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July 2007

LIGHTBORNE CREATES MUSIC VIDEO FOR HEARTLESS BASTARDS

Showing off its conceptual, directorial and design prowess, Lightborne has created a quirky, psychedelic and inventive music video for Fat Possum recording artists Heartless Bastards. "All This Time" is a powerful declaration of loyalty and affection by vocalist Erika Wennerstrom to her partner and fellow bassist, Mike Lamping. Co-Directors Scott Fredette and Dana Hamblen, who knew the band personally, were given free reign in concepting and producing the video. The video takes Wennerstrom on an "Alice in Wonderland"-like scavenger hunt put on by her bandmates. Signs and vibrant motion graphics point her to various destinations where she meets unusual characters such as a Hunter S. Thompson-style urban beach bum (drummer Kevin Vaughn) who keeps the company of weirdly dressed mannequins, and offers her sake and a cootie catcher. During the chorus, graphic backgrounds and animated rainbow ribbons take Wennerstrom and the band into another world akin to a fall down the rabbit hole. The delightful video c oncludes when the bandmates, dressed in "American Gothic" garb, are reunited at their final destination: home.

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VENICE ARTS GALLERY EXHIBITS PHOTOGRAPHY & EXPERIMENTAL WORK FROM YOUNG WOMEN ARTISTS/PHOTOGRAPHERS

In June of 2007, Venice Arts Gallery proudly presented an exhibit of experimental work by a group of young women Artists/Photographers -- all students in the Venice Arts Advanced Studies Program, whose ages ranged from 14-16. This innovative body of work included photographs from Artists/Photographers Ursula Barker, Esme Jackson, Elena Nardini, Alex Thomas and Francesca Thomas. Running through June 30, 2007, the exhibit featured documentary photography, self-portraits, environmental portraits, and experimental work. Joanne Kim, Lead Artist/Mentor at Venice Arts said "Each artist has developed her own eye and voice through photography, and I'm constantly in awe of their abilities to tap into their creativity and express themselves through this medium."

Venice Arts, located at 1809 Lincoln Blvd., Venice CA 90291, is a nonprofit organization that has been providing innovative, free photography, digital and media art programs to low-income youth in Los Angeles for the past 13 years.

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CUT + RUN'S WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY YIELDS TESCO MILK SPOT

The team behind the highly acclaimed Tesco "Bags for Life" spot - agency The Red Brick Road, Director Neil Harris of Stink and Editor Steve Gandolfi -- were recently reunited for a hilarious new Tesco advert that was produced in a single weekend.

"Tesco Milk" stars two of UK's favorite television actors Martin Clunes and Fay Ripley on an idyllic country camping trip. Clunes, in an effort to prove he is outdoorsy and not as "hopeless" as Ripley claims, sets off, pail in hand, to find a cow to milk for a refreshing breakfast beverage. Instead of the daunting hands-on approach, he goes for the easier route - fresh Local Choice milk from regional farms via Tesco. He returns, triumphant: "you can't beat milk straight from a Cornish cow!" "Delicious," agrees Ripley, "Especially how it comes out so delightfully chilled."

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SWITCHFOOT HAS AWAKENING THANKS TO BOOM DIRECTOR BRANDON DICKERSON

BOOM's Brandon Dickerson recently completed an innovative and playful music video for alt-pop band Switchfoot. The video stars Tony Hale (Stranger Than Fiction, Arrested Development), Adam Campbell (Epic Movie) and Jayma Mays (Heroes, Ugly Betty) in a surreal cardboard cut-out battle to find out who reigns supreme in the realm of music-based gaming.

To accomplish this comedy-laden face off, Dickerson employed the use of live action combined with a fully animated television composed of hand-torn photographic images (or the Dickerson-coined "photomation"). This innovative technique involved printing 1,224 frames of live action footage (with 5 printers over 22 hours). The images were then hand torn (by 10 people over the course of 16 hours) for a purposely organic, hand crafted look, organized by time code into 1,224 envelopes and then and photographed in a cardboard box "performance space" at 24 FPS one frame at a time (stop motion animation). The result is a video that "has the playfulness and imagination of a project devised by sophomore friends ditching school and messing around with someone's dad's camera equipment in a garage," says Dickerson - a high concept, low-fi combination that stands out from the mainstream.

To date, the video has received over half a million hits on YouTube and is also being shown on FuseTV.

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