Haven’t updated this site in ages. Behind the scenes there’s a brand new site coming but of course it’s not ready yet. I’ve cut together a new reel though and did want to get it up here so take a looksie.

My first opportunity to shoot on the RED camera, this was conceived as a single shot that with it’s stark simplicity would feel unique and grab some attention. Of course it was far more complicated to execute than it appears. Shot off speed first full of stuff with the door closing, then multiple takes with the beach ball that was eventually slowed to 80% full speed, then much later in the day shot with the garage empty.

Creatively, once I was brought into the project as the director I realized in order to really sell this as being one moment we had to have some element carry over from the full garage to the empty. We shot a few different elements but ended up using a rubber ball.

Karl, the copywriter on the project, and myself shot a behind the scenes video walking through some of the complicated compositing we pulled off.

This video was put together as part of a pitch for the Portland Timbers. Unfortunately it didn’t go our way but the video was still a fun little piece.

As part of the redesign of our Coates Kokes website we wanted to shoot new portraits of the entire staff that shows them in a sort of light and unique way. We wanted to convey a sense of authenticity and honestly while trying to buck the normal corporate headshot style.

I shot them over a couple days and have been happy with how they’ve turned out. Here’s a few selects from the 19 portraits. Check out the rest of them at www.coateskokes.com/people.

An updated take on the ’07 spot from the Regional Coalition for Clean Rivers and Streams. With a new campaign beginning featuring a series of useful tips for day to day activities we wanted to do a refresh of the PSA spot that was the first project I shot at Coates Kokes. This turns the video into a sort of VH1 style pop-up video and is ended with my favorite part of the project – the new end tag.

Really no budget on this one at all, but I think we’re all really happy with how it came out. It starts airing on Monday.

Seems like it must be audition season. First one for QVC, now one for Redken. Spent a couple nights working with Lilly Huggins in her Salon in downtown Portland and put together this half hour video as an audition reel to become a Redken educator. I am pretty happy about how it turned out considering 48 hour turnaround and trying to make cutting and coloring hair for half an hour interesting. She should have a great chance at the job in that she is a fantastic stylist.

Just a note, the file is huge so give it a moment.

Photo I shot for a 5′ x 5′ rear lit ad placed as you leave the Horizon Air terminal at PDX. Horizon is the leading competition for Portland/Seattle based SeaPort Airlines as they also cater to the quick commute distance traveler, however up until SeaPort the fastest way you could get from city to city took about 3 hours. With SeaPort you can avoid TSA and make the downtown to downtown trek in an hour and a half.

We did a series of TV Spots for The Register-Guard newspaper out of Eugene, Ore. Produced entirely in-house, I shot, edited and did the graphics for them. My Dad was the gaffer for the project, Karl, Martha and I were the creative team.

The assignment was to come up with a photo to go along with an ad making it clear that safety was of the utmost concern to the construction industry. The goal is to prevent accidents from happening at all – better for the workers, better for the businesses – and I was tasked with shooting a photo of the most gnarly looking nail we could get, while still looking realistic.

I think the nail reads pretty well – if anything I might have dodged it a bit too much – and I think it gets the idea across pretty well. Alicia and Karl worked on this one as well.

It was a long process with a few different thoughts being brought forward, but the final piece for the Register-Guard bus wraps in Eugene, Ore. were literal, but clear. I shot the photos and did the final designs, although they were touched by many people along the way.

It’s amazing how even small projects take forever to get done. This short film we put together at Walk Cool Productions was just supposed to be a small couple day project but ended up taking a year to get finished. In the transition from college to “the real world” it just ended up in the backburner.

Regardless it starred Jana Earnshaw, Heather Morley, Myself and Melissa Jakobsen. And of course stellar performances from my Mom and Sister. Never was quite satisfied with how it ended, we reshot it a few times, but still was a fun learning experience to put together.