Paul Stechschulte has joined Pereira & O’Dell as executive creative director in San Francisco. An art director by trade, Stechschulte was most recently with Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), San Francisco where he was group creative director. His career includes posts at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, 180 Amsterdam and Crispin Porter+Bogusky (CP+B) in Miami.
At GS&P he helped create the internationally award-winning Sprint “Now Network” campaign and served as group creative director on Sprint Nextel’s “Wedding” which earned a primetime commercial Emmy nomination in 2009. (“Wedding” was directed by Jim Jenkins of O Positive Films.)
In 2002 at CP+B, Stechschulte and colleagues reintroduced the MINI brand to the U.S. for BMW. The highly successful launch did not include a single television ad; unheard of in the American automobile marketplace. Additionally, he contributed creatively to the American Legacy Foundation’s “Truth” campaign (also with CP+B which worked jointly for the client with Arnold, Boston). The anti-tobacco campaign is credited with preventing hundreds of thousands of U.S. teens from starting to smoke.
Among those Stechschulte will collaborate with at Pereira & O’Dell is agency chief creative officer/co-founder PJ Pereira.
Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore Among Those Who Lost Homes in L.A. Fires
Fires burning in and around Los Angeles have claimed the homes of numerous celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore and Paris Hilton and led to sweeping disruptions of entertainment events.
Three awards ceremonies planned for this weekend have been postponed. Next week's Oscar nominations have been delayed. And tens of thousands of Angelenos are displaced and awaiting word Thursday on whether their homes survived the flames — some of them the city's most famous denizens.
More than 1,900 structures have been destroyed and the number is expected to increase. More than 130,000 people are also under evacuation orders in the metropolitan area, from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena, a number that continues to shift as new fires erupt.
Late Wednesday, a fire in the Hollywood Hills was scorching the hills near the famed Hollywood Bowl and Dolby Theatre, which is the home of the Academy Awards.
Here are how the fires are impacting celebrities and the Los Angeles entertainment industry:
Stars whose homes have burned in the fires
Celebrities like Crystal and his wife, Janice, were sharing memories of the homes they lost.
The Crystals lost the home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood that they lived in for 45 years.
"Janice and I lived in our home since 1979. We raised our children and grandchildren here. Every inch of our house was filled with love. Beautiful memories that can't be taken away. We are heartbroken of course but with the love of our children and friends we will get through this," the Crystals wrote in the statement.
Mandy Moore lost her home in the Altadena neighborhood roughly 30 miles east of the Palisades.
"Honestly, I'm in shock and feeling numb for all so... Read More