During my tenure at Betabrand, I rarely had time to scout locations for shoots as our release schedule moved extremely quickly. Because of that, we scheduled shoots based model availability and the time of day to capitalize on natural lighting conditions. If we needed a specific setting, I’d use Google Read more…
Mt. Hood is one of our favorite places, and one of the main reasons we relocated back to the Portland area, so its been both an honor and pleasure to have the Clackamas County Tourism Development Council/ BPN as a client. My photo of Inga Beck and her Santa Read more…
It takes a special occasion (for most) to don a tuxedo, much less a tux made from disco ball fabric. It also takes a rockstar personality to head out in public head-to- toe ensconced in the shiny material, as it’s guarantied to get the stare down from everyone passing by, which Read more…
While heading to a downtown San Francisco location for a Betabrand shoot, we came across major traffic on Folsom Street. It was from a massive blaze, with fire trucks coming in from everywhere. I’ve never actually seen a serious fire before— it was intense stuff. Just found SFGate coverage on it Read more…
We recently jumped back into the world of gaming with the purchase of a new Xbox 360 Kinect bundle. As a Mac user, I am a big fan of all things Mac- the stuff just works. Maybe they didn’t coin it, but they have certainly defined plug and play in Read more…
When I redesigned my personal site, I didn’t add a portfolio of the personal work I’ve done on canvas since most of it is over two years old. Although I can’t track down a lot of my files, I figure the work at least deserves a blog post. Most of Read more…
Fred Cuthbert is a bicycle frame builder based in Talent, Oregon, and the proprietor of Wolfhound Cycles. Fred focuses on creating high-end boutique custom mountain and road bicycles. Each frame is meticulously hand-crafted and designed to fit each owner. He needed a landing page website created in time for a Read more…
A short video edit I filmed and put together of the pump track I built in Astoria, Oregon. We had some good times on that little piece of soil. The music track is “Six Million Doesn’t Buy Much Anymore” by Scomber, sourced from ccMixter.
For this quick sketch I had fun with the pencil tool in Illustrator and my Wacom tablet, emulating the drawing style from the film A Scanner Darkly.
Last week I did a few drawings of bike tools in the sketchbook and painted them in photoshop for a project. This week I decided to draw them as vector drawings (using Adobe Illustrator) for more of an infographic approach. Only a huge bike geek would have this much fun Read more…