Electric Drama

Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools – with yesterday’s concepts. Youth instinctively understands the present environment – the electric drama. – Marshall McLuhan – from the book The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore …

That’s My Wife!

Don’t be alarmed if I start yelling about my wife – I’m not married – just quoting Harrison Ford.

Up Close and Awesome with Grandma’s Hummingbirds

Monmouth, Easter Sunday. This footage was shot from my grandparents living room pointing out on a lovely field with a hummingbird feeder in the foreground.

New video from “You Who” an awesome new concert series

I recently attended and filmed the second installment of You Who, a Portland concert series for kids. It’s curated by Chris Funk of The Decemberists fame.

SXSW 2009 Recap: On Parade with Pampelmouse

Much to my delight I was given a ride and ticket to South by Southwest this year by the gracious Dave Allen who runs a fantastic music blog called Pampelmoose.

I’m Huge on Public Access: The Era of Truckerspeed

I recently took up producing a 10-episode weekly public access TV show here in Portland which consists of me sitting around with my guests, talking about music videos.

Headset Hotties Featured in Practical Web Design Magazine

One of my websites, http://headsethotties.com, which skewers the overuse of stock photography in today’s design environment, was featured (rather prominently) in an article called “Give Niche a Chance,” in the publication Practical Web Design. I’m not sure exactly what this means, but score one for me!

Old Mini-Project Plus a Video Mishap

I was just poking around on my computer came accross this: It’s not exactly a masterpeice, just something I did over the course of a couple hours with a Wacom tablet sitting in front of Flash, rotoscoping some low res video. What is awesome though is that I am one of the 2 people in …

Instant Rimshot Lands in the Pages of GQ Magazine

It’s not often that websites get mentioned in print, so when my website Instant Rimshot landed in the pages of GQ, you better believe I’m going to blog about it.

World’s Greatest Ghosts in Milwaukie

Episode 18 of the Penny Jam features World’s Greatest Ghosts performing “Magick Words” at Matrix Networks down in Milwaukie (which is Algonquin for “the good land”).

The Narwhal that Almost Wasn’t – Episode 17

Episode 17 of the Penny Jam features Narwhal vs. Narwhal performing “Don’t Take” at Cherry Sprout Produce Market. You would never know watching this that we’d filmed the exact same band in the same location on a Sunday 7 days before. In a twist of random weirdness, our sound engineer, James, had his laptop stolen …

Craig Newmark Likes Instant Rimshot

I was very pleasantly surprised to find an email in my mailbox from none other than Craig Newmark, founder of the ubiquitous Craigslist.org. Turns out he’s a fan of http://instantrimshot.com and wanted to embed it on his blog. Of course I said yes!

Starfucker at Rudy’s Barbershop

It’s that time of the week where I post the new Penny Jam video. This episode was filmed on July 27th but was sitting in our vault just getting better and better. I now present you with Starfucker at Rudy’s Barbershop. The timing worked out fine because Starfucker just left on tour and released their …

500 Frames

I made this in 2005 for a drawing class a the University of Oregon, just found it on my computer the other day so I thought I’d throw it up here. For the assignment, the instructor gave us the freedom to choose what our final project would be. I wasn’t feeling like spending a bunch …

Home Made 3D Images

I’m a huge fan of 3D imagery, so I knucked down and made a few myself.

Free show on July 2nd, Holocene

If you knew what was good for you you’d know about The Penny Jam, the weekly video podcast I produce here in Portland Oregon. We film local bands in unusual places, you’d like it. Anyhow, on July 2nd Holocene is hosting a showing the first 10 episodes of the podcast and 3 of the bands …

Dirty Mittens at Old Portland Hardware

I havn’t posted about the podcast ( The Penny Jam ) lately, so check out this little gem that we filmed a few weeks ago. And stay tuned for our upcoming episodes, Eric John Kaiser in a Yarn store called Yarnia, Sleep on a rooftop and Laura Gibson at OMSI. Now I present you with …

The Penny Jam is online

Well, it’s actually been up for about a month now, but for the sake of documentation and random folks reading this, my new project “The Penny Jam” is viewable at www.thepennyjam.com This is a project Sean and I have been talking about for a while and as planned we shot our first episode at the …