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Full-service creative studio Carbon VFX has announced the hiring of Marlo Baird Kinsey as west coast executive producer out of the company’s Los Angeles offices. She will be responsible for overseeing “all aspects of production in Carbon’s L.A. office, including bidding for visual effects, CG, motion graphics, color correction and finishing.”

Marlo joins Carbon VFX with a unique blend of VFX post-production and editorial experience, most recently serving in a production role at The Mission. With over ten years of post-production experience, Marlo has worked as a freelance producer for myriad visual effects studios, production companies, television networks and editorial collectives. She has worked with clients including VW, Nike, and Samsung. Additionally, Marlo has extensive experience working in the worlds of non-profit and political activism, including time as a community organizer for the Barack Obama Campaign. She also serves on the board of the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company.

“It’s a pleasure to welcome Marlo on board to run production ops in L.A. Her experience, versatility and great personality make her the perfect person to build upon the success this office has experienced in the short time we’ve been in this market,” said Frank Devlin, executive producer and partner at Carbon VFX.

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Philly-based independent creative agency, Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners today announced the appointment of Ryan Scott as its first west coast vice president and group creative director. In the newly crated position, Scott will report directly to partners Steve Red (President and CCO) and Steve O’Connell (ECD).

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As we mentioned earlier this week, here is the first of five episodes launching from ADC regarding its Portfolio Night All-Stars. The happenings went on at the ADC Gallery in Chelsea, NY and feature the likes of DDB worldwide CCO, Amir Kassaei. The mission involved? Rethink the Ford Focus. Let’s see what the kids come up with.

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Creative content agency Bonfire Labs continues its growth with the addition of three top-level hires: executive producer Tim Pries, producer John Hunt and designer Judy Leung. The company, which grew by 33% last year, sees the hires as a means “to accommodate burgeoning client demand and enhance its staff infrastructure.”

Executive producer Tim Pries is already a familiar face around Bonfire Labs, having worked with many of the Bonfire crew throughout his career. His most recent collaboration came while he was an executive producer at Google’s Brand Studio. Before that position, Pries served as executive producer at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners’ post/motion division, eLevel, where he worked alongside several Bonfire alums creating work for the likes of TDAmeritrade, Chevy, Sprint, HP, Adobe, Cisco, YouTube, NBA and Comcast. He began his career at the San Francisco based VFX studio, Radium.

John Hunt arrives at Bonfire following eight seasons as a live-action producer on the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters. His resume also includes work on Emmy Award-winning legal drama The Practice, and showson FOX, Animal Planet, and Australia’s Nine Network. In addition, Hunt “has been a presenter on educational programming at the National Science Teachers Association Conference, and produced digital media for Discovery in partnership with General Electric.”

Judy Leung “is accomplished in multiple design disciplines, ranging from graphic design and typography through to photo color correction and retouching.” She has previously worked with the Pacifica Chamber of Commerce, Hyphen Magazine and as a team lead for Minted.

“We are pleased to add these uniquely talented individuals to the roster of talent already at Bonfire Labs,” said Bonfire Labs’ managing director Jim Bartel. “Each of them will make a valuable contribution as we continue to leverage our unique position in the industry.”

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Today we received confirmation that Ann Mack–a former Adweek reporter who worked with JWT for the past ten years, most recently as Director of Trendspotting–will leave the agency for a position on the Facebook team.

Here’s the memo from chairman/CEO Bob Jeffrey on her West Coast relocation:

I have some bittersweet news to share.

After a very successful 10-year run at JWT, Ann Mack will be leaving us at the end of April. She is going west to Silicon Valley and joining Facebook to help build their market insights practice.

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Today we got confirmation that former BBH Labs creative director Tim Nolan is group creative director at Huge as of this week.

We have no official statement or press release (and you didn’t want to read one anyway), but we do have a bit of background: before joining BBH, Nolan worked at JWT for just over a year, contributing to such accounts as Johnson & Johnson.

Prior to the stint at JWT, Nolan worked creative at DUMBO’s HUSH as well as Firstborn and Poke.

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Ogilvy’s NY HQ has given the bump-up to two of its senior creatives as the agency has promoted group creative director Corinna Falusi, who works on IKEA and Coke, to ECD, and creative director Michael Paterson, who works on American Express, to senior partner/GCD. Falusi, you may recall, joined O&M nearly two years ago from StrawberryFrog, where she spent nearly a decade and last served as ECD. Paterson, meanwhile, has been with Ogilvy’s New York office for five years, during which time he’s also worked on the “A Smarter Planet” campaign for IBM as well as efforts for Gap.

From what we’ve been told, the pair isn’t replacing anyone in their respective positions, but are just being promoted “due to their great work and the need for creatives at a higher level.”

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Bicoastal Arcade Edit has strengthened its roster with the addition of editors Jen Dean and Mark Paiva.

Dean joins Arcade Edit from Whitehouse Post, where since 2011 she has honed her skills for brands including Google, New York Times, Cotton, BMW, TJ Maxx and Sprint. She began her commercial editing career under Hank Corwin (Natural Born Killers, Tree of Life) at Lost Planet, where spent almost 12 years. Dean discovered her love of film while studying under legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage at the University of Colorado.

Paiva joins Arcade Edit with over 10 years of experience. Last year alone he worked with agencies including 180 Amsterdam, Droga5, The Corner and Wieden+Kennedy. Back in 2009, he helped found Poster Boy Edit, which recently merged with Toronto-based Saints Editorial, of which Paiva is also a founding member. He was recently honored with the 2013 Craft Award for editing at The Bessies?.?

“Mark is able to visualize the possibilities of a project from the early stages of pre-production to the finished product, and his collaborative nature has attracted a large client base that looks forward to sitting with him in an editing suite and exploring new creative solutions,” said Arcade Edit partner and executive producer, Sila Soyer. “Jen is a natural fit for Arcade. She has a fantastic ability to craft compelling visual stories that engage viewers with poignant emotional resonance. Their respective talents are a valuable addition to Arcade Edit.”

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W+K creatives Matt Moore and Jason Kreher have reimagined the corny popsicle stick jokes of your youth in a dark, hilarious way.

Their project, SchadenFreezers imagines dark, depressing humor in place of the corny puns you’d expect, and the results are often quite funny. The pair created a series of gifs with the different popsicle sayings, which you might describe as anti-jokes. The humor comes from the juxtaposition of the dark, depressing lines in the cheery context of a popsicle stick. “Why was the ghost sad? A lot of different reasons.” should give you an idea of what to expect, although things get considerably darker than that (and occasionally pretty fucked up). There are definitely some misses, but more than enough funny ones to make wading through them worthwhile. We’ve included a few favorites after the jump.  continued…

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Heather LeFevre, the Planning Survey founder who returned to Miami CP+B as a group planning director about a year ago, (she recently got married in the office) was a guest speaker at the offices of Creata London yesterday afternoon.

LeFevre talked about her year traveling around the world, to different agencies in different cultures, which preceded her return to CP+B. She is currently working on a book about the experience, called Strategist Gone Rogue: Pearls of Wisdom Stolen From Around the World. During that year she picked up on different approaches from senior planners around the world and made many observations about the different marketing climates in different countries. Those pearls of wisdom were on display during the talk, something of a preview for the upcoming book. You can read more about Heather and her travels on her blog, “Buy me, I’ll change your life.”

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