Praxis Makes Time For Dodge Ram
CLIENT
Chrysler Corp./Dodge Ram.
PRODUCTION CO.
Praxis Films, Hollywood. Robert Blalack, director; Ward Russell, DP; Michael Fekete, executive producer; Paul Manix, producer. Shot at Raleigh Studios, Hollywood.
AGENCY
BBDO Detroit, Southfield, Mich. Richard Johnson, chairman/chief creative officer; Hugh Broder, senior VP/director of broadcast production/music producer; Dave Carnegie, senior VP/associate creative director/art director; Dan Moshier, senior VP/copywriter; Bob Monement, producer.
EDITORIAL
Kutz inc., Farmington Hills, Mich. Dennis Kutzen, editor.
POST
Kutz inc. Dennis Kutzen, online editor. CIS Hollywood, Los Angeles. Steve Bowman, colorist.
VISUAL EFFECTS
Station X Studios, Santa Monica. Greg Teegarden, visual effects/ compositing supervisor; Enrique Munoz, CGI supervisor; Darcy Leslie, CGI producer; Meni Tsireas, visual effects supervisor; Peter Baustaedter, matte painter/compositor.
AUDIO POST
GTN, Oak Park, Mich. Jay Scott, mixer.
MUSIC
Yessian Music, Farmington Hills. Kurt Schrietmueller, composer/arranger; Dan Yessian, executive producer/arranger; Tony Campana, engineer.
THE SPOT
In the :30 "Hourglass," four models of Dodge Ram pickup trucks each rise up on an elevator and drive across a ramp, finally stopping under a glass dome. The trucks’ pickup beds are quickly filled with sand, and the camera pulls back to reveal an enormous hourglass and an endless succession of trucks, all ready to receive a full payload of sand that measures time.
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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 — 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 — 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.' … (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