Netflix Recreated a Historic Photo to Showcase the Diversity and Creativity of Black Creators

Netflix dropped an empowering new campaign during tonight’s BET Awards, celebrating the diversity of its black creators and actors, and championing all of the incredible creativity that each actor, director or producer has shared with the world. The streaming service’s latest campaign, “A Great Day in Hollywood,” includes a 60-second TV spot directed by Lacey…

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Police Need Warrant for Phone Location Data, Supreme Court Rules

Police must get a search warrant before obtaining data showing the location of cellphone users, the Supreme Court ruled, the third in a string of decisions that limit law enforcement’s access to the most intimate details of citizens’ digital lives.

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Online Shopping Is About to Get More Expensive

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling enables states to collect sales tax from all online purchases, eliminating the advantage of buying some big-ticket items from websites like Amazon.com.

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VirtualHome: Simulating Household Activities via Programs – Xavier Puig

VirtualHome: Simulating Household Activities via Programs - Xavier Puig
June 21st, 2018 at CVPR2018

Xavier Puig ; Kevin Ra ; Marko Boben ; Jiaman Li ; Tingwu Wang ; Sanja Fidler ; Antonio Torralba
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Nvidia AI Generates Super Smooth Slow Motion Video – Huaizu Jiang

Nvidia AI Generates Super Smooth Slow Motion Video - Huaizu Jiang
June 21st, 2018 – CVPR2018

Super SloMo: High Quality Estimation of Multiple Intermediate Frames for Video Interpolation

Huaizu Jiang ; Deqing Sun ; Varun Jampani ; Ming-Hsuan Yang ; Erik Learned-Miller ; Jan Kautz

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00080
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What the Colonel Wished He’d Brought With Him to Cannes

CANNES, France–The Colonel was here Thursday for a panel on the evolution of the KFC brand, which in no small part is due to the creatives at Wieden+Kennedy. In fact, the Colonel was played by W+K ecd Eric Baldwin, who stayed in character during our post-panel interview. Fellow W+K ecd Jason Bagley and KFC marketing…

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Publicis Memo Thanks Clients for Their ‘Commitment to Creativity’ at Cannes

It was a very different year for Publicis this year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, following the holding company’s decision to refrain from submitting work in order to focus more resources on building Marcel. Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun told Adweek that he was encouraged by the support Publicis received from its clients…

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How to Be Consistently Creative, According to Burger King’s Global CMO

Burger King CMO Fernando Machado and his team of ingenious creatives return from another Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity with a handful of Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Last week, before departing for Cannes, Machado presented a case study of Burger King’s work at our Elevate: Creativity event in New York City. Here, Machado tells…

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