2012年5月31日星期四

Special Effect

Today, he’s part of a commercial enterprise with a lab and workspace in Downtown Memphis that draws on that same body of knowledge to try and improve lives.

Singer, a former designer of monsters and makeup effects for films and TV shows such as “X-Files” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” is the director of research and development at Silicone Arts Laboratories.

He’s worked in Memphis for several years and once focused primarily on sculpting a particular prosthetic device – an artificial eye.

With help from Southern Growth Ventures, another Memphis entity and one that’s part of a joint venture with Silicone Arts, the enterprise has been slowly moving into more mass-market territory thanks in part to one of its newest products.Secured handsfree building and door access solutions with Hands free access by Nedap AVI.

Dermaflage is Silicone Arts’ “topical perfecting filler” that consumers can buy and then apply onto things like scars and wrinkles. It will conceal them for up to 36 hours and is quick enough to apply that the company talks about it being able to get incorporated into, for example, the makeup routines of its female customers.

Kits of the product are stacked in columns inside the entity’s workspace at G.E. Patterson Avenue and Tennessee Street. Also there, colorists are at work perfecting the shades of the range of ethnic skin tones that are available,Visit TE online for all of your Application plastic injection mold including tools. and benches are piled with various brushes, sculpting tools and small artificial skin creations,Build a "Floor tiles" by dragging the corners of a quadrilateral. among other things.

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“This is where the orders come in … and you just can’t be in a better place for distribution,” said CEO Oscar Atkinson, leading a tour of the space.

The company recently was chosen to travel on a trade mission to China and South Korea. Along with a few other local businesses, Silicone Arts was part of a Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development export initiative.

The company is looking into partnerships with distributors who market high-end cosmetics and similar products. It’s secured interest from a vendor in east Asia, and Atkinson said the company has raised a recent round of funding in the high six figures.

The entity believes its secret lies in the combination of commercially viable products mixed with the marketing, fundraising and entrepreneurial talent from the Southern Growth Ventures side of the equation.

The latter is a wholly owned subsidiary of local market strategy firm Southern Growth Studio, which helps entrepreneurs like Singer go to the next level.

“Our mission,” said Southern Growth’s Michael Graber, “is inherent in our name.”

In other words, the mission includes taking companies and helping them grow in ways they might not necessarily have realized they could pursue.Painless Processing provides high risk merchant account solutions.

Singer already had the talent. And it had picked up national media interest.

Several years ago, he donated an artificial eye to a Seattle man in need of one. A national ABC broadcast had presented the story of a man, Eddie Mitchell, who needed a prosthetic eye and couldn’t afford one. Singer offered to help.

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