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Bikink Bandits in Movie Maker Magazine
The do's and don'ts of gaining a (great) reputation on the festival circuit.
Marketing is the message. So says Steven Grasse, director of the direct-to-video Bikini Bandits series. In the opinion of Grasse, "As filmmakers, we suck; but as promoters, we"re great."
Quaker City Mercantile (formerly known as Gyro Worldwide) Marches to the Rhythm of the War Drums
Quaker City Mercantile, Philadelphia, launches guerilla-marketing assault during the Republican National Convention.
Blurring the lines between art and commerce, Quaker City Mercantile (formerly known as Gyro Worldwide) created an animated music video for multi-platinum selling band, "A Perfect Circle". The video is for the song "Counting Bodies Like Sheep Marching to the Rhythm of the War Drums". The track features Danny Lohner from Nine Inch Nails and appears on A Perfect Circle's new album eMOTIVe, released on Virgin Records November 2nd.
Quaker City Mercantile's (formerly Gyro) Steven Grasse is Advertising's Angry White Man
Catch a glimpse of Steven Grasse's mug in MTV's pimped out "Real World" house.
Steven Grasse's high-school rock band, Hair Club for Men, never made it big, but that doesn't mean the bass guitarist turned adman won't get face time on MTV.
Quaker City Mercantile (formerly known as Gyro Worldwide) energizes Mid-Atlantic agency scene
It's long been a sore point that many companies in Philadelphia seem to look elsewhere to find an advertising agency, overlooking the hometown talent.
One of those "elsewheres" is Texas. And one of those agencies is the Richards Group, which last year snagged Wawa and, in May, Comcast Corp.'s telephone advertising. Not far away, in Austin, GSD&M is among six agencies vying for the Subaru of America account, now handled by TM Advertising (formerly Temerlin McClain) in Dallas.
Quaker City Mercantile (formerly known as Gyro Worldwide) Gets 'Dew'-ed Up to Build a Soda's Hipster Cred
Philly Shop helps Mountain Dew target with retro T-Shirts.
After years of exhorting consumers to "Do the Dew," PepsiCo's Mountain Dew has enlisted Quaker City Mercantile (formerly known as Gyro Worldwide) to Dew some duds. It's familiar territory for an ad agency whose own clothing lines have blossomed into brands with downtown cred.
Steven Grasse Announces the World's First Ever Full-Length Flash Animated Feature Film . . .
Steven Grasse Announces the World's First Ever Full-Length Flash Animated Feature Film - The Bikini Bandits Save Christmas - The Sequel to the 2002 Raindance Festival Hit, Only this Time it's a Feel Good Holiday Movie.
Unless the Lil'Pimp movie beats us to market (which I don't think it will, its been sitting here like a turd on a shelf for the past 24 months), Bikini Bandits Save Christmas will be the first feature-length flash animated movie ever released. It will also be the first movie released from our newly formed production company Fuck Hollywood Productions.
