EARCOM UPDATE - MAY 2003
 
May 1, 2003

Audio

Joe Davi was commissioned to contribute the sound design and mix for Dance Theater Workshop's "Black Swan / White Swan," performed at NYC's Joyce Theater Downtown. He has also been writing musical scores for Sawyer Creative, including work for Colgate/Palmolive, Chase Manhattan, and M&T Bank.

Joseph Hornof supplied tracks for national TV spots for Diamond Walnuts, and contributed to a Starbucks Coffee promotional video. His music library has acquired new licensing contracts with a number of broadcast networks and other media outlets.

James LeBrecht and Berkeley Sound Artists have been providing sound design for some noteworthy films: the Oscar-nominated and Sundance-winning Daughter from Danang; The Cockettes, selected by both Sundance and the IFP; and Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, which received the Best Feature Documentary Award at Cinequest 2003. BSA recently completed post-production sound for the independent feature Dandelion, and the documentary Confessions of a Burning Man. Jim also sound designed and mixed Shout Creative's Destination PlayStation 2003.

Louis Lino scored a number of promo spots for Fox News Channel, and a series of HDTV promos for NBA-TV. Louis composed the soundtrack to an in-house video for Starwood Resorts, welcoming Sheraton, St. Regis, Westin and W customers to their rooms.

Greg Smith composed the music for a new Qwest commercial and scored Rock-A-Fella Films' "State Property" starring Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel. He has started soundtrack work on a horror movie for Artisan, as well as production work on the next album for Boney James, whose last record "Ride" was nominated for the Best Pop Instrumental Grammy, and was a Billboard #1.

Film & TV

Drew Carolan and Giles Clarke of CCM finished a behind the scenes documentary of the Lion's Gate feature film Wonderland starring Val Kilmer. Kilmer plays the infamous porn legend John Holmes, and is accompanied by an ensemble cast including Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Josh Lucas, Lisa Kudrow, Jeanine Garafalo, Eric Bogosian, Christina Applegate, Tim Blake-Nelson and Faizon Love. CCM produced and directed a Public Service Announcement for PETA featuring long time vegetarian Cory Feldman, shot and recorded at Joey Altruda's studio in Hollywood. Drew is also producing "Surfing Thru," a short documentary directed by Chloe Webb. The film chronicles three women who fight terminal cancer through surfing.

Tim Hays has been busy providing location recording and playback for commercials, music videos, and films. In the ad world, he worked with Paul Hunter on two campaigns for Nike, Paul Cappelli on spots for Jet Blue and Mike's Hard Lemonade, and Matthew Rolston on a Clairol spot starring Cindy Crawford. Plus spots for the new Jeep Rubicon, a top-secret NBC game show...the list goes on. Recent music videos have included a self-directed Marilyn Manson piece, "Superman" by Eminem, directed by Paul Hunter, and videos for several new artists: Kylie Dean (Matthew Rolston), Frankie Perez (Greggory Dark), The Thrills and Skin (Diane Martell), and Nodisha. Tim also finished a trailer for a soon to be in production film by writer/director David Veloz.

Kevin Moseley's work in the world of Discreet's Flame continues to live large: his scenes in X2: X-Men United hit the screen on May 2. That's Kevin, not Phoenix, holding back the water so the X-Jet can escape. On the small screen, he continues to add credits to his list of national ads, including spots for Qwest Communications at Digital Kitchen and Capri Sun at Digital Domain.

Design

Benjamin Allen is currently working on logo design and style guides for Oracle's Middleware Architecture Series, and designing a new identity package for Carolan Clarke Media. Ben is also building two small sites from the ground up for an entrepreneurship organization targeting college campuses.

Nick Allen continues to design for Moonstone Hotel Properties, completing websites for the Sea Coast Lodge, La Mancha Resort, and The Wine Affair. He has finished photographing the Village Green, a hotel in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and is about to begin a website for the Cambria Nursery and Florist. Nick has constructed new artist portfolios and created a web directory for Central Coast Artists of California, built a smaller portfolio of his own ocean wave photography, and has expanded his retailing of fine art prints.

Christian Bentley completed redesigning the website for the San Francisco nightclub Bruno's, and soon will be launching a new site for San Francisco's Andrews Hotel. He created a Flash site for Charles Schwab's Active Trader Workshop, a course in investor education.

Dan Psomas has launched three new websites: limcoairepair.com - a complete re-design adding search functionality on parts manufacturing and repair. Based in Oklahoma, Limco Airepair is a leader in the manufacture and servicing of critical aerospace components. SFownhome.com - for San Francisco real estate agent, Janet Schindler. An easy-to-use administrative section enables her office to add new listings, pictures, and PDF files to the site. And caesl.org - a site for a non-profit organization engaged in student testing. After completing the initial design, HTML templates were created for CAESL's webmaster, who is responsible for maintaining the site's content.

Jon Williams and Manmade have been hard at work, designing a complete promotional package for the band Voivod, including a website, CD packaging, Flash e-card, posters, and print advertising. They recently completed several branding projects including: a website, apparel, flags, banners, and a comprehensive printed business system for the San Francisco non-profit organization Horizons; an identity and brochure for a traditional Chinese clinic; and identity and signage for the cosmetics display case company Etalage. Manmade is also currently developing a combined print and online marketing campaign for their client 4by6.com.

Code

Benjamin Allen assisted in Manmade's redesign of the 4by6.com web application, involving HTML, javascript, and ASP, collaborated with Christian Bentley on the Andrews Hotel website, and wrote cgi-bin and Perl scripts for projects with Dan Psomas. Together with GreenKey, he's developing a web cluster and load balancing environment. Ben provided HTML optimization for California Select Insurance Agency, and is continuing his work on wireless "Wi-fi" Internet development in conjunction with InReach Communications.

Mark Biek has been consulting for ZFrame, building a suite of custom HTML forms for collecting data on desktops, Palms, and PocketPCs. He has been maintaining his position as a programmer analyst with The Stevenson Company, working on the TraQline web tool for interactive market research reports, the company's primary product. Mark has also been writing customer surveys in XML, data processing applications in Perl, and statistical analysis programs in SAS.

Brent Williams completed a website for the State of Californiaäs Office of the Patient Advocate. The site provides report cards on health care services offered by HMOäs and medical groups. Every page has been fully translated into Spanish and traditional Chinese, allowing users to switch from one language to another. The project employs XML, XSLT, Microsoftäs SQL Server database, and Microsoftäs Active Server Pages programming platform. Brent also re-engineered websites for the Pacific Business Group on Health and PacAdvantage. Based on templates created in Macromediaäs Dreamweaver MX program, all of the online content can now be accessed via Macromediaäs visual content editing tool, Contribute, enabling the site owners to edit content, add pages, create hyperlinks, and upload files themselves.

Concept

David Yetter maintains his position as a Senior Technical Writer for Siebel Systems. He also published the essay "Subjectifying the Objective" in "Underwords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld" (University of Delaware Press). His essay studies DeLillo's mutable third person narrative language in the novel Underworld; how the objective authority of the narrative language can mutate, ceding its authority to the subjective language of a specific character, or even an entire milieu.

Technical Talent is pleased with the progress Earcom has been making through the harsh current climate. He sees a beautiful day on the horizon, including the reintegration of marketing and production, brighter skies of true media convergence, and possibilities of new strategic partnerships.

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