From the Aero News Desk...

Busy busy busy! Take that recession! (I am knocking on wood and throwing salt over my shoulder. Just in case.)

Here are a few tidbits from our news desk:

Aero is proudly displaying artwork from East London artist, Declan McMullan. We’re big art buffs and our Santa Monica office is a great gallery space. So when Declan asked us if we would hang his work, it didn’t take much arm twisting. His last series, a collection of sculptures called “The Ladder Series,” were shown throughout St. John on Bethnal Green Church in London. Apparently, he’s into grand venues! Sure, we’re a tad smaller… but I bet we have nicer light and that we are more convenient to the best sushi restaurant ever (The Hump). I digress… Declan is an amazing artist and we’re honored to show his work. He’s worked with fellow Brit, Tracey Emin, at the Gagosian in LA.

So drop by Aero reception and enjoy!

Declan McMullan's artwork @ Aero.

We are still super excited about our newest family member, Tim Matheson!

Tim Matheson

Please take a look at his reel as he's truly a treasure with an amazing sense for comedic timing, and in true Aero form, can shoot a great action sequence as well!

And last but NOWHERE near least, Aero director, Sam O'Hare, has another short film coming out! After releasing his tilt-shift short, The Sandpit, he was approached by the Coachella Music Festival to create a film this year’s festival in Palm Springs, CA. He spent several days in the desert on the top of many a cherry picker. The film launches on October 1^st at Coachella.com! We'll (obviously) keep you posted on this and post the link when it’s available. Again, big big thanks to Human Music in NY for creating a brilliant score for the film.

"Bird at night" still from Coachella

Okay, time to get back to work and clean up all this salt on my floor. Have a great rest of the week!

Introducing our new director, Tim Matheson!

Tim Matheson, Aero Film, director, damn glad to meet you!

Sorry, I couldn’t resist… Tim Matheson, comedy director and actor has joined the Aero Film roster. You may know him best from his epic roll of Eric “Otter” Stratton from the film Animal House.

His acting career and directing credits will go on for pages… but the latest highlights would be the spots you’ve most likely seen during Mad Men, thinking that the show had returned from its commercial break but instead it was a :60 spot for Unilever. Sorry to trick you, but thank goodness they’re entertaining! The spots feature the crack creative team at (fictional) Smith Winter Mitchell, which is a “slightly less-drunk” version of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. (Emphasis on "slightly.")

In the commercial, the ad team is working on developing creative content for classic Unilever products—Hellmans, Dove, Suave, Klondike, Breyers and Vaseline-- in a very witty and tongue and cheek Mad Man style. Unilever commissioned this work with Stacie Bright (Communications Marketing Manager for Unilever) stating that the goal behind these vignettes is to "aim to make all of our advertising and marketing campaigns relevant for our consumers, engaging with them where they work, live and play with compelling content." (Thanks to TVSquad.com for the quote!) Really, they’re a big DVR buster. Super funny and entertainingly satisfying to the Mad Man watcher.

You can check out all 6 spots HERE!

Aside from the Unilever work, he’s recently been directing TV shows such as Burn Notice, Psych, White Collar and Dirty Sexy Money. The nice people at IMDB can show you the whole list HERE.

Tim obviously brings a huge amount of talent to the table as a director. And if you’re itching for a toga party, he can help out with that too:

TOGA!  TOGA!