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It’s been a busy summer for da plumbers!

In anticipation of KORN’s new album KORN III: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE, the team at Frank was brought in to shoot them performing live for air on HDNET and then online on MySpace Music. Directed by Russell Thomas, in collaboration with HDNET, the shoot took place in a cropcirle cut in a wheat field in Bakersfield, CA, the band’s hometown. The seven camera shoot featured two 60′ AKELA cranes, four cameras on sticks and one helicopter shooting aerial stills and video.

As part of the project, Frank also produced a series of web viral videos which ran as a lead up to the show. Directed by Chris Groban, the videos offered up a glimpse at the seemingly random appearance of the cropcirle told from the perspective of a couple out on the road and a local news crew reporting on the strange occurences in Bakersfield.

MySpace Link to Performance

Abduction

Crop Circle

News

News Part II

Nice work, Justin P and team!

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=144495

For their first live show and tour in 3 years, the Plumbers have been brought on to work on the full visual experience, including full stage, show and lighting design, as well as all the screen content! Check em’ out on these live clips from their show at the Isle of Wight Festival!

A great note that came in today from Plumber Lenahan:

Here’s an interesting picture. I’m playing Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver tonight with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The first show of their 2010 tour. There is a tunnel that leads from backstage, under the seats and up to the front of house mix position. Some of you will know it well. There is a lot of graffiti on the walls of that tunnel. Some time ago I started making a note every time I played here with this band. I think I may now have the record as you’ll see from the dates. Others may have been coming here longer or more often, but I think I have done this venue over the most years with the same act.

Justin Purser is on day 3 of shooting two music videos for the Midi Mafia boys, one tied to the Cosmo/Nivea Bikini Bash being held in Vegas for the first time after a multi-year Miami run, and another one for Planet Hollywood. Videos are coming out in early May. Keep a look out. In the meantime, check out the piece that started it all, the Midi Mafia/Planet Hollywood Flash Mob!

Big thank you to the folks at Hearst and Cosmo, Nivea and the folks at Harrah’s and Planet Hollywood for having us out.

Oh yeah, I’m talking about Foreigner.

Their first tour in quite some time kicked off in Texas last week. Alex lead a team of folks to create the animated sequence which opens the show along Juke Box Hero, as well as content for a number of other tunes. Congrats to Michael Keeling and all the folks at Project X, cool stuff!

On Saturday May 1st, the Plumbers and Director John Asher teamed up with Island Def Jam, Kasey of Romance on a Rocketship, and Tabu (the lion) to create the first music video “Skin & Bones” for ROAR. At Monclair Prep School in the Valley, Asher went to town to create this Glee-inspired video where the high school sweetheart falls in love with Kasey, the rocker, while the jock ends up being baited into a room with a lion. John Asher is new to the FRANK roster and has made his mark directing episodes of GOSSIP GIRL and ONE TREE HILL. Ethan the Plumber handled the edit