#quantel paintbox

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring photographed by Tobey Sanford with the Quantel Paintbox, 1986.

[nanotemporary]

Paintboxed World Tour Basel Exhibition

[fredalan]

Amy goes pop!  

Fred/Alan didn't really want to make music videos. Too much work for too little money. Besides, MTV had already given us an amazing, music based, creative reputation. But, it was always tempting. After all, video music was the creative "edge" of the '80s. So, when Richard Frankel, our former WASEC/MTV co-worker, went over to A&M Records and asked us to work with him on “Find A Way,” Amy Grant's first post-Christian pop single... well, we took a shot. 

Through Buzz Potamkin, we'd worked a bit with director Tommy Schlamme on the original "I Want My MTV!" commercials, tried to get a movie going with him and enjoyed his forward thinking approach and genial manner, perfect for working with a musical artist like Amy (and not for nothing, Tommy’s first music video). And, lucky for us, Amy's management was new enough to mainstream video that our MTV reputations made them comfortable enough to work with first time producers. 

By 1985, the Quantel Paintbox video graphics tool was just starting to become "the look of TV in the '80s" –The Cars had just won the first MTV VMA for their Paintbox'd "You Might Think," courtesy of Jeff Stein & Charlex, and Alan's former co-worker and Fred's wife to be, Robin Sloane– and interestingly, both our music video excursions used it extensively, though in radically different ways.  

Tommy took just the right approach to working with Amy, and to the modern world of production design. The video did its job and launched what became an amazing mainstream career for Amy Grant, making it into the Top 40 for her maiden voyage. 

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Directed by Thomas Schlamme  Produced by Linda Schaffer & Albie Hecht  Executive producers: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert Client: Richard Frankel/A&M Records

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[1980th]

[musclesmarinara-blog]

Close, but I don't think this qualifies as being "The Invisible Man."

-Dagina Brown