Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

Composer Krishna Venkatesh has joined jsm/music, New York. Venkatesh comes to jsm from a background as a pop music composer who has been a member of several bands.

Venkatesh incorporates a mix of traditional and electronica influences into his compositions. His diverse musical exploits...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

Young & Rubicam (Y&R), Chicago, has hired Mark Figliulo as its chief creative officer. Since early '98, the Chicago-based Figliulo had been represented as a commercial director by Dark Light Pictures, West Hollywood (SHOOT, 2/13/98, p. 8).

Before he shifted to directing, Figliulo...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

D. J. Dole, executive producer/partner at Us 2 Editorial, has opened Switchblade, a postproduction service offering offline and online editorial as well as graphic design for commercials, feature films, episodic television and the Internet. Switchblade will primarily facilitate freelance editors...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

If you were watching television around 9 p.m. local time on November 1, chances are you saw Ford Motor Company's millennial effort, "Goodbye/Hello." That's when the two-minute branding piece broke in what Detroit agency J. Walter Thompson (JWT) called an unprecedented worldwide roadblock....

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

Manarchy Film, Chicago, has signed episodic director Todd Holland (The Larry Sanders Show, Felicity) for commercial representation.

Manarchy executive producer Dan Lundmark said it was Holland's work on the '92-'98 HBO cable series The Larry Sanders Show that prompted him to approach the...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

If there were an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most animation styles used in the shortest period of time, Iron Kids Bread's "IronKid n' Wheel Skiddin'" may just take the prize. The :30 incorporates 23 animation styles ranging from clay animation to paper cut-out animation...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

FOR PROPERLY EQUIPPED postproduction companies, the world surrounding high-definition television is as inspiring a business development as digital effects for movies was when it burst onto the scene nine or ten years ago.

You're saying, "So why am I not excited?" Probably because of all...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

New York-based The Shooting Gallery has signed Chicago-based rep Rich Newman of Rich Newman Associates to handle Midwest sales for the company....Sharon Lew of New York-based Lew & Co. has been named East Coast rep for Orbit Productions, Los Angeles….Jim O'Hagen has been named as U.S. sales...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

Nov. 9/New York: Freelance Producers Network meeting at CapTV. (917) 933-5566….Nov. 9/New York: Media Services' commercial accounting software demonstrations. (917) 3054-8309; steve@media-services.com….Nov. 10/New York: AAF Advertising Hall of...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

One Union Recording Studios, San Francisco, has unveiled its digital 5.1 surround sound studio, featuring Euphonix's System 5 high-performance digital audio mixing console. One Union's purchase of the System 5 has been billed as the first installation of the console in the professional audio...

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