Ye Old Portland Matchbooks from Jakes and McCormick & Schmick’s

I have a fishbowl full of matches I’ve picked up at garage sales and estate sales over the years, they are a design object that are evermore rare by the year – yet the format is incredibly pleasing. Here are two I picked out because they are local businesses and clearly designed by the same …

Best Delivery Box Awards

Check out the new delivery boxes my roommate Max made for Grove. Max is a pleasing illustrator, I’ve worked with him a couple of times in the past and his work often has a gleeful element to it. This cross section of the Grove offices is fairly representative. The operation started out in the top …

All this Green Livin is gonna make me Apeshit

My friend Tyler has engaged himself in a song-a-day-for-a-year project – it started in January and now, 9 months in he’s still going strong. When I saw this new one “Green Livin’” it became an instant favorite. Check it out. All of the songs are on Youtube, though they vary in quality and style immensely. …

Trailer Toucan – Our first 24-hour website

When my friend Davey moved back to Portland, his web developer powers had grown immensely. Last time I’d seen him he wasn’t even a developer at all, but now he knew what was up. So while we were sitting on my front porch drinking beers and bullshitting we decided to do some quick project together …

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 …

New Bamboo iPhone case from Grove

I’m not normally one to engage in the act of gadget blogging but this is too close to home not to get excited about – I just got my first bamboo iPhone case from Grove! Grove is a Portland-based company…it’s owned and operated by my friends Joe and Ken. I’ve watched Grove grow at impressive …

The World’s Largest Aquarium

the world’s largest aquarium // ATL.GA from stillmotion on Vimeo. Check out this great video made by the folks at Stillmotion. The song is by a great Portland band called the Dimes. We did a Penny Jam episode with the Dimes at St. Cupcake and I like to keep up with them. Check out the …

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.

Headset Hotties is now it’s Own Standalone Site

After getting such an enthusiastic response to the “Headset Hotties” portion of this blog, I recently spun it off into it’s own standalone site!

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!

Double Your Dolliver, Double Your Fun

Welcome to episode 16 of the Penny Jam. We filmed this episode during first Thursday, on Sept 4, a date and time requested by EWF Modern owner Rene Russo (not the movie star). It turned out pretty well as we got some intro footage of the foot traffic on a busy street in the Pearl, …

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 …

Derrek Wayne at Immortal Piano

This here is a real pretty episode of the Penny Jam. We filmed this one back on July 6th, and aside from filming Starfucker (the next episode) we had a really slow production schedule this summer. I really love the light and color in this episode, it fits the music quite nicely. Martha, the owner …

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.

Rex Mattress Never Sleeps

This one is pretty crazy, a demented Portland crooner who goes by the name Mattress, gyrating wildly atop a railroad footbridge. And that would be episode 13 of the Penny Jam, Mattress at the Lafayette Footbridge. If you visit that link you’ll be able to read a little more about the crazy shoot that we …

Gibson v. Dinosaur

Hey there friends. We just yesterday put up episode 12 of the podcast (The Penny Jam) and it’s a beauty — Laura Gibson at OMSI. Through a series of fortunate events we ended up with the keys to the castle, access to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the folks there were very nice …

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 …

The Penny Jam EP 10 – Eric John Kaiser in Yarnia

It’s hard to believe that we’ve already got 10 episodes of the Penny Jam out. We’ve actually filmed 13 now – Sleep, Laura Gibson and Mattress are in the editing phase. We were really happy with how the following episode turned out, Eric kindof tricked us into doing a 2 song set but we didn’t …

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 …

March of Coats

In the spirit of the Whiteman Brother’s short film a day for the month of February, and my cousin’s photo-a-day for a year project that recently ended, today I begin “March of Coats,” where I wear a different coat or sports jacket every day this month. I’ve been talking about a month of coats since …

Davey’s new Tattoo

Designing a tattoo was not something I’d planned so I didn’t take it lightly when the assignment came along.

Bowl Job

When you work with graphic designers, weird shit happens. This is the company bowling shirt. I didn’t design it but I’m a proud wearer.

Instant Rimshot is all grows up now

After being included in Jason Kottke‘s list of “Single Serving Sites” on Tuesday http://instantrimshot.com saw a burst of traffic. The next day, February 20th, was a historic day for the little site, the first day it peaked 1000 unique visitors (1248 according to Google Analytics.) Sure, this isn’t really that much in the grand scheme …

Get Tripped Out On My Animated .gif

My roommate Joe took these photos with his fancy new flash.

Some Estate Sale Maps

When I decide to go Estate Saling, I make a plan to visit three to six in a day. Then I draw it out on paper.

Why Germany Loves David Hasselhoff

My coworker (my boss actually) Mario Schulzke participated in Ignite Portland‘s second showcase at the Bagdad theater on February 5th where he gave a presentation titled “Why Deutschland Loves David Hasselhof.” Turns out that Ignite is so popular that you have to get there about an hour before it starts to even get in, which …

The Whiteman Brothers produce 29 films in 29 days

A couple of my best home-boys from Monmouth have been making movies for a while now, and this month they’ve been working on a project where they create a short film a day every day. You can check out the project at http://whitemanbrothers.com/pages/febfilms.html Since it is a leap year, that’s 29 short films that are …

The First Sneeze

Back a few winters back I was consistently plagued by a sneeze-inducing air. I began sampling scientific data to plot the time of my malaise.

InstantRimshot.com is a questionable name

So after having a series of conversations with some coworkers I launched instantrimshot.com last week. The site provides easy access to a “rimshot’ sound effect for use in comedic situations. The only downside is that only a small percentage of people I talk to, even those who I consider to be pretty smart, know the …