Joshua Hirsch has joined Deutsch LA as executive VP/executive creative technology director. Previously, he served as chief technology officer at Publicis Kaplan Thaler where he oversaw the agency’s technology and innovation practice. Perhaps Hirsch’s most notable creative achievement to date is his contribution to the HBO “Voyeur” Project while at Big Spaceship. His team created a New York panorama that brought voyeuristic tales to life, illustrating HBO as a leader in both TV and storytelling via an initiative out of BBDO New York.
At Deutsch LA, Hirsch will lead the agency’s team of 55 in-house developers, which is known for building enterprise-level websites for brands like Volkswagen, social campaigns for Taco Bell, and digital product invention for Esurance and Pop Secret, among other things.
“We’ve made giant digital strides over the last three years, but we’re not content. Our goal is to be the best digital agency in the business,” said Winston Binch, chief digital officer at Deutsch LA. “Joshua is one of the smartest and most respected technologists in the advertising business.”
Hirsch got his start in the industry coding and designing websites. After stints as a senior designer/developer at Guggenheim.com and Asymptote, he joined Brooklyn digital agency Big Spaceship in 2002. Starting as the agency’s sole coder, he soon became a partner and minister of technology, serving as mentor and leader of the technology team responsible for building numerous award-winning digital projects for over a decade.
Hirsch is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and a long-standing adviser on Adobe product launches.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More