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Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Robins
Industry veteran Mike Dowd has launched Vapor Post, a Miami-based digital postproduction boutique. Vapor Post is the new facility identity for AVC, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., founded by Dowd in 1986. Dowd moved the entire AVC operation from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami this month, but the AVC moniker...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
New Launch In New York Is Suspect
Rob Appelblatt and Tim Crean have left New York visual effects/design house Guava—where they were producer and senior visual effects artist, respectively—and launched Suspect, New York. Now at their own visual effects facility, Crean has assumed the title of partner/Flame artist, while Appelblatt...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Blindfaith For Jim Manera, Tracy Hauser
Director Jim Manera and executive producer Tracy Hauser have teamed with veteran spot production house entrepreneur Michael Romersa to launch blindfaith, a Santa Monica house that will specialize in mainstream commercialmaking, emerging advertainment and varied content. Romersa is a participating...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Smith Confirmed As DGA Spot Winner
In response to questions regarding the eligibility of two spot entries, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) is standing firmly behind its award judges' selection of Baker Smith as best commercial director of 2002. Smith, co-founder of Santa Monica-based Harvest, won the honor at the DGA Awards...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
MARCH 13, 1998/Bruce Dowad of Hollywood-based Dowad Associates has been named Best Commercial Director of 1997 by the Directors Guild of America….Regina Ebel, BBDO New York senior VP/group head of TV production, has been promoted to director of television production, a post that had been vacant...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Off Madison Ave. Hits The Jackpot At Casino Del Sol
They are the original garage band: a trio of teenagers playing rock music, loudly and badly, in a garage located in a quiet suburban neighborhood. A respectable-looking woman drives up to the house next door and uses a remote to open her own garage door, revealing a collection of loudspeakers. She...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Blind Spot Media Adds Director Wayne Robins
Director Wayne Robins has signed with Blind Spot Media, Santa Monica and Dallas, for exclusive U.S. commercial representation. The deal marks his first spot roost. Robins continues to be handled by Los Angeles-based RW Media for music videos. He also maintains his own company, Sonar Productions,...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design and Equipment Briefs
SHORT CUTS Bent Image Labs , Portland, Ore., created and produced four "ugly" promos for regional affiliate UPN 49. "Plumber," "Heimlich," "Housefly" and "Dentist" depict situations in which the UPN 49 logo cube gets vomited, yanked, pulled from a drain or swatted. "Plumber" shows major butt crack...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces Carlos Bayala has joined the Amsterdam office of Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) as co-executive creative director, partnering with Jon Matthews. Bayala had previously been with W+K, Portland, Ore. Mel Kreilein , senior art director, and Bill Hollister , copywriter, have joined Cramer-Kresselt,...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Editors
In "Cool Cuts" SHOOT talks to a few of the editors who worked an ads that led to Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards nominations. Gavin Cutler of MacKenzie Cutler, New York, edited two of Baker Smith's winning DGA entries. The mono-monikered Katz of bicoastal Cosmo Street cut one of Dante...