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.

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We are thrilled to report that we have completed shooting an online reality show for a health and beauty brand that was made in conjunction with a major publications…whew..neverthought we’d get that out in one breath!  Sorry for the ambiguity, but our 5 million dollar NDA won’t allow us to give out details…As soon as there’s a window to talk, we will let the cat out of the bag. On a different note, we have just closed sponsorship of our online series, “Couch Crashers”.  The series follows two commedians as they “bring the funny” in the most outrageous situations…It will air on Playboy.com (keep your pants on fellas, it’s not THAT kind of show…or is it?) 

This video is from last year at TED.  It’s 20 minutes long and it gives some insight on his creative process.

The campaign we recently worked on with Ad Agency – Ground Zero makes “ad of the day” in Ad Week.

Here’s the link to the posting  and text below:

Ground Zero has launched a quirky and multifaceted California-only campaign for Parrot, a France-based provider of wireless communications technology. The work is timed to coincide with the state’s new hands-free cellphone driving mandate. Along with billboards and radio spots, the effort includes elements such as viral videos, wild postings, fake “parrot droppings” on cars and a letter-writing push on parrotsnotquails.com that jokingly attempts to persuade Gov. Schwarzenegger to impeach the California state bird (the quail) in favor of the parrot. The campaign points out in tongue-in-cheek fashion that the quail, after all, has held office for 77 years and garnered no measurable results. –Gregory Solman

Diligent developed and produced interactive touch screens for the newest exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles which launches today.

“Thomas the Tyrannosaurus rex, a 66-million-year-old dino excavated between 2003 and 2005 in southeastern Montana, is gradually taking shape at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. And starting Sunday, visitors will be able to watch as paleontologists reconstruct the skeleton, thanks to a new glass-enclosed lab.

Here’s the full text from the article in USA Today
And here’s a link to the exhibit home page

The Museum of Natural History has contracted Diligent to design and develop interactive touch screens for their newest installation.More information to come! http://www.nhm.org/http://dinosaurs.nhm.org/