Action Figure News
Big Wig Winner
June 13, 2008
The Action Figures were voted by their peers, for the second consecutive year, as the best film/video/post production firm at the Austin Ad Federation Big Wig Award Ceremony last night. Ad Person of the Year went to Dave Kampa at McGarrah Jessee. Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Sherry Matthews.
The party was a 1920's themed event and Susan & Vicki were the Bee's Knees by sporting fully tasseled Flapper costumes.
Top 10 Viral Videos on MySpace
June 6, 2008
The Punches are still getting attention.
Last week it was a featured video on You Tube.
This week it's a MySpace top 10.
relearntodrive.com is National ADDY Winner
May 27, 2008
As a Region 10 gold ADDY winner, relearntodrive.com for GSD&M/BMW went on to win a Silver award in the national competition. Mark Miks directed the running footage and interviews with the drivers and Ariel Quintans cut the footage for the microsite.
Way to go, Guys.
BMW PDS is Golden
May 13, 2008
Action Figure entered the Austin ADDY's with interview and running footage directed by Mark Miks and edited by Ariel Quintans, for the BMW micro-site relearntodrive.com, where it won a Gold award. At the District 10 Regional Awards in Dallas on April 18th it won another Gold.
ADDY's are judged by tough juries of prestigious peers at the local, regional and national level. They review an enormous range of submissions of print, broadcast, internet and other work to find the best the industry has to offer in dozens of categories. The national ADDY's are in June at the AAF National Convention in Atlanta.
Agency: GSD&M/Idea City
Producer: Aaron Kovan
Creatives: Chad Laughlin and Ryan Martinidale
Client: BMW of North America
"Downtown" Austin Heads South
May 1, 2008
"Downtown" Austin's award winning series about the people, culture and events of Downtown Austin has been picked up by San Antonio's Public Broadcast station, KLRN. The station programmers felt that the shows content would be entertaining and informative for the wider Hill Country audience.
Get Flocked
March 20, 2008
Check out Dan Brown's promotional video for Planet Cancer on flamingoagogo.com. Planet Cancer is a nation wide support group for young adults with cancer.
Director: Dan Brown
DP: Shane Kelly
Editor: Ariel Quintans
Music: Tequila Mockingbird
Boys in the House
March 5, 2008
Tex-Mex rock trio Los Lonely Boys recently recorded their much anticipated third album in our very own East Side Stages. And who better to capture the behind-the-scenes footage during their visit than resident director/prankster Mark Miks. Stay tuned for a peak!
AF Won Two Awards at The Austin Show, 2008 Addy Awards
February 28, 2008
Gold ADDY Award in Online, Micro or Mini Sites for Mark Miks and Ariel Quintans work with GSD&M's IdeaCity on Relearn to Drive for BMW. Silver ADDY Award in Online, Webisodes for Dan Brown, Ariel Quintans and Sandra Guardado's work with FameCast for the Rock Stage Finals documentary.
THE PUNCHES ARE ON FIRE
January 18, 2008
Action Figure accomplice and buddy Cory Kilduff, the TX half of the dirty disco/house/electro duo Ocelot took the recently acquired footage of the AF crew punching each other in the face at 1000 frames per second and repurposed it to his remix of the Robyn track "Be Mine". Since then the "music video" has been blowing up the music blog scene, catching fire from notable music resources as Pitchfork, Stereogum and XLR8R, among at least another couple dozen others. Most recently the video got written up on the local scenester tastemaking webjawn Austinist.com.
Action Figure. Blowing up your face for 2008.
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Punch This
December 3, 2007
what happens when director Mark Miks gets his hands on a Phantom HD camera and has a little time on his hands? he lines up the action figure crew one by one and has his way with them...
(Yow! to AQ for the kick-ass edit)