Photograph by Angela Boatwright
Photograph by Angela Boatwright
The geek darlings behind Syyn Labs have created feats of fancy for the likes of Google, Disney, and the band Ok Go. Now it's time for their biggest challenge yet: Create a business from their techy passion projects.
Photograph by Angela Boatwright
"We're a sensationalism service," says Brent Bushnell.
Ask cofounder Adam Sadowsky and he says, "We're a one-stop production company: We make physical art that moves people."
"We want to be the 'engineering is cool' group," Bushnell adds.
Another cofounder, Eric Gradman, sums it up this way: "We're a glorified drinking club with an art problem."
Syyn Labs, the art collective/budding company that Bushnell, Sadowsky, Gradman, and four others founded last year at Barbara's bar at the Brewery Art Colony in Los Angeles, is all that and more. It's the best of what happens when a bunch of nerds, including...
Photograph by Angela Boatwright
The geek darlings behind Syyn Labs have created feats of fancy for the likes of Google, Disney, and the band Ok Go. Now it's time for their biggest challenge yet: Create a business from their techy passion projects.
Photograph by Angela Boatwright
"We're a sensationalism service," says Brent Bushnell.
Ask cofounder Adam Sadowsky and he says, "We're a one-stop production company: We make physical art that moves people."
"We want to be the 'engineering is cool' group," Bushnell adds.
Another cofounder, Eric Gradman, sums it up this way: "We're a glorified drinking club with an art problem."
Syyn Labs, the art collective/budding company that Bushnell, Sadowsky, Gradman, and four others founded last year at Barbara's bar at the Brewery Art Colony in Los Angeles, is all that and more. It's the best of what happens when a bunch of nerds, including...
- 1/11/2011
- by Chuck Salter
- Fast Company
A great Charlie's Angels (2000) (photos) mystery was almost solved in the new film - but it ended up on the cutting room floor. David Paris, a Scottish stunt co-ordinator, was plucked from obscurity to play reclusive boss Charlie Townshend - who was never actually seen onscreen in the hit 70's TV show - in the movie. He was working on helicopter sequences for the new film when Angels star Drew Barrymore (photos) suggested he take the role of Charlie. David says, "I was completely amazed. I thought it was a wind up, but once it sunk in, I thought they were out of their minds. The good thing was no-one had ever seen Charlie before, so I had absolutely nothing to live up to. The last scene was me picking up the Angels by helicopter, turning to face the camera and winking. Obviously the director thought better of using this in the final cut."...
- 11/13/2000
- WENN
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