Diligent wins two Silver 2010 Communicator Awards for On the Rise: Jadyn Maria!

Another great project that we worked on with Connnective Tissue for Herbal Essences..

Here’s a bit about the Communicator Awards:

With thousands of entries received from across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals.  Please visit www.communicatorawards.com to view the full winners list.

The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 550+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.  Current IAVA membership represents a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including:  Condè Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Keller Crescent, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Tribal DDB, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others.  See www.iavisarts.org for more information.

“As we continue our mission to honor Creative Excellence for Communications Professionals, we were once again amazed at the high level of work we received for this year’s Communicator Awards. With this year’s entries we found an increased awareness and reflection of the digital world in which we live, and our entrants always seem to find new and creative ways to push the envelope of possibilities across all mediums” noted Linda Day, director of the IAVA.  She added, “We are honored to witness the amazing work being done throughout the industry and want to commend and congratulate this year’s Communicator Award Winners and Entrants for their hard work and dedication.  On behalf of the entire Academy – Job well done.”

We’ve won a Bronze 2010 Telly for our program, Tressed to Impress..

It was a great project that we worked with Connective Tissue on for Herbal Essences…

Here’s a bit about the Telly Awards:

The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web.Since 1978, our mission has been to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity. The 30th Annual Telly Awards received over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.

Ron Eigen will be on a jury judging a branded entertainment category for this year’s nextMEDIA Banff conference.

About Banff

The Banff World Television Festival is the world’s premiere television content creation event and annual forum for business and creative opportunities for those in television and new media.

The Festival will take place June 13-16, 2010 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies. For the first time, the festival will run concurrently with nextMEDIA Banff, bringing together the television and digital media communities for a truly unique cross-platform event, offering networking, seminars, keynote speeches and pitching opportunities that reflect the growing convergence of television and digital media.

The Festival combines a prestigious international program competition, the Banff World Television Awards, with a comprehensive conference agenda. It is a marketplace of ideas, generating co-production deals, enabling new business relationships and bringing to light future trends of the industry. As well as honouring excellence in international television, the Festival provides a global platform for industry members to network, discuss, debate, and explore current issues and challenges.

The International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Alloy Media + Marketing, Coach, Conde Nast, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Keller Crescent, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Tribal DDB, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, and Yahoo!

MISSION

There are four primary goals of the IAVA:

1) To facilitate the vibrant exchange of new ideas, business models and trend information in the visual arts

2) To sanction and oversee awards and recognition programs to identify and reward excellence in the visual arts

3) To provide a networking opportunity for members of the IAVA for professional advancement

4) To educate members and promote innovative thinking about the constantly changing nature of media, including advertising, print, film, television & interactive

This is very exciting as this will give us an opportunity to help educate and learn about new and exciting technologies and was to showcase visual art.

To learn more go to:

http://www.iavisarts.org/index.php

The project we produced for Herbal Essences, On the Rise, is now being aired on SiTV and MTV tres as two minute podbusters! So, if you have those channels, make sure you tune in and let us know what you think of the them!

We recently worked with Jon Reep (Winner of Last Comic Standing and The “Hemi” Guy from those Dodge commercials) to put together some sketches for his new Comedy Central DVD released by Warner Bros and produced by Generate.

One of the sketches deals with the very serious issue of Corn Addiction, which in Jon’s case, leads to an a dramatic Intervention.  Another sketch makes  fun of Jon’s experience meeting with entertainment execs who try to get him to act more “Southern”.

You can pick up the DVD on Jon’s website here.

Episode 1:  Jadyn puts the finishes touches on her album and gets ready to hit the road to becoming a Pop Star!

Episode 2:  Jadyn’s Glamour Nov 2009 Photoshoot with special guest…Neyo!

Episode 3: Jadyn’s hitting the NY press scene and meeting Miss Saigon, Jadyn’s DJ, for her first US performance! (coming up in Episode 5).

Episode 4:  Jadyn hits the streets of LA for fun in the sun and, of course, shopping!

Episode 5:  Jadyn’s first US performance in the famed, Chicago Theater, where she performs her smash single, Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boys!

Our latest project - On The Rise, sponsored by Herbal Essences, is coming soon to an Internet connection near you.

We followed Jadyn Maria, budding pop star and protégé of recording superstar NeYo from Atlanta to NY, LA and Chicago on her whirlwind journey to fame.  Starting on October 6^th, go to Glamalert.com/ontherise to witness the birth of a Pop Star.

While some people’s offices look out on city skylines, or beaches, for the last week or so, we have been privelaged with a lovely view of an ominous thick billow of smoke looming over the LA Basin.

Check out this cool time lapse of the smoke:

Timelapse – Los Angeles Wildfire