Carnegie Hall's 'Ancient Paths, Modern Voices' Festival Celebrates Chinese Culture in Orange County By Leslie Feibleman The inaugural festival presented under the partnership between Carnegie Hall and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Ancient Paths, Modern Voices will feature performances by leading international musicians, including some artists and ensembles traveling outside China for the first time. In Southern California, the festival will include Western symphonic and chamber music influenced by Chinese culture, traditional folk music and contemporary music as well as traditional marionette theater, film screenings, art exhibitions and much more. ...Read More »

Steve is back - and with new iPods! Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc. ...Read More »

Shooters Post & Transfer Creates 'Defining Moments' For MASN Shooters Post & Transfer, the full-service creative post house, stepped up big-time for MASN, (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), the Baltimore, MD-based regional sports network owned jointly by the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, handling the production with a cast of real fans, and the complex post production that centered on creating intricate 3D virtual sets that evoked the iconic look of Camden Yards and Nationals Park -- the home stadiums for Orioles and Nationals respectively. The 20-spot branding campaign was created by the Washington, DC-based agency Rosenthal Partners, and directed by Peter Churchman of Churchman Productions, Ardmore, PA. ...Read More »

Explosion Robinson Scores Show Open for VH1's New Reality Series 'The T.O. Show' NFL star receiver Terrell Owens has two sides: good-natured, happy-go-lucky Terrell and the cocky, brash superstar who prefers to go simply by his initials T.O. Both personalities are on view in VH1's new reality series The T.O. Show, and thanks to Explosion Robinson, the custom music and sound design shop founded by Stephen Hermann, you hear them equally well in the show's open. ...Read More »

Improve Audio Experience in Linux-Based Netbooks By Steven Tellman and Henry Wong As our society becomes ever-more mobile, our digital devices continue to get smaller. We can listen to our entire musical library on an iPod that weighs less than 5 ounces. The shrinking of our digital devices is also being seen in our computers, as ultra-thin notebooks are no longer the smallest things around. Customers wanting to stay connected without compromising computing power are turning to netbooks. ...Read More »

BOND Audio Sounds Good With New Heineken Beer Campaign Building on the general market campaign for Heineken featuring actor John Turturro, BOND Audio's Sound Designer/Engineer Joe Casalino teamed with agency The Vidal Partnership to create a similar eight-spot featuring actor Nestor Carbonell, known to many for his role on the TV show Lost and in the hit movie The Dark Knight. ...Read More »

Blue Room Shoots Five Spots For NFL.Com Fantasy Files and Reebok Produced by Blue Room, the award-winning NFL Fantasy Files have been reopened. Filmed for NFL.com and Reebok, the viral campaign began rolling out one spot a week on July 20 on NFL.com, NFL Network s Total Access and Reebok.com. Designed to incite fantasy football signups and interest for NFL.com, the series of five :30 spots features NFL stars: Joe Flacco (Baltimore Ravens), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh Steelers), Maurice Jones-Drew (Jacksonville Jaguars), Darren Sproles (San Diego Chargers) and Kevin Boss (NY Giants). ...Read More »

Erotic Los Angeles By John Haley Although it was smaller than other conventions of its kind, I'd say the entire show was a good turnout for the companies who were there. Like other businesses in the current economy, the adult entertainment industry isn't enjoying the same kind of success it has in the past, but it's important for trade shows like this one to educate buyers, retailers, and their audiences. The major companies want you to know that they're coming up with better product for their consumers all the time. ...Read More »

Apple updates Final Cut Studio Apple has updated its Final Cut Studio suite of professional creative applications with more than 100 new features, as well as new versions of its Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Compressor applications. ...Read More »

PMcD Design Creates Original Show Branding/Promo Campaign For Fox Reality Channel If you're a fan of reality television, then you've no-doubt seen pixelation -- the technique networks often use to hide questionable content. Award-winning design house PMcD Design, part of the transmedia branding and design group LORI PATE+, has referenced that technique to create a comprehensive branding and promotional tool for Fox Reality Channel's original programming. ...Read More »

BOND Edits Touching New Sprint Ad With Timely Economic Message Money may be tight nowadays, but a new ad for Sprint called "Learnings" (:30) from agency The Vidal Partnership, New York, featuring editorial/post work from BOND (http://www.bondedit.com) editor Sebastian Wainstein, elegantly highlights how people are changing their behavior and saving money in creative ways, including taking advantage of Sprint's money-saving Family Data Plan. ...Read More »

Bud Light Lime Serves-Up Summer State of Mind in High-Profile Broadcast Spots from Stardust and DDB Chicago Bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios is very proud to detail its close collaborations with the creative team from DDB Chicago for Bud Light Lime. For the project, one :30 and two :15 design-intensive broadcast spots entitled "The Summer State of Mind" created by Stardust debuted on May 10 during high-profile U.S. primetime broadcast coverage, like the 2009 NBA playoffs, and continue to air widely. ...Read More »

Bridges Media Joins the "Fight for the Pride" with Spots for USA Today/Cannes Young Lions Competition Bridges Media, LLC recently completed production and post production work on two :30 spots, "Feast" and "Prowl," for the 2009 USA Today/Cannes Young Lions "Team USA" Competitions. ...Read More »

Introducing the Red Bull Big Tune Webisodic Series and BET TV Special Innovative motion design and production company Monkeyhead is very proud to detail its opening titles and custom graphics package created for the Red Bull Big Tune documentary webisodic series, and for the forthcoming Big Tune Documentary Special set to air in April on BET. ...Read More »

Hyperbolic Audio Launches A Top Caliber, One-Stop Audio Shop. . . And That's No Exaggeration Some say a picture is worth a thousand words. However, partners Julian Rebolledo and Sean Elias-Reyes believe that the core of great storytelling is the skillfully crafted fusion of sound that gives voice to visual imagery. Their passion for this genre initially drew them to careers as actors, musicians and successful voice talent - but ultimately, their desire to work in the optimum audio environment was the genesis for the launch of New York's newest sound house--Hyperbolic Audio. ...Read More »

Sundance Festival to Feature Emerging Talent, Prominent Composers and Icons of Rock in Film and Live Performances By Gregg Schwenk This year's Sundance offers a celebration of seminal rock and rollers, persecuted musicians risking their lives to be heard, artists creating the pulse of cinema through inventive scores and soundtracks, and a Grammy award-nominated rapper who is by no means "little." The 25th Sundance Film Festival runs from January 15-25, in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. A complete list of films and events is available at www.sundance.org/festival. ...Read More »

Managing Media: Adobe Metadata: Part One By Mike Jones The most profound shifts in creative technologies can often be distilled to distinct keywords; idea-terms that encompass a range of tools, techniques and technologies. In the current age of digital software suite packages, that keyword is Metadata. ...Read More »

E For All : Awesome Fatal1ty By Ko Maruyama Since E3 went into hiding from public view, E For All started up in an attempt to not only show gamers and game fans what might be in store for them, but also host different competitions for pro and amateur gamers alike. There is no gamer more visible than Johnathan FATAL1TY Wendel. ...Read More »

Power Support Protection By John Haley Power Support is a company which makes products for protecting our screens. Whether you have an iPhone, iPod Touch/Classic, chances are they have something that will save your tech from trouble. ...Read More »

Ant Neely: Not Fit for Human Consumption By Ko Maruyama Ant Neely, musician and Mac enthusiast has been scoring a show out of the Netherlands. The actors use motion capture to grab all of the action then transfer the data to 3D characters. While talking to Ant about the show, I also found out that he is also geotracking his latest CD: Not Fit for Human Consumption ...Read More »