Una conversación íntima entre dos viejos amigos, Aaron Duffy y Damian Kulash, codirectores del videoclip “The Writing’s on the Wall” en 2014 y de “LOVE” de OKGO en 2025, una de las piezas más ambiciosas audiovisuales que fusiona música, ciencia y experimentación visual. Hablarán sobre el proceso creativo detrás de estas proyectos que van allá de la música y la cinematografía convencional
Aaron Duffy
Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director
SpecialGuest
Aaron Duffy is a co-founder and ECD of SpecialGuest, a creative agency for the world’s most innovative companies. Since creating Google’s first TV commercial, Super Bowl spot, Parisian Love, in 2010, Aaron and his team have continued to reimagine brand storytelling for the likes of Snapchat, Spotify, McKinsey, Rag and Bone, and Meta. Aaron’s origins are in video directing, being cited as one of AdAge’s top 10 directors of 2011 and since then has won an MTV Moon Man for co-directing OKGO’s Writings On The Wall illusions video, been featured on Adweek’s Creative 100, Business insider’s 30 Most Creative in Advertising Under 30, and has work inducted into the MoMA’s Archive for the Art and Technique of the American Commercial. Aaron is also a consistent member of the Papel & Caneta network, a non profit collective of global creative leaders who use creativity to create change in the industry and beyond.
Damian Kulash, Jr.
Lead singer and video director
OK Go
Damian Kulash, Jr. is an artist, musician, filmmaker, and the frontman for the polymath rock group OK Go. He’s directed the band’s long string of boundary-pushing music videos, racking up more than 300 million views online. They’ve danced in zero gravity and on treadmills, they’ve built a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine to run in sync with a song, and they’ve choreographed hundreds of explosions filmed in just a few seconds.
Damian has received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Visual Art, a Grammy, three MTV VMA’s, twenty-one Cannes Lions, three Webby Awards, and has had his work presented at The Guggenheim, MoCA, LACMA, The Hirschhorn, The Hammer Museum, and Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture.
Damian graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1998. He’s written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone, and testified before the US Congress in support of Net Neutrality. He serenaded Barack Obama at his 50th birthday party, appeared on the Simpsons, and Animal from The Muppets once played the drums in his garage. He lives and works in Los Angeles
