In lieu of the annual PIMP party (Party In My Pants), Chase Jarvis Inc. opted to host an awesome shindig to launch the Seattle 100 book and Pop up Gallery. It was a surreal evening: an open bar and meeting everyone from Trent from Head Like A Kite to puppet maker Emmett Montgomery to Bow Jones (motion graphics for Chase’s workflow video) to a guy who curates Fail Blog. My brain is overstimulated with great conversation and caffeine. I probably won’t sleep much tonight and I couldn’t be more pleased. Good times. Enjoy the photos.
Ok, so Nikko from Creativelive is an impostor but I had to shoot this!
Trent from Head like a Kite (above)
Jerard (pictured right) just got back from a journey with Chase in Asia where his shot this video with over 20,000 views.
Tonight was Seattle’s City Arts Fest opening party at Chase Jarvis’ new studio space. There was a gallery preview of the Seattle 100 book and project before a VIP party tomorrow and two days of free public showing. The opening party had large prints hung by team members Scott, Erik and Norton as well as a really cool interactive Ipad and Imac video and still display by Dartanyon. Chase took a great iphone photo myspace style with Senator Jay Inslee, who introduced Chase at the event before running off to meet President Obama at the airport.
On the whole, the party was bustling with great music and food and a barrage of friendly and interesting characters to mingle with. I enjoyed the party before finding like-minded folks to join me in watching Gogol Bordello in Sodo. Goodtimes!
Seattle beckons me again, this time for Chase Jarvis‘ launch of his third book Seattle 100. I was there just a few weeks ago the first time ’round when the intro video (below) was shot. There are some great outtakes that will never see the light of day (think Ron Burgundy of Anchorman). On camera was Erik Hecht, of the CJ Inc. staff. Super cool dude, and now you know what Chase was looking at during the video.
Hong Kong’s street artist, Start From Zero (Show this Friday @ UFO Gallery!) has created a new piece work in my ‘hood. I went out last night with my camera for around 2 hours documenting various street art and the general vibe after being very inspired by a particular shoot happening just off the coast in the South China Sea.
A word on inspiration: Inspiration is when something excites you enough to get off your butt and do something creative (that means creating, making, designing, moving, sounding DOING). If you think you’re inspired but don’t make something of it. that’s just excitement.
The piece riffs off a common construction work sign in which a caricatured worker is apologizing for any inconvenience caused during work (below):
Here are a two images taken nearer, for detail:
If anyone understands the hybrid symbol on the worker’s head, please post in the comments.
One of the cool things about getting to hang with Chase Jarvis and his team is that they’re always working on something new and groundbreaking. The most tantalizing aspect of it is that you must respect the confidentiality agreement you sign. It’s the I-could-tell-you-but-I’ve-have-to-kill-you vibe that’s so exciting. Which is why I can sigh and I’m happy to hear the announcement of the Nikon D7000 and subsequent short film, Benevolent Mischief. Now I can show you this image and properly caption what it is that CJ Inc. was watching (and I was listening to). I knew it had to be something cool, since I heard the virtuosity of Joshua Roman and instantly recognized his cello sound. I was excited to finally see the video was shot using the same “flying chainsaw” as the SE-R Project. You’ll dig it:
In my family, we have had our share of health problems and even recent deaths in the family. Historically, we’ve had addictions and diseases and all sorts of issues we’d not openly share. One day I will die and that’s okay because today I’m happy to say that I’m living life to the fullest. I fly back to Hong Kong from Seattle in about 4 hours. During my time on the West Coast I met some incredible folks like Chase Jarvis and Jasmine Star and reconnected with good friends like Dave Dolengewicz and his girlfriend Lauren. I reconnected with Wayne Mak who lived in Hong Kong and David Alvarado who I went to school with – we even shot a documentary together for one day in the hills of San Francisco. I hung out with Chris Nicholas and Joowan Kim of the Great Integration and photographed their show in the Mission. One of the greatest trumpeters the University of North Texas has seen was miraculously in San Francisco: Evan Weiss along with another great musician (and model!) Gabriela. Laura Trimmell and her boyfriend Donothan aka Diskgrunt and myself spent four days photographing and screen-printing and eating Voodoo donuts in Portland. Those were probably some of the best days of my life. I spent way too much time away from my beautiful and lovely girlfriend Q (who is a squirrel in disguise), but that will soon be solved with just a little bit of time and jet fuel >8< Sure, I’m going broke and I’m trying to hit a grandslam most days now but burning the candle at both ends doing something I love with the people I love feels so much more real than anything else I can think of.
Pictured above: Me and Nikko, volunteers for the laaaate shift at the Jasmine Star Wedding for Creativelive.com in Seattle. We’re overlooking the skyline from West Seattle. Shot at approximately 5:45am
We’re about to be on day three of shooting the Jasmine Star wedding for Creative Live. Chase Jarvis dropped by to introduce the lovely soon-to-be married couple Laura & Billy, and forgot his iconic sunglasses and his Ipad. We kept our hands of the Ipad, but we couldn’t pass up the fun opportunity to put ourselves in someone elses shoes – or eyes in this case – for a few minutes. Enjoy the photos we gathered!
On a sidenote, I chatted (in an official Creative Live capacity) with an amazing photographer from Mexico City who wrote a nice review in Spanish about CL: Michelle Bres.
Yesterday I was in Danang, today I’m in Hanoi, tomorrow I’ll be in Hong Kong and by Monday I’ll be in Seattle. It’s time to hang with Chase Jarvis & Friends.
Feeling lazy got me up and awake to take this short series of photographs. It wasn’t originally for the fstoppers contest, but then I realized I could kill two birds with one stone. The video is just for fun, and I was most pleased with the actual images from the camera.
Model / saxophonist: Oscar Azahar
Also, big thanks to Anthony Miller
Shot in Hong Kong for a contest put on by fstoppers.com
Intro with flashing stills inspired by Hasselblad video Chase Jarvis created
Check out the images for yourself:
The second set is semi-saturated.
We apologize in advance to John Coltrane, who is rolling over in his grave at the sound of my beatboxing
Yesterday (well, 1:30am for me) Chase Jarvis introduced a new way to democratize creativity and education through creativeLIVE – with a revamp to the 1-year old site and big endorsement from Chase, aspiring artists will be able to view some of the top professionals in their field give lessons, broadcast for free. It’s quite an interesting business model. For more info, check out the video below:
