for such clients as The Gap, Sony, Nike, Miller, HBO, Cartoon Network, CNN and Bravo.
Based in New York, Bauer is a graduate of Pratt Institute where in 2002 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in film and design.
Maggie Smith, Star of Stage, Film and “Downton Abbey,” Dies At 89
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey" and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89. Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital. "She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs. Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies. She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything." Smith drily summarized her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques," including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension." Richard Eyre, who directed Smith in a television production of "Suddenly Last Summer," said she was "intellectually the smartest actress I've ever worked with. You have to get up very, very early in the morning to outwit Maggie Smith." "Jean Brodie," in which she played a dangerously charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher, brought her the Academy Award for best actress, and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for "California Suite" in 1978, Golden Globes for "California Suite" and "Room with a View," and BAFTAs for lead actress in "A Private Function" in 1984, "A Room with a View" in... Read More