love to love you

We thought we'd kick off this blog post in true Valentine style with Donna Summer and 'Love to Love You'. You might remember we blogged about this last year when Remo Camerota had just directed the spot. 

Well it's just been named as one of the best visual artist-directed music videos of all time! 

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A more unconventional take on the usual V-day message is Calum Macdiarmid's new short film / music video for new London band Three Laws. Liquid Spirit features a beautiful invisible woman who haunts an elderly church caretaker. 

The film is a twist on the traditional horror format, and plays on the fact that not all spirits are frightening. It was shot on Red Epic over two days on location in a North London church and a green screen studio. 

You can watch the film HERE

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Klaus Thymann has had a very busy few months. He's been filming a short documentary on Recife's street kids. The film goes live on the 17th Feb after an in-house launch at BBH today (check twitter for a live update from the Gunners at BBH at around 5pm) 

We can't give much more away just yet, but follow us on twitter / Facebook and look out for the release on Monday! 

Klaus has also just been featured in Creative Review for his photos documenting a whole town. 

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In other news... we sent Andy Morahan off to LA and Vegas to shoot a commercial for Virgin's new casino venture. 

'Virgins Welcome' was commissioned by Beta London and uses Andy's iconic Rock & Roll style to bring this spot to life. 

You can watch it HERE

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We're going to try and start including a favourite restaurant / cafe / place / thing to see in each post from now on. Seeing as the Gunners are all over the world, we're hoping we can start sharing things from our travels! 

This week we've got a suggestion from EP Jane Gershfield who recently popped across the pond to New York. 

She's declared KeKo Café on 121 Madison Avenue as her new go-to place for coffee, tea or brunch. 

Jane recommends their Tunisian Breakfasts & to drop in for a cup of tea or coffee in the afternoon to sample their amazing cakes. 

Maybe if you're in The City for V-day you can treat your other half. 

p.s. if you've got any great suggestions of places to go and things to eat then let us know via a comment on this post! 

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Now to get your Valentines off to a smooth start, whether you're out with your partner or off to party with the singles... put this on and start your weekend the right way.

The Gunners x  

a festive farewell… (updated)

(well farewell until 2014)… 

With the end of the working year in sight we're winding down with one final blog post for 2013. 

To kick this post off we're so excited to announce that Timothy Allen has just been awarded Travel Photographer of the Year 2013! His beautiful B&W images of the mud mosque replastering festival, and Dogon life in Mali along with his studies of individuals in Wales and Bhutan scooped the contest's highest award. 

If you'd like to read more about it and see more of Tim's amazing photographs you can click here 

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GG director Shearer has just shot this spot for Nike for the new Ordem football. In the film Rooney and McIlroy exchange impressive shots over the course of 18 holes - with Wayne using the new Ordem football. 

In the playful spot Rooney surprises McIlroy at the first tee by bringing out the new Ordem ball, which is inspired by the golf ball design. The film has amassed over 1.6 millions hits since its release less than 2 weeks ago. You can watch the film on youtube.

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As far as awards go we're excited to say we've won Mobile Campaign of the Year at the Shots Awards for Nike Hypershield.

Here it is looking lovely in our Camden office (next to our Gold LIA)! 
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LA based GG director Remo Camerota who signed with Great Guns earlier this year has ended 2013 on a high, he's just been commissioned by Verve Music Group to direct a music video to celebrate legendary disco diva Donna Summer's new album. 

With Remo's experience in modern street art, his aim was to create an art piece that could be painted on walls, put into animation or made into t-shirts and posters - basically something that could be used anywhere. 

The project was overseen by Randi Wilens who represents Great Guns in the USA for music videos and it proved so successful that the record label specially requested Remo to design the poster image from the animation elements of the promo.  

You can check it out here

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GG director Klaus Thymann has just come back from Brazil where he's been working on an exciting new project (keep an eye out for it in early 2014). He has also just had Project Pressure featured in The World Photography Organisation's magazine.

If you haven't already heard about Project Pressure you can read about it here and watch a film on it at the end of the feature. (pages 60 to 67)  

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Our EP Jane has nipped off to Courchevel to judge at the Cristal Festival. We're only a little bit jealous… just look at that view! 

UPDATE!! We are proud and very excited to announce that we won a Silver Cristal for Calum Macdiarmid's THE FARM book trailer for Tom Rob Smith's new book The Farm, along with the GRAND CRISTAL for Ilya Naishuller's Bad Motherfucker! 

Here's the silver cristal award next to our Gold Ciclope's award for Bad Motherfucker. (GRAND CRISTAL has yet to arrive so we will post a picture when we receive it) 

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And as you all know by now we like to round up our updates with a bit of fun & thats exactly what we got up to at our Christmas party last week. 

We had a lovely 3 course meal at The Prince Albert (our favourite Camden pub). It was an afternoon filled with food, laughter and wine and the perfect start to Christmas! 

(confession: this photo was from last year as we all forgot our cameras!) 

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and check back in 2014 for more Gunner's news and updates!