Cole Webley, whose spot roosts are Uber Content in the U.S. and Holiday Films in Canada, directed this self-financed passion project, a short film which inspired and is set to a poem written by Chateau Bezerra, an art director at AKQA. The two were university classmates and Webley went on to collaborate on some of the director’s first spec work.
“The film is a visual expression of the angst of being lost–emotionally,” explained Webley. “It represents something we all go through, and something that is integral to the human experience. We certainly don’t like it, but we almost can’t avoid feeling this way at some time or another.”
Feeling the need to re-charge his batteries, after a busy year shooting commercial films, Webley began this project as a personal creative outlet. He had been shooting a lot of footage and was in the process of editing it together, and trying to figure out a way to tie it all together, when he showed the footage to Bezerra who was immediately inspired to write the poem.
Webley instantly fell in love with the poem, and it provided him with the structure and the narrative he’d been seeking. He then shot more footage, to fill in the gaps, and began cutting it to the poem after the voiceover by Jessica Vizzone was recorded.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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