Eric Anderson of LOGAN directed this piece which entailed a collaboration between Google and Audi, two clients of agency Venables, Bell & Partners, San Francisco. The video highlights the fact that Google Maps now powers the maps in Audi’s navigation systems.
A film with a dash of product demo, the video follows an Audi A4 as it makes its way through the streets of San Francisco as seen in the frozen worlds of Google Earth and Street View. The couple in the A4 make a handful of stops before heading to their final destination: their own impromptu wedding at Muir Beach. Oh, and about those pit stops: you can’t have a wedding without something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
Setting the story within the worlds of Google Earth and Street View wasn’t just a technique. Audi’s Google Maps-powered navigation system uses Google Earth, Street View, and Local Search to create an immersive and intelligent driving experience. And as the video shows, navigation isn’t just about getting from point A to point B. It’s about creating the perfect journey.
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