| Date: 2/2/2012 12:00:07 PM
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Jordan Moser (Azr) wins $10,000.00 on Stern
February 1st, 2012
Jordan Moser who mixes by the name AzR recently cashed in on the very popular multi-million listener radio show - THE HOWARD STERN SHOW. AzR picked up $10g's as the winner of the recent sound bite contest featured on the Stern Show website.
Jordan was able to take the posted (approved and not so clean) sound bites and mix together his original track featuring tidbits from Howard, Robin, Richard, JD., and many of the interesting and colorful guests that you can hear almost anytime on Howard 100, (Sirius/XM's most popular channel) with an estimated 5-6 million active listeners.
Non-withstanding, a few explicit sound bites and some inappropriate material for those brave enough to listen... Jordan was able to create a groovin original track. One of 5 finalists that were featured live on the show, once Howard played Jordan's "Howard Stern Is The Man" you knew he was a contender. "Howard was digging the groove and I felt good about my submission" "It was fun..and hey..$10g's comes in real handy" Jordan will be one of our featured talent at the upcoming ReelReview.tv Leap Year event being held in NYC on the 29th. Check out his work on the reelreview.tv site.
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| Date: 12/22/2011 10:27:59 AM
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IKA COLLECTIVE UNLOCKS "The Midnight Archive"
2012
The new web documentary series “The Midnight Archive” pulls back the curtain on some of the most eccentric and least explored characters in the world.
Produced by New York City-based IKA Collective, “The Midnight Archive” introduces viewers to such originals as: Sorceress Cagliastro, who will happily mummify your pet, and perhaps even you one day. Tattoo artist Sue Jeiven, who in her spare time turns Brooklyn roadkill into Victorian Styled Tableaus. Curious about where you can talk to the dead in New York City? The show follows Mitch Horowtiz, on his guided occult tour. It also takes viewers around the world with photographer Paul Koudounaris as he captures hidden Cathedrals built entirely of human bones.
The project is the brainchild of IKA Collective’s Senior Editor/Director Ronni Thomas, whose professional career has been everywhere from legend horror studio Troma Entertainment to working with iconic commercial and music video director Bob Giraldi. Thomas created this original webseries to shine a light on these intriguingly odd characters.
“I didn’t have any idea where this might lead,” explains Thomas. “Doing this series has been an eye opening experience for me, meeting people just like myself and realizing just how many people have the same interests. The most interesting thing to me is that beyond the subject matter, you have these incredible characters. And they range from what I call niche scholars to punk rock intellectuals. It’s that fringe element where art, science and history converge”
While the series can currently be seen at www.themidnightarchive.com, and on YouTube, IKA Collective is actively pursuing television distribution deals as well.
“One of the things that defines IKA Collective is our creative diversity," Ian Karr, Founder/Director of IKA Collective says. "We encourage everyone to follow their curiosities wherever they lead. Ronni is an amazing talent who also happens to deliver standing-room-only lectures on the strange and unusual. There’s no better person to pull back the curtain on this world and I think he’s done that in a really entertaining and informative way.”
“The Midnight Archive” springs from Thomas’s experiences lecturing at the Brooklyn Observatory, an artistic space in Brooklyn, NY, hosting screenings, classes and exhibitions focused on topics residing at the intersection of art and science, history and curiosity, magic and nature. After meeting many of these unusual characters, Thomas, Karr and producer Joanna Ebenstein (one of the founders of the Brooklyn Observatory), set out to share their stories with the world.
For Thomas, one of the things that he’s most proud of is that unlike most web series’ “The Midnight Archives” looks like something you might actually see on television.
“With so much content available online, to keep viewers coming back you have produce something that is not only interesting but also watchable," Thomas adds. “Our goal from the outset was to make a broadcast quality show for the Internet and that’s what we’ve accomplished.”
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| Date: 12/7/2011 11:52:08 AM
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Re:Think recreates holiday magic for Philips Norelco
December 2011
CHICAGO — Re:Think Studios (www.rethinkpost.com) completed new holiday spots for Philips Norelco that revive the company’s stop-motion campaign from the early 1990s. The :30 and :15 commercials promote Philips Norelco’s SensoTouch 3D rechargeable electric razor and feature an animated Santa riding the razor over snow-covered hills.
The commercials were originally conceived to serve as an interactive campaign, but the client decided to use then in their 2011 holiday broadcast schedule.
Walton Isaacson senior creative Andrew Holton and designer Diana Litavsky, along with freelance producer Nathan Brown of Nathan Brown Productions contracted Re:Think Studios to modernize the former campaign. Re:Think CD Brian Bullock says the goal was to respect the look and feel of the classic campaign, particularly the physical camera and the artistic quality of the stop-motion models.
BixPix Entertainment in Burbank, CA, fabricated the sets and a cast of characters. Bix Pix’s Drew Hodges directed and animated all the stop motion in their Burbank studio, and then zipped the files to Re:Think where the studio went to work on modeling and animating the 3D razor, creating the matte paintings for backgrounds, and fashioning elements that would help bring the scenes to life. Re:Think also handled editing, compositing and lighting the final piece. Re:Think founder Jessica Simmon performed the edited and assembled the final composite. The studio relied on Photoshop to create elements for the matte paintings and After Effects for compositing. Avid DS was used for editorial, final compositing and top-layer color. 3D modeling and animation was performed using Autodesk Maya, and Luxology’s Modo was used for rendering.
Another Country provided original sound design.
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| Date: 10/19/2011 9:15:41 PM
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AzR, Mixology Mixer tops 200,000 on YT
October 2011
Congrats go out to Mixology designer/mixer AzR for reaching over 200,000 hits on his musical/video tribute to Steve Jobs.
Watch on YouTube
"I made this song using only sounds from Apple products and Steve's 2005 Stanford commencement speech. Every instrument, including drums, has been sampled from a Mac product, tuned by ear, and replayed in the context of the song."
"I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed making it.
RIP Steve. We'll miss you"
AzR is working at Mixology Post, you can contact Rob Kahn for more info or vist www.mixologypost.com
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| Date: 9/16/2011 12:57:47 PM
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IKA COLLECTIVE IS SMITTEN WITH NEW GIRL.
September 2011
She’s quirky, sexy, and can totally hang with the guys….oh and did I mention her name is Zooey? Zooey Deschanel! IKA got to hang with “500 Days of Summer” star on the set of her new FOX comedy. We chatted, ate craft services together, and totally shared some laughs… Okay, full disclosure, it was actually more of a work relationship. IKA shot the promos for her new show NEW GIRL. Director Paul Fuentes, who has an amazing talent for dialogue and comedy, once again totally delivered the goods. Behind the camera was Academy Award Winning DP Russell Carpenter (“Titanic”). Ian Karr exec. produced the spots and Gary Kout produced out of our LA office.
We are so thankful to the awesome team at FOX, Julio Cabral, VP On-Air Creative and Golareh Safarian, VP of Production, Special Ops. for the hilarious creative and for entrusting us with their NEW GIRL. And we couldn’t have pulled it all off without IKA Collective’s entire LA crew.
IKA Collective is located at 15 East 32nd St. New York, N.Y.
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| Date: 6/20/2011 9:10:01 AM
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Investigation Discovery’s New Series
“I Married A Mobster”
August 2011
IKA Collective just wrapped a shoot for the new hit series - Investigation Discovery’s
"I MARRIED A MOBSTER".
This must see series which provides an insider’s perspective into the reality of New York mafia families from the first-person point-of-view, was launched on July 13th 2011. "I Married A Mobster" is the new sister hit to the popular "Who the (BLEEP) Did I Marry?"
Launch promo produced by IKA Collective and directed by Ian Karr.
IKA Collective is located at 15 East 32nd St. New York, N.Y.
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| Date: 5/15/2011 11:10:59 AM
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– Actress Paola Baldion was featured in Portraits in a Sea of Lies"
For four days, NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) presentedt Colombia Zoom In, a program with the most recent productions in Colombian cinema. A variety of formats including features, documentaries, animations and short films in genres such as comedy, thriller, drama, musicals will highlight the innovation and creativity of talented contemporary Colombian filmmakers. The festival ran at the KJCC auditorium from Monday, May 23 to Thursday, May 26, 2011. All films were in Spanish with English subtitles.The festival closed on Thursday May 26, 7:00 p.m., with the presentation of Retratos en un mar de mentiras / Portraits in a Sea of Lies (Carlos Gaviria, 2010). Actress Paola Bandión, winner of Best Actress at Guadalajara Film Festival will be present for Q&A. After the death of their grandfather in a mudslide, Jairo, an itinerant photographer, and Marina, his young amnesic and mute cousin, decide to go back and try to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago. They travel from Bogotá to the Caribbean coast in an old beat-up Renault 4. During the trip the story of her traumatic past starts to unfold. Actress Paola Bandion (Retratos en un mar de mentiras) availabe for interviews.
Contact: Diana Vargas 917-658-7735 | press@dianavargas.com.
When: Monday, May 23 to Thursday, May 24, 2011
Hours: Monday May 23 at 7:00 p.m., Tues-Thur, May 24-26 from 6:00 p.m.
Where: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU.
53 Washington Square South (btw. Sullivan and Thompson Streets)
Trains: A, B, C, E, F, y M to West 4 and 1 to Christopher Street.
Price: Free. For more info please visit:
www.nyu.edu/kjc
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| Date: 4/13/2011 11:08:47 AM
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April, 2011
Mackie goes Viral with a Day Made of Glass
Corning Inc. is world renown for its specialty in glass and ceramics, providing solutions and advancements in technology; turning dreams into realities. “A Day Made of Glass” under the direction of Dave Mackie, went viral with over 11 million views on YouTube. Mackie gives viewers a glimpse into a routine day for a futuristic family. This technology not only captivates the eye, but also provides pragmatic value through ways of entertainment, navigation, and communication.
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| Date: 11/21/2010 6:44:09 PM
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New Jersey, November 04, 2010 – "Two Sisters Share Their Mirena Stories"
RedMaiden Director Palmer Enfield and Ogilvy CommonHealth Consumer Care set new standard for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals future patient testimonials.
Philadelphia-based RedMaiden Director Palmer Enfield raises the bar for patient testimonial videos in this video, “Two Sisters Share Their Mirena Stories, “ for Olgivy CommonHealth Consumer Care and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. The first video features the testimonials of two actual Mirena patients (who happen to be sisters), speaking openly and honestly about their individual experiences with Mirena and how it fits their hectic lives. The video is the first pre-cleared patient testimonial video to come out of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and is the first of a four-part video series to be featured on the Mirena website.
To view the video, please visit www.mirena-us.com - scroll down to the bottom of the page to the section headed, “A Birth Control Option Without a Daily Routine” - in the viewer choose the “Two Sisters Share Their Mirena Stories.”
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