the visual mercenary group is proud to announce the launch of the 2009 MPA Kelly Awards Gallery.  for those of you who voted on MPA’s America’s Favorite Ad at mag-ads.com, the people choice winner has also been announced. at the kelly site you can view all the winners, inspiration videos from the creative teams behind the work, judges’ insights, and case studies from the winning ads. the winning team took home $25,000. there’s some pretty good stuff to check out there.

this is the third year that we’ve helped MPA develop the kelly awards site and the first that we designed and built the polling site at mag-ads.com. additionally we created print and banner ads based on the look and feel of mag-ads. this was truly a multimedia assignment spanning LAMP application design and development, print, video, audio, and flash animation & programming. we love working on this kind of integrated media stuff.

so how did your picks fare with the industry judges at kellyawards.org?

niko and mini virus

the visual mercenary group spent the past weekend in the suburbs of columbus, ohio shooting a small documentary video. we can’t really tell you what it’s about yet, but let’s just say that it involves an irish guy, a vertically challenged wrestler and a one-armed man. i’ll tell you…you just can’t make this shit up, art does imitate life. we’ll keep you informed of the progress.

just a few shots from our latest shoot for cult360…

dave directs the talent

helping us out, behind the camera in the following shot, was our friend tal from flike productions. also shown is joe jelic from cult 360 - looking at the preview monitor -  and our favorite make up artist susan donahue. this time around we used bravo studios in nyc. it’s a pretty nice facility with a good group of folks working there. they were very helpful throughout the day with anything we needed. we’ll post the clip soon.

visual mercenary group shoot at bravo studios