3May
2010

No News Is Good News!

Woowwwzaaas!!! The old adage: “No News Is Good News” has grown new legs here at Maneater.
Zip, Zoom, and there went April. We have been good, busy, and growing like deep sea flesh eating weeds.

We’re excited to announce our signing with Press Kitchen & Social Butterfly. These veterans of production industry PR are selective in who they work with and we are glad that they see the light in Maneater. We’re looking forward to a great year of PR with Virgina, Kim and Shaun of Press Kitchen and a fresh flutter on our ‘Social Networking’ with Sarah of Social Butterfly.

Head of Production, Sean Newhouse, has been trailblazing and setting systems here at Maneater. Under Sean’s direction we’ll be carving some things in stone and coming up with ways to make the life of stone carving and office stuffs ‘out of the box’. We’re in good hands with Mr. Newhouse and glad to have his steady hand at the helm!

Sean rejoined us just in time to boost our efforts on the “Blue Project”. This was Director Steven Lippman’s well conceived idea to weave select ocean charities of the world together to put forth a unified message of Global Oceanic Conservation. Molly MacDonald developed the project with Steven while Sean and Molly secured known activists such as Brandon Boyd and Pierce Brosnan to be featured in the piece. The shoot took place on Earth Day weekend in Malibu at project contributor Debbie Frank’s home. Also featured are Scott Caan, Caroline Burckle, Anna Cummins, Harry Gesner, Nick Behunin & Chris Jensen, John Paul Dejoria, Chris Malloy, and Tatjana Patitz on behalf of charities such as Surf Aid International, The Surfrider Foundation, Surfer’s Healing, International Fund for Animal Welfare, 5 Gyres, ASR, Save The Waves, Dolphinaid, Water Keeper Alliance, and Oceana. Many people and organizations came together to donate their time and resources to support Steven’s effort. Equipment was provided by Quixote, Camera by Smashbox Digital, Cinematography by Gary Waller, Federico Verardi, and Ernesto Lomeli, Production Design by David Ross, Scripting by Jody Wilson, Catering by Love Catering, and production support by 3 Star Productions. Malibu Magazine will be featuring the stills portion of our shoot as a 20page editorial in their June “Blue Issue”.

April also marked our amazing New Media shoot with The All American Rejects and JVC Mobile Entertainment. Steven Lippman Directed with agency Creative Director Danny Klein and JVC GM of Marketing Chad Vogelson vibing in to make the shoot magic. It was an action packed 2day extravaganza and is rolling through post well at Sunset Edit. This is year three for the Turn Me On campaign and promises to be bigger and better than ever. We’ll post the final cut end of May.

Jed James (Maneater EP), Chad Vogelsong (JVC), Tyson Ritter (ARR), Steven Lippman (Maneater Director)
Matthias Koenigswieser (DP), Danny Klein (e2amp), Chris Detert (American Rebel PR)