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Client Profile: The Catalogue for Philanthropy
I hesitated in posting this because technically this isn’t a client of mine. I’ll explain. There’s this site called Genius Rocket that puts designers together with clients. I think the idea is interesting, but where it kind of falls flat is, rather than letting the client decide on a designer via a bidding process, the...
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Anymore now with an extremely active family life (read: 6 year old daughter), it’s difficult to pull together time to think through large arrangements. I’ve found it easier to give myself some boundaries and try to help focus what time I do have towards music. After experimenting a bit, I’ve kind of settled on a...
Dropping Some Science
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Steve and I headed up to PDX to go see Edison on his Death Stare Tour. I’d been following Edison on the monome discussion boards for some time, and I really enjoyed his video performances and his two albums. On a whim, I shot him a message on...
Client Profile: I Give A Shirt
Bo Lane of Rethink Monthly Magazine contacted me about putting together a video to promote a local charity movement called I Give A Shirt, Started by Whitney Ferrin. There are many homeless youth in our locality and Whitney found that oftentimes they wouldn’t attend school simply because they don’t have clean clothing or the ability...
Client Profile: Paramount Real Estate Services
A local design outfit Vintom had been tapped to develop a website for a new local business, Paramount Real Estate Services, run by Brian and Nina White. Vin contacted me mid-project about putting together a short video for them to help promote their website. We went back and forth on different ideas and settled on a direct frontal approach,...
Art For The Sake Of Art
I’ve been doing alot of freelance work lately, and something that I’ve been battling for a long time is the idea of the monetization of art. In the early years, it used to drive me crazy actually, but I seemed to have found a sense of balance. That’s not to say, of course, that there aren’t some definite caveats....
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