January 19, 1996/Director Terry Windell has signed with A Band Apart Commercials, Hollywood. Windell has been in the market since his last commercial roost, Marina del Rey, Calif.-based Boss Film Studios, closed in August…. The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has named Robert M. Greenberg, chairman/CEO of bicoastal R/GA Digital Studios, chair of this year’s AICP Show….Editor Steve Armstrong has joined Santa Monica-based Jigsaw. Armstrong had been cutting for the past two years via Red Car, Santa Monica….Charlie Curran, who had been serving as partner/executive producer at Ogilvy & Mather, New York, has exited that agency and joined Bates USA, New York, as senior VP/director of broadcast production….
JANUARY 18, 1991/Darr Hawthorne, a producer at Leo Burnett, Los Angeles, for six years, has left his post to become West Coast rep for graphics house Rhythm & Hues, Hollywood…. Editor Noel Oliver has exited Red Car, Los Angeles, to join the staff of Ace & Edie2, Hollywood. He replaces Richard Clark, who left in 1990 to launch his own shop, Richard Clark Editorial, Santa Monica….Mary Saxon has launched rep firm Mary Saxon Public Relations & Marketing, with a roster consisting of bicoastal Cherry Mellon Ibbetson & Associates; Hollywood-headquartered Red Car; and Bongiovanni & Anlauf Productions, Los Angeles….
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Tim Burton Discusses His Dread Of AI As An Exhibition of His Work Opens In London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits โ all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters "really disturbed me."
"It wasn't an intellectual thought โ it was just an internal, visceral feeling," Burton told reporters during a preview of "The World of Tim Burton" exhibition at London's Design Museum. "I looked at those things and I thought, 'Some of these are pretty good.' โฆ (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside."
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because "once you can do it, people will do it." But he scoffed when asked if he'd use the technology in this work.
"To take over the world?" he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
"I wasn't, early on, a very verbal person," Burton said. "Drawing was a way of expressing myself."
Decades later, after films including "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice," his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton's personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition's final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in... Read More