Fear the Boom and Bust goes Viral

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:36:25 -0500

In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there's a "boom and bust" cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.

Get the full lyrics, story and free download of the song in high quality MP3 and AAC files at:

http://www.econstories.tv

Plus, to see and hear more from the stars of Fear the Boom and Bust, Billy Scafuri and Adam Lustick, visit their site: http://www.billyandadam.com

Music was produced by Jack Bradley at Blackboard3 Music and Sound Design. It was composed and performed by Richard Royston Jacobs.
http://www.blackboard3.com

The Hustle and Flow of Macro

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:31:33 -0500

George Mason economist and friend Russ Roberts and I have written and are producing a hip-hop song and video about the macroeconomic debate between John Maynard Keynes and F A Hayek. Now, the PBS Newshour has featured a preview of our song via some exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of our studio sessions with Billy and Adam.

Get the full story as well as links to all of the news coverage at my econ blog: butwhattheheldoiknow.com

What can I say? I’m a geek on multiple fronts, including having a passion for economics.

Updated Reel

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:32:38 -0500

Behold. Enjoy.

True Dads WINS 2009 Silver Ogilvy ARF Award

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:17:47 -0400

I am very proud to announce that our True Dads Take Action pro-social campaign has won the Silver Ogilvy ARF Award. The awards were given to the best research-driven creative campaigns and were primarily awarded to national ad agency work driven by large teams, making our small cable effort that much more special.

SEE THE AWARD WINNING CAMPAIGN

This caps off my two year effort as Executive Producer and director of Spike TV’s pro social initiative which also received the 2008 Gold Promax Award for best Network Pro-social campaign.

Congrats to the whole team at Spike including Scott Rosenblit and Matt Stein, my writing partners, and my production crew, especially Heidi Tannenbaum and Mike Tome, my line producers, Pete Konzcal my DP, Henriette Lopez, my production designer and Jesse Ehredt my sound designer. See additional credits on the campaign page.

Congrats as well to Tom Grayman and Kimberly Maxwell who oversaw the research that drove True Dads as well as the team at Insight for their work developing and conducting the research.

For more award winning spots, be sure to check out my Nicktoons Network launch spots Halotainment and Scribblesonic, which won Silver BDA Awards in the very competitive Art Direction for Image Campaign category.

BK “Flame” Spot goes viral

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:52:12 -0500

I had the fortune and absurdist delight of directing a spot featuring The Burger King as he’s never been seen before. The spot is the sole on-air creative in a broader multi-platform campaign promoting BK’s new fragrance, “Flame”. It’s got the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat!

The mad men (and women) at Crispin Porter + Bogusky developed this hilarious promotion/product as part of the broader Whopper campaign and decided to use Spike’s Video Game Awards as the television launch pad.

Working with the CPB team, we built a truly bizarre spot that lead the return to the show from the commercial break. Mirroring the hilarious imagery from BK’s firemeetsdesire.com portal, the King uses his scent to lure a beautiful VGA production assistant into his custom dressing-room/chalet just as she’s about to bring the next award on stage.

The campaign has received some awesome coverage in the media. Bravo to BK and CPB for the successful launch of the weirdest King campaign yet.

CNN COVERAGE
MSNBC STORY
GOOGLE

Visit firemeetsdesire.com